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Time to First Expression | Improving Lactation Outcomes: Early Strategies for Pre-term Mothers

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Overview
Receipt of mother’s own milk (MOM) significantly reduces the risk of prematurity related complications known to increase cost of care and vulnerability to chronic illness, re-hospitalization, and developmental delay in a dose-dependent manner. Unfortunately, mothers of preterm infants are at high risk of producing insufficient amounts of MOM to provide high dose MOM feedings until discharge and beyond, thus limiting MOM associated protection. The first few days and weeks postpartum are critical for mammary gland programming and predict long-term lactation success underscoring the critical need for strategies beginning soon after delivery to optimize lactation outcomes. This presentation will provide an overview of current evidence regarding strategies in the early post-partum period including timing of pumping initiation after delivery. In addition, an overview of best practices to improve lactation outcomes in mothers of preterm infants will be presented.

Learning objectives
1. Describe the most recent research regarding time to initiation of breast pumping after delivery.
2. Understand early strategies to improve lactation outcomes in mothers of preterm infants.
3. Describe best practices for lactation support during the first days postpartum.

Event details

Date 26 June 2024

Time 1:00-2:00pm CDT

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This program has been approved for 1.0 Contact Hours; provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #13692

Dr. Leslie Parker’s research involves nutritional support of the premature infant with an emphasis on breastfeeding infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). She has been funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research to study (1) the risks and benefits of routine gastric residual aspiration and evaluation in very premature infants and (2) the optimal timing of initiation of milk expression following the delivery of a very premature infant. She recently received a 2018 Research Opportunity grant to study strategies to increase lactation success in mothers of extremely premature infants. She received a UF Term Professorship award in 2017. Dr. Parker is board-certified as a neonatal nurse practitioner by the National Certification Corporation. She has an active practice as a neonatal nurse practitioner in the NICU at UF Health