AWHONN Insights Podcast

Aug 08 2024 64 mins

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Join us during National Breastfeeding Month as we delve into the world of infant feeding with two leading experts who overcame breastfeeding challenges. We’ll discuss their passion for infant feeding and skin-to-skin care, how they’ve achieved career success in clinical practice and publishing, and their solution-oriented visions for the future of infant feeding.

Meet our guests:

Britt Pados, PhD, NNP, IBCLC

Dr. Pados is a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant, and Certified Trauma-Informed Professional at Infant Feeding Care in Massachusetts. She provides care to infants who are struggling with breastfeeding and bottle-feeding difficulties. She also owns Infant Feeding Labs, an independent lab that tests flow rates of infant bottle nipples/teats. Her research has focused on feeding infants and young children, including those with medical complexity, assessment of feeding disorders, and gastrointestinal symptoms. She’s a mom of three, including a set of twins who were born prematurely and a full-term baby who experienced bottle-feeding aversion.

Gloria Dudney, RN, IBCLC, RLC

Gloria has been practicing Maternal and Child Nursing for 31 years and became board-certified as a Registered Lactation Consultant following a challenging breastfeeding journey with her own child. As Director of Lactation Services for East Tennessee State University Health, she provides prenatal and postpartum lactation consults as well as clinical rotations for resident physicians in the OB and Pediatrics departments. Gloria advocates for risk-appropriate lactation care with a focus on prenatal preparation for the infant feeding journey and speaks nationally on these topics. Her vision statement is, “If mom’s ok, everybody’s ok.” Her mission statement is, “Make mom ok.”

Episode Resources

Infant Feeding Care

Infant Feeding Labs

ETSU Breastfeeding Resources

Dudney, G. L. (2012). Mommy-Friendly breastfeeding: Logical solutions for challenges and encouragement for enjoying your baby. Mommy-Friendly Breastfeeding.

Nursing for Women’s Health

Healthy Mom&Baby Magazine

2023 – America’s Most And Least Trusted Professions

Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Protocols

Nurse-Family Partnership

Winter, L. F., Kellams, A., Peter-Wohl, S., Taylor, J. S., Lee, K. G., Terrell, M. J., Noble, L., Maynor, A.R., Meek, J. Y., & Stuebe, A. M. (2020). Evidence-based updates on the first week of exclusive breastfeeding among infants ≥35 weeks. Pediatrics, 145(4): e20183696. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2018-3696

Meek, J. Y., Noble, L. (2022). Policy statement: Breastfeeding and the use of human milk. Pediatrics, 150(1): e2022057988. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2022-057988

Mannel, R. (2011). Defining lactation acuity to improve patient safety and outcomes. Journal of Human Lactation, 27(2), 163-70. https://doi.org/10.1177/0890334410397198

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. (2021). Committee Opinion 820 Breastfeeding Challenges. https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-opinion/articles/2021/02/breastfeeding-challenges