XL31: Catherine Watson-Genna: Facilitating Infant Competence: Hand Use During Latch

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Most breastfeeding instruction includes strategies to prevent baby’s hands from ‘getting in the way’ during positioning and latch. Careful observation reveals that infants use their hands in predictable ways that help them find, shape, and move the breast to assist attachment.

This presentation focuses on these predictable behaviors and ways to work with them and when necessary modify them to assist breastfeeding dyads. The longer version includes the research base for these observations.

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Lecturer:
Catherine Watson-Genna, BS, IBCLC
CERPs:
1 L CERPs / 1 Lactation Specific Hours
Cost:
US$25
Access period:
One week
Lecture recorded at:
GOLD11
Catherine Watson Genna has been an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant in private practice in NYC since 1992. She has a special interest in the anatomical, genetic and neurological influences on infant sucking skills, and writes and speaks on these topics.

She is co-researcher in a study utilizing ultrasound to examine tongue movements during breastfeeding in infants with ankyloglossia and other sucking problems. Her clinical photographs are widely published.

She is the author of Selecting and Using Breastfeeding Tools: Improving Care and Outcomes and Supporting Sucking Skills in Breastfeeding Infants.