Advanced Breastfeeding skills for doulas

Trainers: Sue Saunders and Lyn Scazafabo (Lactation consultants)

• Cheshire: 7 June 2008 - Macclesfield

Places are limited. This course focuses on supporting women and their newborns, and is very much a follow on to what you have learned in the Nurturing Birth doula course. It is more practical with effective demonstrations and in-depth discussions and presentations of key breastfeeding themes for new mothers.

Cost is £50 for Nurturing Birth trainees and DUK members. As part of the certification process for Nurturing Birth trainees, the course (and certification) is £60. The course is £70 for others.

Would you like one of these courses near you ? Get in touch and we will do our best to organise a course. It is also a perfect opportunity to meet local doulas.

These courses are suitable for PREP and CERP.

Interested? Contact us for an application form.

Sue Saunders has been specialising in breastfeeding, lactation and human milk feeding since becoming an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant in 1989, and she has a background in breastfeeding counselling, midwifery and nursing. She qualifies her varied experience in both hospital and community settings, in Western Australia, West Africa and England as 'empowering and challenging'. She has been teaching breastfeeding and lactation to health care professionals and parents for the past 18 years both by facilitating courses and running breastfeeding consultations.

Lyn Scazafabo has been Women and Children's Health Nurse for 35 years and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant since 1994. She is the mother of 5 and grandmother of 7. her clinical experience includes working in both the acute care setting and the community. She founded the Breastfeeding resource Center at the University for Medicine and Dentistry in Camden, new Jersey (UMDNJ). After coming to England to research her family history in 2000 she fell in love with the Kent countryside and applied for a job as an infant Feeding Advisor with the NHS. Lyn has worked in this role in both East and West Kent. In addition to being a Registered Professional Nurse, Lactation Consultant and Childbirth Education Instructor Lyn has organized breastfeeding conferences for UMDNJ, developed and taught multidisciplinary courses on lactation management to health care professionals and offered breastfeeding classes to childbearing families both in the USA and in England.