The KBC Hospital Section meets online from 12:00 – 1:00 pm on the 4th Thursday of odd-numbered months (Jan., March, May, July, Sept., Nov.).
To join, simply register for the reoccurring meetings and download the meetings to your calendar. You will receive meeting agendas, reminders, and notes which include access to the meeting recordings.
Resources:
- Fourth Trimester Project Postpartum Toolkit:
- Postpartum Care Plan
- Postpartum Planning Tool (In Spanish)
- Postpartum Visit Checklist (In Spanish)
- Health Information One-Pager for Birthing Parent (In Spanish)
- Health Information One-Pager for New Baby (In Spanish)
- Taking Care of You booklet (In Spanish)
- Birth Control After Baby Booklet (In Spanish)
- Maternity Care Practices & Breastfeeding Intentions at One Month Among Low-income Women (Pediatrics, April 2022)
- Providing Breastfeeding Support: Model Hospital Policy Recommendations (California, 2022)
- Hospital Breastfeeding Policy Resources (California, 2022)
- High 5 for Mom & Baby – “Practice Sheets” with resources and ideas to implement the 10 “High 5” maternity care practices
- Baby-Friendly USA:
- Voices of Black Mothers: The Baby-Friendly Experience Fact Report (Uzazi Village, Missouri)
- EHR/EMR Self-Assessment Tool: Breastfeeding Data Collection
- mPINC Ten Steps Assessment Tool (CDC)
- Kansas 2022 Hospital Practices Report (mPINC)
- Discharge Protocol Assessment Tool (USBC)
- Optimizing Postpartum Care (ACOG)
- Breastfeeding Friendly Physician’s Office (ABM)
- Breastfeeding Metrics: Core Measures and Performance Planning (CBC webinar)
- Implementing Skill-Based Breastfeeding Competency Training (CBC webinar)
- Opiate Exposed Neonate & Breastfeeding Promotion & Support (Betty Thomas, 2020 conference session)
- Talking with families about formula supplementation:
- “Doing Both” – Sample Responses for hospital staff
- Sample Scripts for Informed Decision Making
- Informed Decision Making: Having Meaningful Conversations Regarding Infant Feeding – includes scripts for responding to parents questions about breastfeeding while in the hospital after birth
- Informed Decision Making video series – short 6-minute videos demonstrating how to talk with parents about common issues in the prenatal and early days postpartum such as:
- Supporting the Breastfeeding Mother Who Is Requesting Formula
- Deciding to Supplement with Formula
- Medical Need to Supplement with Formula
- Supporting the Formula Feeding Mother
- A nation‐wide study on the common reasons for infant formula supplementation among healthy, term, breastfedinfants in US hospitals (Matern Child Nutr. 2021;e13294.)
Hospital Staff Education:
- Breastfeeding University (CGBI) – 4 modules, 2 hours total, online
- Supporting and Promoting Breastfeeding, Chestfeeding and Lactation in Healthcare Settings – training series includes modules for healthcare professionals working to support breastfeeding/chestfeeding in prenatal hospital/birthing, and postpartum settings.
- Breastfeeding | Human Medicine Interprofessional Education (IPE) – 3 hours of FREE education for physicians and others who care for families, from CHEERS, 2022
- High 5 for Mom & Baby online training – 15 1-hour modules, FREE, search “Kansas Breastfeeding Education” on KS TRAIN
- Color-Filled Breastfeeding: Clinical Lactation Training Program – Kansas-based program to provide access to clinical lactation training hours for those qualifying to sit for the IBLCE exam.
- Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth online training FREE evidence-based implicit bias program for perinatal providers (CA)
- EMPower Digital Training Tool (CGBI) – 8 modules to help prepare you for training others in your facility
- Together for the Duration – evidence-based formal breastfeeding education for all staff working with pregnant, postpartum mothers and their breastfed infants, delivered through a series of 15 online courses, offering a total of 15 L-CERPs. These online learning courses provide detailed information and education about breastfeeding best practices and implementation in the hospital setting. These courses are designed to provide a comprehensive look at breastfeeding practices, to promote a holistic approach which, when adopted, will align with the Maternity Care Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) survey as well as the main pillars of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI), a ten-step program designed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). (from Arizona Department of Health Services, AZ Health Zone, and the Arizona WIC Program).