Employed Mothers (SU)
Goal
Discuss the appropriate continuation of breastfeeding when parents and infant/child are separated
Objectives
- Recognize examples of breastfeeding or feeding issues that are most affected by the time-frame when the mother returns to work outside the home.
- Describe key features of pace bottle-feeding.
- Using Nancy Mohrbacher’s “magic number” method, determine if the working mother’s milk volume should continue, or if she should make adjustments to her pumping/feeding routine over a 24-hour period.
- Name 4 key pieces of information the mother should have before returning to paid employment.