Nikki Lee, RN, BSN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CIMI, CCE, CST(cert.appl.), ANLC, CKC
Expertise
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Adoptive Nursing
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Birth Interventions and Breastfeeding
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Birthing Practices and Breastfeeding
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Breastfeeding Classes
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Breastfeeding Dyad Assessment
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Complementary and Alternative Breastfeeding Treatments
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Counseling Methods for Breastfeeding Specialists
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Culture and Breastfeeding
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Diabetes and Breastfeeding
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Domestic Violence and Breastfeeding
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Lactation Management for the Health Care Professional
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Obesity and Breastfeeding
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Public Breastfeeding Policy
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Supplementation of the Breastfeeding Infant
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Work - life balance
About the Speaker
Nikki has a private practice, teaches infant massage classes, and works for a teaching facility and a public health agency. Her areas of special interest include complementary therapies, labor and delivery, the relationship between mother and baby, and the first 2 weeks postpartum.
Official Bio for Brochure
Nikki is a nurse, a childbirth educator, a lactation consultant, an infant massage instructor, a cranio-sacral therapist, a researcher, a writer, and a public speaker; she has been working with breastfeeding for over 30 years. Her other interests include figure skating, back-up rhythm guitar (Irish,Cajun and old-time) and playing bodhran.Nikki imagines clean air, clean water and fresh wholesome food being major international goals. She imagines that the pursuit of armaments and war is dropped, because it isn’t good for babies. She sees everyone, everywhere, caring for and about babies
Bio for Introduction
Nikki is a lactation consultant, a nurse, an infant massage instructor, a childbirth educator, a craniosacral therapy practitioner, and an author. More importantly, she is the mother of two beautiful breastfed daughters! She looks forward to meeting you today, hopes to answer your questions, and imagines a wonderful time spent together.
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 Spirit of the Word
Resistance is a common challenge for us who work to see breastfeeding become the cultural norm. What happens when the resistance is in us? This presentation looks within the practitioner and offers suggestions and scripts to make our work easier, and guidelines for welcoming resistance as a messenger and harbringer of learning.
We all have experienced resistance, when our clients and audiences and co-workers may be still skeptical or unsupportive about breastfeeding. How do we play a role in that situation? Join Nikki today as she explores this topic, gives suggestions for situations we may be in, and encourages us to look at resistance as a guide to learning and change.
Conplementary and Alternative Medicine in Breastfeeding Therapy
Integrative medicine blends conventional medicine with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). In this presentation, Nikki discusses the history of the schism between the two, the importance of energy in healing, and uses current evidence to underscore the value of CAM in breastfeeding work. She can show how different modalities may be effective in treating clinical situations: infant colic, and maternal mastitis, bleb and breast pain. She can integrate audience activities into the discussions of craniosacral therapy, aromatherapy, and energy. In-depth discussions and case histories are offered about acupuncture, aromatherapy, craniosacral therapy, homeopathy, and massage (infant and maternal).
Associations between Formula, Diabetes and Obesity
Currently, there are 11 theories for the association between lack of breastfeeding and diabetes and 5 theories for the association between formula feeding and obesity. This presentation will give an overview of the current situation in the US, present the current research, and offer strategies to ensure that infants receive only human milk.
Power Point, Lecture, Question and Answer. Has been awarded contact hours in the past.
Craniosacral therapy: another tool in a lactation consultant's toolbox
What is craniosacral therapy? * Anatomy and physiology of the craniosacral system * Profile of affected infant * Profile of affected mother 2. Techniques · Light forces and palpation · IF THERE IS TIME: some audience partner work 3. Breastfeeding Management Model · Key concepts: assess lactation course thus far, treat mom, view mom and baby as unit · Prepare for possibility of SER (somato-emotional release) · Need time: several hours 4. Case Studies (IF TIME, CAN PRESENT BOTH) · SS: needed more help with breastfeeding, poor home environment (unsupportive H. and m-I-l), did still points and diaphragm releases on both. Saw LC when baby 8 weeks old. · TG: 6-hour labor, deep decelerations, emergency c/s, d/c home pumping and bottle-feeding and using nipple shield. Saw LC when baby 2 weeks old.
PowerPoint, Lecture, DVD or video, Question and Answer, Audience Activity
Cultural Humility in Breastfeeding Work
This presentation will present several counseling models,information about cultural views and beliefs about breastfeeding from around the world, and seeks to improve the participant's sensitivity when working with women from different cultures.
PowerPoint, Lecture, DVD, Group Work, Question and Answer.
Connecting the Dots: Birth and Breastfeeding
This presentation will give the participant an overview of the evidence behind current practices around birth and postpartum. Options supporting the biologic template will be presented.
PowerPoint, Lecture, DVD, discussion, question and answer.
Connecting the Dots: Birth and Breastfeeding
This presentation will give the participant an overview of the evidence behind current practices around birth and postpartum. Options supporting the biologic template will be presented.
PowerPoint, Lecture, DVD, discussion, question and answer.
The 20-Hour Interdisciplinary Course in Breastfeeding Management for the US
This course is sufficient to meet the Baby-Friendly requirement for training of maternity workers. It requires 3 full days.
PowerPoint. Lecture. Discussion. Question and Answer. Films and DVDs. Demonstration and return demonstration. The course offers 20.1 nursing contact hours.
Breastfeeding and Child Abuse
Breastfeeding increases family harmony and reduces the risk of child abuse and neglect. This presentation is a review of the evidence.
PowerPoint. Lecture. Discussion.
Friendly Charting
Charting can be drudgery, yet it is an essential component of professional practice. How can a practitioner keep charting alive, accurate and rewarding? This workshop will define the importance of charting, including legal issues and standards of practice. It is appropriate for the new lactation consultant, and will be a refresher for the experienced lactation professional. The presentation starts with an actual case history where a LC was called in to give a deposition. The participants are invited to comment on the charting and learn from the mistakes of another. Charting recommendations for LC practice based on the law are described. Various methods of charting and types of breastfeeding assessment tools will be presented. Suggestions will be made to make charting easier and helpful. Several participatory activities will reinforce the presentation, and an exercise in humor will remind the audience of the importance of written language.
This presentation was given at ILCA. Lecture. Discussion. Powerpoint.
Words that Work
The workshop participant should, at the end of this presentation, be able: * To identify two concepts fundamental to this model of telephone counseling * To list several words, phrases, or attitudes to avoid * To identify particular interventions for each postpartum day in the first common or normal week of breastfeeding * To describe the value of the daily phone calls * To differentiate between the three core concepts of the model: 1) Mother the mother 2) Trust the baby 3) Keep them together
PowerPoint. Lecture. Discussion.
Finding Peace in the Trenches: Nurturing the Nurturer
OUTLINE: Introduction of topic. Characteristics of a typical day. Nourish the Self: food, breathe, attitude. Find a Village of support. Practice small, spontaneous acts of kindness. Qualities of positive ventilation. Name one good thing about today. Question and answer period, post-test questions.
Presentation methods: Lecture. Powerpoint. DVD. Discussion. Group activity.
