Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC, FILCA
Expertise
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Adoptive Nursing
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Advocacy for Breastfeeding
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Anatomy and Physiology of Lactation
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Anatomy and Physiology of the Nipple
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Breast and Nipple Assessment
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Breast Surgery and Breastfeeding
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Breastfeeding Classes
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Colic and Breastfeeding
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Communication Skills for Breastfeeding Specialists
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Ethics of Breastfeeding Counseling/Practice
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Extended Breastfeeding
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Galactagogues
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HIV/AIDS and Breastfeeding
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In-Patient Lactation Management
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Induced Lactation
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Jaundice and Breastfeeding
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Lactation Management for the Health Care Professional
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Lactation research
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Latching Theory and Techniques
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Low Milk Production
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Maternal Assessment for Breastfeeding
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Multiples and Breastfeeding
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Premature Breastfeeding Babies
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Private Practice Lactation Consultation Business Issues
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Products for Breastfeeding
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Relactation
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Special Needs Breastfeeding Babies
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Supplementation of the Breastfeeding Infant
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Tandem Breastfeeding
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Weaning
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Working and Breastfeeding
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Yeast and Breastfeeding
Upcoming Conferences
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September 9, 2013Regina,Saskatchewan,Canada
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September 11, 2013Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
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September 12, 2013Guelph,Ontario,Canada
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September 14, 2013St. John's,Newfoundland and Labrador,Canada
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Tri-County Breastfeeding ConnectionsOctober 4, 2013Boardman,Ohio,United States
Previous Conferences
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June 6, 2013 - June 7, 2013Bay City,Michigan,United States
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Delaware Department of Public HealthJune 5, 2013Dover,Delaware,United States
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June 3, 2013Antigonish,Nova Scotia,Canada
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May 30, 2013Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada
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May 28, 2013Calgary,Alberta,Canada
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May 27, 2013Victoria,British Columbia,Canada
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May 25, 2013 - May 26, 2013Newport Beach,California,United States
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May 3, 2013 - May 5, 2013St. Louis,Missouri,United States
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April 3, 2013 - April 17, 2013
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April 3, 2013 - April 5, 2013New Orleans,Louisiana,United States
About the Speaker
Nancy has served as a breastfeeding reporter since 1984. Her extensive knowledge of the breastfeeding research and her one-on-one work with thousands of families give Nancy a broad perspective that makes her well-qualified to speak on most breastfeeding topics. A regular contributor to many publications, Nancy has spoken at breastfeeding conferences around the world. If you would like a talk on a topic that is not listed, just ask. Nancy is willing to create talks to meet your needs.
Official Bio for Brochure
Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC, FILCA is author or coauthor of some of the most popular books in breastfeeding, including Breastfeeding Answers Made Simple, Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers (with Kathleen Kendall-Tackett), and The Breastfeeding Answer Book (with Julie Stock). She has been helping breastfeeding families since 1982. Board-certified as a lactation consultant in 1991, she ran a large private lactation practice in the Chicago area from 1993 to 2003. In 2008 Nancy was in the first group of 16 to be awarded the designation Fellow of the International Lactation Consultant Association (FILCA) for her lifetime achievements in breastfeeding.
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.)
The Natural Laws of Breastfeeding
Covers the entire course of breastfeeding, from birth to weaning, incorporating key paradigm shifts and innovative teaching strategies. Includes the significance of right-brain interactions in the early postpartum, the importance of touch to health and survival, how realistic expectations can help increase breastfeeding duration, the effect of breast storage capacity on feeding patterns, and much more.
Offering Nancy's book for parents--Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers (co-authored with Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, PhD, IBCLC)--for sale at the talk can be an effective fundraiser for your organization.
Assessing Breast Pain
Provides strategies for assessing breast pain, likely and unlikely causes, and an overview of effective treatments. It also answers the question: Can shooting or burning pain between feedings be caused by ductal candidiasis, and if not, what other possible causes should we consider?
Breast, Bottle & Childhood Obesity
This talk provides an overview of the research on the association between infant feeding during the first year and the risk of childhood obesity. Discover what we’ve learned about the effects of feeding method on milk intake and feeding dynamics (breast versus bottle), how milk composition affects body function and appetite (human milk versus infant formula), and whether what’s in the bottle makes a difference. Learn also about the other factors that may affect the risk of obesity during childhood and beyond.
Concerns About Low Milk Production
This session offers a high-level discussion of milk production at different stages of breastfeeding and in different situations. It begins with a primer on assessing milk adequacy during the first week of life, the need for supplements, and when supplements are needed, feeding volumes and methods. It provides a review of up-to-date, evidence-based strategies for optimizing milk production in mothers exclusively pumping and a guide for using the new Magic Number concept to help employed mothers maintain their milk production long term. It also includes a brief overview of the latest thinking on galactogogues.
Exclusive Breastfeeding: The Mother's Perspective & Beyond
Increasing the rate of exclusive breastfeeding is a public-health priority that can improve health outcomes of mothers and babies. Of the identified barriers to exclusive breastfeeding, few are more challenging than those related to mothers’ belief in their ability to breastfeed and their unrealistic expectations of breastfeeding and baby behavior. Learn how a woman’s breastfeeding self-efficacy impacts her feeding decisions, and how the research on self-efficacy should inform our strategies when working with families. Learn also why so many mothers supplement with formula, the role of culture in this decision, and some evidence-based strategies for addressing these issues.
This talk offers L-CERPs and is geared to all those who work with breastfeeding families in hospitals and in the community.
Helping Mothers Who Exclusively Pump
We are in the midst of a pumping epidemic. Learn what the latest research tells us about how to establish healthy milk production for mothers with babies in the NICU and for those who choose to pump and bottle feed. Find out how to use breast storage capacity to individualize a pumping plan and specific strategies for how to best support mothers in this situation.
This session covers information needed by in-hospital clinicians and by those who help mothers after discharge.
Nipple Pain & Trauma: Causes & Treatments
Do many of the mothers you see find breastfeeding painful? This session provides an in-depth review of the causes of nipple pain and trauma. It also reviews comfort measures mothers can use and includes a four-stage system for assessing nipple trauma and recommended, evidence-based treatments for each stage.
This session is appropriate both for healthcare professionals and breastfeeding educators.
Simplifying Breastfeeding: The First 36 Hours
Geared for those who work with mothers and babies after birth. Learn how to make early breastfeeding easier, which postpartum practices have long-term implications, what biology tells us about normal feeding patterns and the effects of skin-to-skin contact and separation on infant stability.
Transitioning to the Breast
Learn how term and preterm babies can be transitioned from bottles, nipple shields, and other feeding methods to full breastfeeding using insights from recent research. A four-part framework is provided for determining possible causes of breast refusal along with insights into how to target interventions to the cause of the feeding problem. Because babies are hardwired to breastfeed, even those who have been fed using other methods for months can be helped to accept the breast.
This talk is appropriate for those working in hospitals and those who work with mothers and babies in other settings.
Understanding Breastfeeding Behaviors
Add more “tools” to your “lactation toolbox” at this video-packed session, which includes an international cast of characters. Provides a chronological summary of recommended approaches to latch, with a description of what we got right and which assumptions were later proved wrong. Includes an overview of the hardwiring both mothers and babies bring to breastfeeding, a checklist for evaluating basic breastfeeding dynamics, and anatomical issues that can interfere.
Using the International Code to Create Change
Change is in the air. Learn how the International Code for the Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes applies to healthcare professionals, its implications to our daily practice, a new process to evaluate U.S. companies' compliance with the International Code and some new developments that may help protect breastfeeding in the U.S.
This talk qualifies for E CERPs, a requirement for recertification.
Working and Breastfeeding Made Simple
Learn new ways to help employed mothers structure daily routines, calculate a baby's milk needs, and troubleshoot milk production issues using the new Magic Number concept so that they can more easily meet their long-term breastfeeding goals.
Primarily geared to those who work with mothers after hospital discharge.
