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Post by Marena Burnett on Aug 10, 2018 8:29:15 GMT -5
Please share what you are doing in your Centering groups to inform, guide and support breastfeeding. Would love to hear and learn from all of you.
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starrrivera
GA - Centering Georgia
Posts: 23 
I work at a: Healthcare Facility
My job role is: Staff
I am interested in Centering because: As a military spouse myself, I can see the HUGE benefit Centering has to our expectant moms who are often many miles from home with no friends or family nearby! I feel like the Centering model is a perfect fit for our environment!
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Post by starrrivera on Aug 17, 2018 9:36:51 GMT -5
Our LC's came up with the idea to create posters about various breastfeeding topics. The L&D and MBU were required to each make their own, while the OB clinic was split into pairs to make them. Other departments made some as well (peds, nutrition, etc) They were voted on by other staff members and prizes were given out. (Because who doesn't love a little friendly competition?) They are now spread out and displayed within the hospital and clinics. Several of them are in our Centering room and they have become a great conversation starter for our groups! This is the one I made for our group:  The information sections speak about how skin to skin can improve breastfeeding rates and why!  |
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Post by Marena Burnett on Aug 17, 2018 13:13:04 GMT -5
Love this creative idea! Thanks for sharing.
Other suggestions?
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Stefanie G.
MI - Michigan Centering Consortium
Posts: 39
I work at a: Healthcare Facility
My job role is: Healthcare Provider
I am interested in Centering because: I am the new CenteringPregnancy Nurse Lead for a large OB/midwife office in Southwest Michigan.
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Post by Stefanie G. on Aug 23, 2018 9:01:40 GMT -5
We had a local latch on event that we advertised to our patients with posters in our Centering room and in all the clinic rooms. We also have an IBCLC from our local health department who comes to speak during Session 3 (and brings a goodie bag for all the moms!) and the IBCLC from the hospital comes during Session 9. They get lots of great info on support and who to contact if they're struggling. They also get info on how and where to get their breastpumps, including which medical supply locations carry which pumps and the differences in quality of those pumps. Unfortunately, with our mostly inner-city, low income, African American population, not a lot of moms breastfeed beyond their time in the hospital or the first couple weeks. Our local health department is working hard to get a mom of color as one of their peer breastfeeding counselors. The providers and myself all feel like it's an uphill battle. They just don't see it in the community, they are very much indoctrinated in the culture of just how sexualized breasts are, and they don't have the family/community support they truly need. But we're not giving up! Our one OB actually brings her nursing toddler to our Celebrations to try to show them just what "extended" breastfeeding looks like. I love the idea of the posters and internal competition. I will have to try to be more creative for NBM next year! |
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Post by anutaitis on Dec 6, 2020 17:28:38 GMT -5
Thank you for providing these ideas! I think providing fun ways to spread education on the benefits of breast feeding is wonderful. I think it is also impactful for women to be able to openly discuss the hardships of breast feeding and challenges they experience.
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