Course Description

In this webinar, participants will learn about supporting feeding success and managing aversion in breast and bottle-feeding infants. Impact on breastfeeding of cultural baby-rearing practices, social media, medical over intervention and changes in reproductive medicine will be discussed. Case studies will be used to stress the importance of parent education, use of a team approach, responsive feeding measures and baby-led feeding tactics in managing babies with breastfeeding challenges and how that can minimize and/or potentially eradicate feeding aversion when transitioning to solid food feedings.

Instructor

Jill Rabin, M.S., CCC-SLP/L, IBCLC

Jill Rabin is a pediatric speech pathologist and international board certified lactation consultant who has been working with the 0 to 3 year old population for almost 36 years. She is based in the north suburbs of Chicago where she has a private practice working with young babies and their families with feeding and speech/language issues. Her areas of specialty include facilitating breastfeeding in at-risk populations such as preterm infants and babies with Down syndrome, using the adapted baby-led weaning approach to transition babies with special needs to solids and using child-directed and responsive feeding approaches to improve feeding skills in infants and babies with feeding aversion. She contributed two chapters to the book Breastfeeding and Down syndrome and has written three posts about breastfeeding and Down syndrome on the Julia’s Way website. She currently co-moderates a free monthly Zoom group through Julia’s Way to provide support to lactating parents who are attempting to breastfeed/chestfeed their babies with Down syndrome. She wrote an essay and was quoted in the tenth anniversary edition of Gill Rapley and Tracey Murkett’s Baby-Led Weaning book. She has been featured as a guest on the Untethered Podcast, episode 31 in December 2019 and spoke about feeding difficulties in children with special needs as well as episode 82 in November 2020 focusing on bottle refusal. Jill has done national and international webinars and presentations on the adapted baby-led weaning approach, breastfeeding babies with special needs and managing feeding aversion in infants. She lectures with Lori Overland and currently has a course with her on the Talks Tools site entitled “ A Sensory Motor Approach to Modified Baby -Led Weaning.” They were featured in a blog post for the Feeding Flock in July 2020 on that subject. She teaches classes about transitioning to solids to new parents at the New Mother New Baby lactation center located in Northbrook Illinois. Jill speaks Spanish and uses American Sign Language to work on language with her young clients.

CEUs

Certificates will be issued verifying participation in two (2) hours of continuing education once a passing grade is received on the quiz. Check with your professional organizations licensing bodies to determine exactly what may be accepted for you. This course is eligible for ASHA’s professional development hour requirements. You will not require ASHA pre-approval for this. See here [https://www.asha.org/certification/FactDef/] for more information. As we are based in Illinois, we are more confident that our events count towards our local organizations (e.g. ILOTA). Our events are not formally submitted through any registry, however if you track your hours independently they may count towards your professional development requirements, and your certificate may stand as proof of your participation. We also submit for credit approval with the Illinois Early Intervention Training Program. This is not required for all states, and may not apply to you. Please refer to your state/local organization for further information regarding CEU requirements and if our events are considered eligible activities by their standards.



Cancellations

Cancellations must be in writing and will incur a $10 fee. If more than 10% of the course has been viewed, we are unable to issue a refund. If the Chicago Feeding Group or speaker should need to remove the course, course fees will be refunded or transferred to another course at the discretion of the participant.