The Medically Complex Breastfeeding Dyad: What Nurses Need to Know Now

Caring for breastfeeding families is increasingly complex as more parents navigate chronic health conditions alongside the demands of early lactation. The Medically Complex Breastfeeding Dyad: What Nurses Need to Know Now is a focused continuing education webinar designed to equip nurses with practical, evidence‑based strategies to support these high‑need dyads.

Participants will explore how common maternal conditions—such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and mood disorders—can influence lactation physiology and early feeding outcomes. The session emphasizes actionable nursing interventions for delayed milk production, challenging medical recoveries, and condition‑related feeding concerns. Through a trauma‑informed and culturally sensitive lens, learners will also strengthen communication skills to better support families experiencing emotional stress or unmet feeding expectations.

This educational activity will empower nurses to develop individualized breastfeeding support plans that thoughtfully address maternal health status, Medic*tion safety, positioning adaptations, and timely referrals—enhancing confidence and quality of care in real‑world clinical practice.

Registered nurses and other interested healthcare professionals

At the conclusion of the educational activity, participants will be able to:

1. Describe how common maternal chronic health conditions—such as diabetes,

hypertension, obesity, and mood disorders—affect lactation physiology and early

breastfeeding outcomes.

2. Identify evidence‑based nursing interventions to support lactation in families

experiencing delayed milk production, complex medical recovery, or

condition‑related feeding challenges.

3. Apply trauma‑informed and culturally sensitive communication strategies to

support breastfeeding parents navigating chronic disease, emotional stress, or

unmet feeding expectations.

4. Identify key elements of an individualized breastfeeding support plan—considering

maternal health status, Medic*tion safety, positioning adaptations, and

appropriate referrals—to apply in clinical practice.

Participants can earn 1.5 contact hours of nursing continuing professional development credit. Each nursing participant must be present for the entire session and must complete an evaluation of the session to receive credit.

Demetrice Smith, DNP, FNP-C, CNM

Location

Accessible via Zoom.

No relevant financial relationships were identified for any individual who can control this activity’s content. The presenter and activity planners for this educational activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

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