Northeast News
August, 2021
Hello All,
August is a special month in the world of lactation! The whole month of August is World Breastfeeding Month, kicking off with World Breastfeeding Week (August 1-7). We also will be celebrating and recognizing Black Breastfeeding Week (BBW) the last week in August. Some of you have already shared some wonderful things you are doing or plan to do for this month. If you have not shared these with me, please feel free to do so. I will be sharing all of your activities and accomplishments at our quarterly OLCA meetings in the future.
Here are some of the activities for World Breastfeeding Week and regional updates that I have received from our members. Please feel free to share any appropriate information with your patients/clients.
WOOSTER LACTATION DEPARTMENT:
1)We are working with the Ohio Milk Bank to become a milk drop location as well as starting the process to use donor milk in our well baby nursery. The goal is to have this process fully implemented by January, 2022.
2). One of our IBCLC’s has been certified in infant massage so we will begin offering classes, as well as offering massage as an intervention to feeding difficulties.
3). For World Breastfeeding Week, we will be giving out milk and cookies to our breastfeeding mothers as well as our Wooster employees (local donors have made this possible).
4). Virtual Breastfeeding Support group Baby Bistro is going well. Hoping to offer in-person soon, but waiting on hospital approval. This virtual option will be offered even after we are able to do in-person support group as we have been able to help women who do not live close to our facility.
5). The Wooster Lactation Department was awarded the “BEST LACTATION TEAM” from OLCA during the 2021 Virtual Annual Conference!! Congratulations!!
CLEVELAND CLINIC FAIRVIEW HOSPITAL:
Coe Bell has retired and Kim Falatic has assumed the manager position at Fairview.
SUMMIT COUNTY WIC:
1). We are not currently seeing participants in the clinic other than to have their WIC card loaded. All education has been completed via the phone. We will be slowly bringing participants back into the clinic starting September 1st, dependent upon the type of appointment they are due for. We are hoping to have all participants back in the clinic starting November 1st. Our peers have been calling, texting or answering messages via social media to follow up with our participants. We offer virtual assistance but the majority are reluctant to want to try this. Plus, obviously there are a lot of factors involved in obtaining the necessary visuals on virtual calls. We are definitely excited to start seeing participants in the clinic again!
2). As far as BAM, Summit County WIC will be participating in two drive-thru showers. I have attached the save the date so you have the locations and times. WIC will have our own tent to pass out bags. The bags contain pregnancy and breastfeeding information along with breastfeeding gift items that also contain an educational piece. We will be including information on BBW (like we did last year) which includes a pin with the BBW logo and card explaining what BBW is and sites for more information. We will be passing out bags in our clinics to our pregnant and breastfeeding WIC participants as well. We have posters up in the clinics with BAM theme and will continue to post on our social media FB and Instagram sites as well.
Susan Buchanan
OLCA Northeast Regional Representative
nerep@ohio-olca.org
Hello All,
August is a special month in the world of lactation! The whole month of August is World Breastfeeding Month, kicking off with World Breastfeeding Week (August 1-7). We also will be celebrating and recognizing Black Breastfeeding Week (BBW) the last week in August. Some of you have already shared some wonderful things you are doing or plan to do for this month. If you have not shared these with me, please feel free to do so. I will be sharing all of your activities and accomplishments at our quarterly OLCA meetings in the future.
Here are some of the activities for World Breastfeeding Week and regional updates that I have received from our members. Please feel free to share any appropriate information with your patients/clients.
WOOSTER LACTATION DEPARTMENT:
1)We are working with the Ohio Milk Bank to become a milk drop location as well as starting the process to use donor milk in our well baby nursery. The goal is to have this process fully implemented by January, 2022.
2). One of our IBCLC’s has been certified in infant massage so we will begin offering classes, as well as offering massage as an intervention to feeding difficulties.
3). For World Breastfeeding Week, we will be giving out milk and cookies to our breastfeeding mothers as well as our Wooster employees (local donors have made this possible).
4). Virtual Breastfeeding Support group Baby Bistro is going well. Hoping to offer in-person soon, but waiting on hospital approval. This virtual option will be offered even after we are able to do in-person support group as we have been able to help women who do not live close to our facility.
5). The Wooster Lactation Department was awarded the “BEST LACTATION TEAM” from OLCA during the 2021 Virtual Annual Conference!! Congratulations!!
CLEVELAND CLINIC FAIRVIEW HOSPITAL:
Coe Bell has retired and Kim Falatic has assumed the manager position at Fairview.
SUMMIT COUNTY WIC:
1). We are not currently seeing participants in the clinic other than to have their WIC card loaded. All education has been completed via the phone. We will be slowly bringing participants back into the clinic starting September 1st, dependent upon the type of appointment they are due for. We are hoping to have all participants back in the clinic starting November 1st. Our peers have been calling, texting or answering messages via social media to follow up with our participants. We offer virtual assistance but the majority are reluctant to want to try this. Plus, obviously there are a lot of factors involved in obtaining the necessary visuals on virtual calls. We are definitely excited to start seeing participants in the clinic again!
2). As far as BAM, Summit County WIC will be participating in two drive-thru showers. I have attached the save the date so you have the locations and times. WIC will have our own tent to pass out bags. The bags contain pregnancy and breastfeeding information along with breastfeeding gift items that also contain an educational piece. We will be including information on BBW (like we did last year) which includes a pin with the BBW logo and card explaining what BBW is and sites for more information. We will be passing out bags in our clinics to our pregnant and breastfeeding WIC participants as well. We have posters up in the clinics with BAM theme and will continue to post on our social media FB and Instagram sites as well.
Susan Buchanan
OLCA Northeast Regional Representative
nerep@ohio-olca.org
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Updates from Nurture Columbus:
- We have had fun giving out Nurture onesies from World Breastfeeding Week and Breastfeeding Awareness Month
- We are now in network with Medical Mutual and UHC
- Allyson co-authored a publication that came out this summer in the Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing regarding tummy time research and breastfeeding
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