Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, PhD, IBCLC, FAPA

Dr Kathy Kendall-Tackett is a health psychologist and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and the Owner and Editor-in-Chief of Praeclarus Press, a small press specializing in women’s health. Dr Kendall-Tackett is Editor-in-Chief of two peer-reviewed journals: Clinical Lactation and Psychological Trauma. She is Fellow of the American Psychological Association in Health and Trauma Psychology, Past President of the APA Division of Trauma Psychology, and a member of the APA’s Publications and Communications Board. Dr Kendall-Tackett specializes in women’s-health research including breastfeeding, depression, trauma, and health psychology, and has won many awards for her work including the 2017 President’s Award for Outstanding Service to the Field of Trauma Psychology from the American Psychological Association’s Division of Trauma Psychology. Dr Kendall-Tackett has authored more than 460 articles or chapters and is author or editor of 38 books.

Burnout, compassion fatigue and moral injury in members of the perinatal health team

Working in perinatal care can be deeply rewarding. It can also lead to job-related burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and moral injury. Secondary traumatic stress (compassion fatigue), or moral injury, can occur when witnessing traumatic events in the workplace. This can occur when witnessing infant death or traumatic births, or when there is too much work, or work that doesn’t seem to make a difference, and little institutional support. Unfortunately, this is remarkably common among caregivers for perinatal women. Burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral injury can lead to physical and mental health sequelae for care providers and have a negative effect on the care they provider. Self-care is essential for being able to provide care to others. In this presentation, participants will learn about the causes and consequences of burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral injury. Fortunately, there is hope for recovery. Participants will learn some specific strategies for integrating self-care into their care for others.

Mary Muse, MPH, CHES, IBCLC, RLC

Mary Muse, a public health researcher and International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), serves as the proprietor of Every Family Breastfeeding, LLC. Mary obtained her Masters’ degree in Public Health from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Her scholarly, practice-related, and community-based work examines the intersection of race, gender, and social class in health care and the impact on African American women’s and children’s overall health. She recently directed a research project that investigated successful and intergenerational breastfeeding among African American mothers and grandmothers and serves as the lead author of a research-based article that emanated from the study. Mary has partnered with agencies, faith-based organizations, families, and community-based organizations in Atlanta, Georgia, and St. Louis, Missouri to develop strategies that build upon strengths to improve groups’ health and educational outcomes.

Mary serves on the steering committee of the Black Breastfeeding Caucus of the Black Mothers’ Breastfeeding Association and provides pro bono lactation consultant services with an African American community-based breastfeeding support group, I AM Breastfeeding, in Ferguson, Missouri, USA.

Mary has been helping mothers breastfeed since 2005, first volunteering as a La Leche League Leader before becoming an IBCLC. She enjoys supporting mothers on their breastfeeding journeys and running her private practice, Every Family Breastfeeding, LLC.

Looking backwards to move forward: African American mothers and grandmothers intergenerational breastfeeding journeys

The United States Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding urged researchers to begin to investigate how grandmothers influence their daughters’ decision to breastfeed. Historically, grandmothers within US African American families have played a vital role in the transmission of culture. Understanding African American grandmothers’ roles today, particularly as these roles relate to infant feeding and scholarship about breastfeeding, is critical given African American women’s breastfeeding patterns. This session provides key findings from anexploratory intergenerational study that investigated African American mothers and grandmothers’ breastfeeding journeys.

Giyawati Yulilania Okinarum, MKeb (MMid)

Giyawati Yulilania Okinarum is Lecturer of Midwifery and Researcher in the Department of Midwifery Profession Education at Respati University of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. With a background in Midwifery science, she gained her MKeb (equal to MMid) in 2017, exploring the importance of nutrition for children. Since then her research has continued to examine influences on breastfeeding to prevent stunted child, consequences of psychological stress in lactating mothers, figure out the local food in to increase breast milk, up to mentality health for nursing mothers. She is an award-winning Indonesian researcher, the founder of “Ruang Sehati” community to create the health generation, and also a member of Gender Equity Hub of Women in Global Health (WGH)-United States.

The pattern of breastfeeding frequency, psychological stress and nutritional status to increase breastmilk volume and serum prolactin levels

Failure of exclusive breastfeeding contributes to infant mortality and morbidity. Lack of milk supply causes the failure of exclusive breastfeeding. Some factors that influence milk supply are the frequency of breastfeeding, nutritional status, and psychological stress. These three things determine the quality of breastfeeding. High numbers of primipara or new mothers in Indonesian culture are experiencing physical and psychic difficulties with breastfeeding. This topic explores the patterns of breastfeeding to improve milk supply.

Molly Carrigg, RNC-MNN, IBCLC

Molly Carrigg is a certified registered nurse and practicing IBCLC with professional experience in both OB and maternal newborn nursing. Molly is passionate about educating both fellow RNs and new mothers about breastfeeding following IBCLC standards while meeting the unique needs of the millennial mother. Molly lives in Cleveland Ohio and is pursuing her MSN in Midwifery at Frontier Nursing University.

Google Breastfeeding: Utilizing the humanistic learning theory and relationship-based care theory as a foundation for lactation support of the millennial mother

This is a presentation that explores the unique characteristics and effective educational methods for the millennial breastfeeding mother. This presentation will explore how the humanistic learning theory and relationship-based care theory are effective approaches to early breastfeeding support and success. It also addresses the millennial lactation consultants’ obstacles and opportunities as newer members of the profession.