North Central Breastfeeding Task Force
9.10.21 Minutes
- Round Robin (group sharing)
- Cindy – new executive director hired; Cindy’s new position is “just” as breastfeeding coordinator now
- Add baby’s name to WIC peer counselor spreadsheet to filter to get rid of the not bf moms and narrow down the results
- Nancy – manually calculating 2 contacts for WIC goals, the spreadsheet from Melanie didn’t really help so using their own system
- Rose – getting the 9 month calls in for WIC, but having staffing shortages so having a harder time getting the 2-contacts in. having 4 staff going to CLS training. Offering as many trainings as we can
- Courtney – having some WIC clients come back onsite: seems to be going well! Gave staff 2 months “warning” before having clients on site, reviewing schedules 1 week in advance and offering mid-certifications and recertifications the option to come on site if they wish. About 1-5 families agree per day across all 5 locations. Generally no more than 3/site/day. Sites with more than 1 nutritionist have morning huddles to determine who will see each in person family so they can move from the lab directly to a nutritionist without going back to a waiting room. Not a lot of pushback from staff – reached out to them early for ideas on who they thought would be interested in coming on site and what they thought might work.
- Most staff are vaccinated, within an FQHC so masks worn all day and screening at entrances for staff and clients.
- PPE provided: masks, face shields, gloves, surface wipes, plexiglass dividers on desks or a standing one (like a white board/chalkboard on wheels)
- Intake staff wipe down their space and lab between clients
- Nutritionists wipe down their offices
- Staff were used to wiping things down from pre-covid procedures
- ISPAN Project
- LCHD: Starting in July prenatal teams giving out infographic cards and breast pads to moms around 16-18 weeks pregnant (20 week visits are via telehealth right now)
- Follow-up meeting scheduled in October to check in
- Mini Grants and Plans for funding
- Webinar idea (using funding for next year)
- Series of 4 webinars covering BF basics for providers
- Audience:
- OB/GYNs
- Pediatricians
- Family Practice
- APRN/RNs seeing pregnant/bf women and infants
- 4 1-hr long webinars
- How to discuss w/patients, benefits of bf
- Anatomy/physiology, position and latch
- Feeding cues, getting enough milk, problem solving
- Lifestyle (work/school), additional challenges
- Timeline:
- First webinar in Sept 2022
- CE option – could request more money from the state to fund it!
- Courtney started looking into it… a little complicated!
- Family Practitioners: $625 for the series – 1 credit per webinar
- Pediatricians: $300 per credit hour
- Courtney started looking into it… a little complicated!
- Audience:
- Series of 4 webinars covering BF basics for providers
- Webinar idea (using funding for next year)
- LCHD: Starting in July prenatal teams giving out infographic cards and breast pads to moms around 16-18 weeks pregnant (20 week visits are via telehealth right now)
- Cindy – new executive director hired; Cindy’s new position is “just” as breastfeeding coordinator now
- OB/GYN, APRN/RN unsure still
- Speaker(s):
- Pam Chay (IBCLC and clinical coordinator for Northwestern) has offered to lead
- Courtney Adams (IBCLC, RD and WIC BF coord. For Lake County) can also lead one
- Will reach out to former provider and IBCLC from LCHD and see if she is interested in assisting w/at least the first one
- Anyone else interested?
- Other ideas for using funds for this year?
- Dr hale books – purchase updated copies to share w/organizations? – have done in the past
- Breast pads, law cards previously done
- Have $1000 until July 1 to use the funds
- State BF Task Force Calls
- Discussion about July 20th topics:
- Marijuana effects in pregnancy and lactation (slides attached)
- Interesting perspective – a little bit different information than has been shared in the past.
- Discussion on how we counsel: weighing the risks and benefits individually w/families
- Next call: Oct 19th 10 am- 12 pm
- Marijuana effects in pregnancy and lactation (slides attached)
- Next Meeting: November 12
- Discussion about July 20th topics: