Breastfeeding Immediately After Birth Online Course(s) & Continuing Education
Access the latest clinical skills and research for Breastfeeding Immediately After Birth for Lactation & Breastfeeding professional training. These Breastfeeding Immediately After Birth online courses provide practice-changing skills and valuable perspectives from leading global experts. This Breastfeeding Immediately After Birth education has been accredited for a variety of CEUs / CERPs and can be accessed on-demand, at your own pace.
Establishing Breastfeeding and Bonding in the Post COVID Hospital Setting
Tanya Singleton is a registered nurse with over 40 years of experience in Maternal-Child nursing as a Labor and Delivery nurse, certified in High-Risk Perinatal nursing, an IBCLC lactation consultant and Lamaze childbirth educator. She retired as United States Army Nurse Corp officer in 2003 and began working in private practice as a lactation consultant and childbirth educator. She has run several community non-profits in the Fredericksburg, Virginia area that dealt with issues related to women's and children's health promotion and illness prevention. She is immediate past Chair of the State of Virginia Breastfeeding Advisory Committee, and is currently Chair of Postpartum Support Virginia Board of Directors.
Tanya is committed to quality education and lifelong learning, and has taught maternal-child and pediatric nursing to students in the Rappahannock Region of Virginia, sharing her various clinical anecdotes in classroom and in labs. She is an advocate for equity in maternal healthcare for women of color and early detection of perinatal mood disorders. She is owner and proprietor of The Baby Whisperer, providing in-home support in childbirth education, breastfeeding and parenting.
She is the mother of a blended family of five adult children and Nana to four.
Topic: Establishing Breastfeeding and Bonding in the Post COVID Hospital Setting - [View Abstract]
Topic: How to be Part of the Solution: The Effects of Intergenerational Trauma on Perinatal Persons of Color - [View Abstract]
Since the beginning of recorded birth experiences, babies have been placed in their mother's arms immediately after birth. At the turn of the 20th century, hospital births began to become the norm, and "sterile" procedures removed the immediacy of this critical juncture. What does 21st century hospital birth hold in this post-pandemic healthcare environment? ? How do we promote, protect and enhance the birth experience in Labor and Delivery to support bonding and breastfeeding?
