Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC, FILCA

Expertise

  • Adoptive Nursing
  • Advocacy for Breastfeeding
  • Anatomy and Physiology of Lactation
  • Anatomy and Physiology of the Nipple
  • Breast and Nipple Assessment
  • Breast Surgery and Breastfeeding
  • Breastfeeding Classes
  • Colic and Breastfeeding
  • Communication Skills for Breastfeeding Specialists
  • Ethics of Breastfeeding Counseling/Practice
  • Extended Breastfeeding
  • Galactagogues
  • HIV/AIDS and Breastfeeding
  • In-Patient Lactation Management
  • Induced Lactation
  • Jaundice and Breastfeeding
  • Lactation Management for the Health Care Professional
  • Lactation research
  • Latching Theory and Techniques
  • Low Milk Production
  • Maternal Assessment for Breastfeeding
  • Multiples and Breastfeeding
  • Premature Breastfeeding Babies
  • Private Practice Lactation Consultation Business Issues
  • Products for Breastfeeding
  • Relactation
  • Special Needs Breastfeeding Babies
  • Supplementation of the Breastfeeding Infant
  • Tandem Breastfeeding
  • Weaning
  • Working and Breastfeeding
  • Yeast and Breastfeeding

Upcoming Conferences

Previous Conferences

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 in 1991, she ran a large private practice in the Chicago area from 1993 to 2003. Nancy is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Breastfeeding USA, chairs the developing Mothers' Milk Bank of the Western Great Lakes, and helped found the Chicago Area Breastfeeding Coalition. 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.

Bio for Introduction

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.)

Assessing Breast Pain

60 - 75 minutes
CERP

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?

Concerns About Low Milk Production

75 - 90 minutes
CERP

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 ends with a brief overview of galactogogues, both prescribed and herbal.

The Natural Laws of Breastfeeding

75 - 120 minutes
CERP

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.

This session provides information in Nancy's book for parents--Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers (co-authored with Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, PhD, IBCLC). It offers an update for clinicians and others who work with breastfeeding mothers. Offering this book for sale at the talk (the second edition should be available in December 2010) can be an effective fundraiser for your organization.

Working and Breastfeeding Made Simple

75 - 90 minutes
CERP

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.

Helping Mothers Who Exclusively Pump

75 - 90 minutes
CERP

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

75 - 90 minutes
CERP

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

75 - 90 minutes
CERP

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.

Understanding Breastfeeding Behaviors

75 - 120 minutes
CERP

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

75 - 90 minutes
CERP

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.

Pumping and Breastfeeding in the NICU

90 - 120 minutes
CERP

This session describes research-based strategies for supporting breastfeeding in preterm or ill babies by safeguarding milk production, ensuring adequate growth, and helping these babies transition to direct breastfeeding. Find out how Swedish NICUs achieved 85% exclusive breastfeeding (at the breast!) among their 36-week-old preemies. (90 or 120 min.)

This talk is geared to those working in hospital settings.

Transitioning to the Breast

75 - 90 minutes
CERP

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.

Contact Info

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+1 (847) 404 0219

Curriculum Vitae

Books

Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, PhD, IBCLC
December 1, 2010

Speaking Services

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Nearest Airport: 
Chicago O'Hare (ORD)
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
East Europe
United Kingdom
Middle East
Africa
Australia
Languages: 
English

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