Cheryl Scott

Expertise

  • Anatomy and Physiology of Lactation
  • Anatomy and Physiology of the Nipple
  • Babywearing and Breastfeeding
  • Birth Interventions and Breastfeeding
  • Birthing Practices and Breastfeeding
  • Breast and Nipple Assessment
  • Co-Sleeping, Bed-Sharing, and Breastfeeding
  • Communication Skills for Breastfeeding Specialists
  • Complementary and Alternative Breastfeeding Treatments
  • Counseling Methods for Breastfeeding Specialists
  • Culture and Breastfeeding
  • Ethics of Breastfeeding Counseling/Practice
  • Galactagogues
  • Herbs and Breastfeeding
  • Hospital Practice/Policy and Breastfeeding
  • Humor and Breastfeeding
  • In-Patient Lactation Management
  • Induced Lactation
  • Infant Assessment for Breastfeeding
  • Lactation Management for the Health Care Professional
  • Lactation research
  • Latching Theory and Techniques
  • Low Milk Production
  • Maternal Assessment for Breastfeeding
  • NICU Policy/Procedures for Breastfeeding Mothers/Infants
  • Products for Breastfeeding
  • SIDS and Breastfeeding
  • Suck Dysfunction

Upcoming Conferences

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About the Speaker

You will enjoy Dr. Scott’s engaging personality and passion for the promotion of exceptional care of the breastfeeding dyad. Participants greatly appreciate going home from Dr. Scott’s seminars laden with practical tips and tricks that really work! Her goal is to enrich the learning experience for everyone both novice and expert. Many lactation consultants and nurses value her sessions because she is in the trenches with them encountering the same challenges. She knows the daily pressures and frustrations encountered by lactation consultants in today’s hectic work environment. Dr. Scott provides practical and effective strategies to empower both health care providers and the families they help. Seminar participants share how effective and fun her right brain communication techniques enhance all aspects of breastfeeding management. Dr. Scott’s areas of interest pertains to her areas of expertise which includes: ♥ Empowering health care professionals develop passion for their life work ♥ Effective Strategies for Low Milk Supply ♥ Herbal Galactagogues: Keeping within our Scope of Practice ♥ Developing cultural sensitivity and respect for all breastfeeding women ♥ Prevention of Lactation Burnout ♥ Compassionate Care for the Lactation Consultant and the Families we Care For ♥ 10 Steps of Successful Breastfeeding: Powerful Strategies for Successful Breastfeeding Management ♥ Right Brain Learning Techniques ♥ Holistic Care of the Breastfeeding Dyad ♥ Quantum Physics and Energy Medicine’s application related to Lactation Management ♥ Time Management Techniques for the Inpatient Lactation Consultant

Official Bio for Brochure

Cheryl Scott has enjoyed working with breastfeeding dyads for nearly 30 years. Cheryl's exciting and fulfilling years as a neonatal intensive care nurse and postpartum nurse led her into her current passion of life as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC). Cheryl's role as a lactation consultant spans many professional venues: inpatient lactation consultant, investigator for several human lactation research projects, published author and international speaker. Cheryl's leadership at a large hospital management organization has been instrumental in leading her organization to be the first to implement the State of California's Model Hospital Policies. She also assists with the design and implementation of breastfeeding policies, protocols and patient teaching resources for breastfeeding mothers. For the past 15 years, Cheryl has created breastfeeding resources for local hospitals. She has designed breastfeeding standards of care, protocols, policies, procedures, chart forms, surveys, assessment and evaluation tools, quality assurance tools, and patient breastfeeding education literature, along with on-going hospital staff education. Cheryl's Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral studies have focused on maternal and infant nutrition coupled with holistic applications supporting the mother baby dyad. Cheryl had the pleasure of traveling extensively throughout the world to study cultural practices and foods that support maternal milk supply. She continues to be a popular and requested speaker at national and international lactation conferences on the topics of breastfeeding support and management.

Presentations

This speaker is pleased to provide presentations on the following topics to professional and parenting conferences. Presentations on other topics may be available upon request and subject to sufficient development lead-time. (For CERP topics, required paperwork will be provided promptly to meet CERP deadlines.)

Successful Strategies for Implementing Continuous Skin to Skin in the Hospital and First 2 Months of Life
60 - 120 minutes
CERP

Continuous Skin to Skin (CSTS) is one of the most effective strategies for infant adaptation to extrauterine life, improved mother-infant attachment, family bonding, and successful breastfeeding goals. Join us in the discovery of the Healing Power of Continuous Skin to Skin (CSTS). This is a must for your list of educational opportunities to learn how to lighten your work load while ensuring optimal safety for newly delivered mothers and babies. Come and learn the many benefits CSTS provides mothers, babies, and health care workers. Explore common hospital barriers to CSTS and easy solutions to provide mothers and babies access to each other for successful breastfeeding, effective bonding, attachment, and postpartum healing. Our seminar will provide the health care provider with tips for making your job easier as you manage postpartum mother and baby care. Learn evidenced based breastfeeding management skills to maximize nature’s best medicine for both mother and baby:

This is a highly praised session by all health care providers working with the breastfeeding triad in the first 2 months of life. This hands-on session provides the seminar participant with many tools to successfully promote parental support and enthusiasm for continuous skin to skin in the first 2 months of life. Positive and easy to implement strategies for changing institutional paradigms, are provided in this session. Nurses, Lactation Consultants, nurse midwives, Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, and WIC peer counselors, enthusiastically embrace this fun session which provides the with solid tools which have been successfully implemented in many hospitals and clinics for the continuation of skin to skin to increase successful parental/infant bonding and successful long-term breastfeeding.

Title: Effective Methods for Boosting Low Milk Supply: Keeping Baby Healthy and Mother Happy
60 - 120 minutes
CERP

Low milk supply continues to be the number one reason for early cessation of breastfeeding. Seminar participants will be able to identify causes for low milk supply and how to develop and implement specific breastfeeding care plans to improve maternal milk supply. We explore specific challenges and causes of low milk supply that many breastfeeding mothers experience. Let us help you to learn easy solutions for specific causes for low milk supply. Enjoy learning a balanced approach between Western Medicine and Complementary Medicine. Discover tried and true methods that really work to boost low milk supply. Learn how to make a frustrating experience for breastfeeding mothers into a fulfilling experience. Breastfeeding can work when we have the knowledge and proper tools to give to our breastfeeding mothers.

10 Steps to Breastfeeding Success: Keys for Increasing your Breastfeeding Rates and Staff Satisfaction
60 - 120 minutes
CERP

These Easy and Effective 10 Steps for Successful Breastfeeding closely examines the scientific evidence that do lead to improved breastfeeding rates. Past changes and practices have not necessarily been a reflection of evidence-based practice. Hospital practice has not been a driving concern for ensuring successful attachment, parental bonding, and breastfeeding success. This session provides the learner many tangible and helpful tools gleaned from Baby Friendly Hospitals Best Practices. Most hospitals in the United States are striving to reach The Healthy People 2010 goals of 75% initiation breastfeeding rates and 50% by 6 months. How can our mothers get to this goal if they don’t start off well? The way we can improve our breastfeeding rates is by implementing the Ten Steps of Baby Friendly. In addition, for those hospitals that cannot afford or be able to meet all of the requirements for Baby Friendly (such as purchasing formula, extensive staff education and on-site certification visits) the 10 Steps of the Model Hospital Policies may be the optimal choice for you and your hospital. Inpatient and Outpatient Health Care Professionals and Lactation Consultants will learn how to make their job much easier and more effective at achieving successful parental bonding, breastfeeding initiation, and duration rates.

Exceptional Care for ourselves and our Breastfeeding Families
60 - 120 minutes

"Providing Exceptional Care for Ourselves and Others" In this seminar you will discover the essential tools health care professionals need for caring for others and for themselves, without succumbing to health care burnout. You will learn how to navigate the seas of daily stress and the demands of workplace overload without losing yourself to unbearable stress, chronic health conditions, and complacency. Being a lactation consultant and/ or nurse who works with breastfeeding families has wonderful personal and emotional compensations however it can be a draining experience. You will learn effective methods to cope with the mental and physical strain of the daily demands we encounter in today’s healthcare workplace. Caring for others is a deeply fundamental trait within our souls. It is an innate and powerful part of who we are and always will be. For many of us, compassion and caring were primary reasons for becoming a nurse. Has your passion for compassionate care disappeared and become a value of the past? Join us so you can learn how to: • Take good care of yourself with use of holistic practices that are easy, cheap and fun for you to incorporate into your lifestyle • How to set limits and boundaries in the workplace • Finding balance in your world • How to nurture yourself so you can care for others • Scheduling time for yourself • Identify support systems and how to utilize them Avoiding Professional Burnout The Health Care Environment in the 21st century is taking a toll on our health as clinicians. Our hospitals and clinics load more and more responsibility on our shoulders. The constant updating of high tech nursing, complicated medications, short staffing, poor staffing, translates into more personal stress and less time to carry out our duties safely for ourselves and for our patients. Our hospitals and clinics experience notoriously high burnout rates due to changing in staffing patterns, patient care delivery styles, and unrealistic expectations from management. Defining You, Your Dreams, Your Goals. It’s high time we take time to reassess how we are doing with realizing the career goals and dreams we began when we entered the work force. Join us as we take time to help you define who you are as a person, as a caregiver, and the many other roles you play in this wonderful journey called life. Join us as we take a look at your dreams and how to help you realize your nursing career goals. We will be discovering tools for your personal empowerment. Join us as we learn how to Recognize the fears that limit your success and how to protecting your dreams from critical people. Let us help you create and pursue your lactation management career dreams.

This session is a highly integrative session. There is a high level of audience participation with many hands-on activities. This is a highly sought after seminar by all types of health care providers. This can be limited to a one or 2 hour session, however to allow our seminar participants to fully benefit from ALL benefits this session is able to provide them, a full 1 or 2 days is highly recommended.

Preserving the Breastfeeding Relationship in the NICU thro Kangaroo Care
30 - 60 minutes

Many NICU nurses want to help parents with Kangaroo Mother care however, due to concern for infant safety and time constraints for the nurse, Kangaroo Mother Care is often overlooked. This one-hour presentation highlights the immense benefits of Kangaroo Care as presented by neonatologists Edgar Rey and Hector Martinez in Bogota, Columbia. The seminar participant will learn how to teach parents safe practices of Kangaroo Mother care for the premature and Late Pre-Term Infant. The health care provider will learn many benefits of Kangaroo Mother care such as reducing mortality rates from 70 to 30%, reduction of colic, apnea and bradycardia. Improved sleep time, oxygen saturation, stabilization of respiration, heart rate, body temperature, weight gain, and breastfeeding success along with ensuring shorter hospital stay. This seminar features a hands-on approach involving learner participation providing seminar participants a great learning opportunity.

Benefits, Advantages and Rewards of Human Milk
30 - 60 minutes

How do you get NICU health care staff to enthusiastically support breastfeeding mothers? NICU staff buy-in to support breastfeeding success begins through the discovery of the unbelievable benefits human milk provides the neonate. Join us in this refreshing educational expedition along every stage of the neonate’s journey; beginning at birth, through the up and down meanderings in the NICU to his successful finish over the home stretch. Join us on this fantastic voyage as we delve into the microbiology and immunological properties of human milk as it supports the NICU infant. This is not a boring seminar!

Successful Breastfeeding Management for the Late Preterm Infant: The Journey into Oz with the Great Pretender
60 - 120 minutes
CERP

Join us into our Journey into Oz, the Land of the Great Pretender (also known as the Late Preterm Infant (LPI)). Our journey courses through the LPI’s feeding challenges and pairs you up with current best practices providing you with successful hospital management and outpatient breastfeeding support for this high-risk infant population. Many parents perceive their Late Preterm infant as a smaller version of a healthy strong baby unaware of their LPI’s weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Many parents do not realize their 34-36 week infant may take more time to feed or might not be strong enough to effectively transfer milk from their breast. The LPI faces multiple challenges such as low energy stores, high-energy demand, poor-feeding abilities and leaves a mother at risk for insufficient milk production. This seminar is a must for all health care professionals caring for the Late Preterm Infant. Nurses, physicians, lactation consultants, pediatric nurse practitioners, registered dieticians, WIC peer counselors etc. will be able to develop their own best practices using clinical evidenced based information on optimal feeding support for the LPI. You will learn how to safeguard your facilities exclusive breastfeeding rates even with the LPI. Come and learn tips, tricks and tools to safely and effectively lead your LPI families into the Land of Abundant Milk and Thriving Infanthood.

Effective Right Brain Teaching Techniques: Are you Speaking to her Right Brain?
60 - 30 minutes
CERP

This enjoyable session is a “must” for all health care professionals who want breastfeeding mothers to understand and remember their breastfeeding teaching and instruction. Pregnant and breastfeeding mothers think and dwell in their right brain because their brains are continually bathed in oxytocin. Mothers who operate in an oxytocin-enriched brain, live and function in their right brain. Her thinking is random, intuitive, holistic, and looks at the whole picture not at specifics. Those of us who have been trained in Western schools have been taught left-brain thinking and teaching techniques. When we teach our right brained breastfeeding mothers, it is imperative we use teaching techniques that connect both sides of her brain. We will learn about these right brain learning activities that include repetition, patterning, metaphors, analogies, role-playing, visuals, and movement. This fun interactive seminar provides numerous right-brain learning tips and tricks for the health care professional desiring optimal maternal understanding and memory retention. We will take a look at the difference of the teaching styles of the “Sage on the Stage” versus the more effective “Guide on her Side”. Join us as we learn these powerful and enjoyable teaching tools.

Contact Info

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+1 (209) 296 4684
cherylscott@volcano.net
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Speaking Services

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Nearest Airport: 
Sacramento International (SMF)
Willing To Travel To: 
Northeast - US
Mid-Atlantic - US
Southeast - US
Northern Mid-West - US
Central Mid-West - US
Southern Mid-West - US
Northwest - US
Mid-Pacific - US
Southwest - US
East Canada
Central Canada
West Canada
South America
Asia
West Europe
United Kingdom
Australia
Languages: 
English

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