Anatomy of Infant Suck
This module focuses on the complex anatomy of infant breastfeeding, including structures in the suck-swallow-breathe triad: muscles, fascia, and peripheral nerves.
Assessment and Treatment of Tongue-tie and Lip-tie: Cognitive Errors, Ethics, and Differential Diagn...
Dr. Hazelbaker describes the most common cognitive errors in this groundbreaking presentation using tongue-tie assessment and treatment as illustrative examples.
Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Moral Injury in Members of the Perinatal 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.
Classifying Infant Sucking Problems
What does “normal” look like when it comes to the suck-swallow-breathe triad? This module presents normal, establishes a baseline, and provides a detailed explanation of the differences between oral-motor sucking issues and sensory-based sucking issues.
Critical Thinking for the Clinician: Herbs for Lactation and Postpartum Mood
Herbal options can have a physiological impact on milk supply and postpartum mood. This presentation discusses several unique herbs and their pharmacodynamic actions, therapeutic properties, and safety considerations. This presentation will help care prov
Does Breastfeeding Protect Maternal Mental Health?: The Impact of Oxytocin and Stress
Depressed mothers are less likely to breastfeed and yet breastfeeding protects against depression. Breastfeeding supports the oxytocin system which over-rides the stress response.
Faux Tie: When is tongue-tie NOT a tongue-tie?
In this module, Dr. Hazelbaker describes the differences between actual tongue-tie and sucking issues that can appear to be tongue-tie due to altered tongue posture.
Introducing Primitive Reflexes: A Means to Understanding Motor Development
Primitive reflexes serve as the initial connection between the external world stimuli and the internal response systems within humans that involve muscular contraction. This module explores the basic premises of these connections.
Plagiocephaly: Causes, Impact on Breastfeeding, and Solutions
Positional acquired plagiocephaly affects as many as 45% of babies born in the United States. Plagiocephaly can cause multiple functional issues in infants, including compromised breastfeeding.
The Conscious Baby: How Understanding the Baby's Experience Improves Birth, Helps Parents, and Incre...
With the advent of epigenetics and advances in fetal medicine, medical practice now supports that the baby’s experience in utero and birth may have lasting effects on health and human development.
Tongue-Tie: A Journey from Past to Future
Since the time of Aristotle, tongue-tie has been known to create functional oral problems. Dr. Hazelbaker takes the learner through a journey from Aristotle’s time to the present, identifying when the controversy around tongue-tie treatment began.
Torticollis: Causes, Impact on Breastfeeding, and Solutions
In this module, Dr. Hazelbaker reviews the causes of the condition in detail, she outlines an assessment process, and she presents learners with multiple therapeutic strategies for resolving torticollis in infants.
Using the Assessment Tool for Lingual Frenulum Function™©
Professionals need reliable tools to support babies regardless of feeding method. The Assessment Tool for Lingual Frenulum Function™© (ATLFF™©), was created as a result of work developing, formalizing & codifying the diagnostic criteria for tongue-tie.
What Everyone Should Know About Positioning & Latch
Dr. Hazelbaker takes learners through the basics of positioning and latch at breast and introduces them to high-quality online education. This module is appropriate for both experienced lactation specialists and those new to breastfeeding support.
