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ForwardTiming Matters: Early Lactation Support in NICU and High-Risk Newborns
April 14, 2027
Supporting the smallest patients starts with supporting their first nutrition.
Discover practical, evidence-based strategies to improve lactation outcomes for NICU and other high-risk infants. Through expert instruction and real-world clinical guidance, you'll learn how early milk production influences long-term outcomes, identify common barriers to successful lactation, and gain practical techniques to support families during this critical period. Leave with actionable strategies you can immediately incorporate into your practice to improve breastfeeding outcomes and provide the best possible start for vulnerable newborns.
Join us to strengthen your knowledge, enhance your practice, and make a lasting difference for the infants and families you serve!
Target Audience
This activity is designed for physicians and nurses who care for NICU and high-risk infant populations, including neonatologists, pediatricians, obstetricians, and nurses in labor and delivery, mother-baby, neonatal, and pediatric settings.
Learning Objectives
After this activity, participants will be able to:
- Describe the physiological processes that regulate early lactation and the effects of delayed breast stimulation.
- Explain how initiation of milk expression within the first hours after birth influences long-term milk production in mothers of NICU and high-risk infants.
- Identify barriers to successful lactation in NICU and high-risk populations.
- Outline evidence-based techniques for early milk expression and pump use.
- Apply strategies to educate and support families in establishing and maintaining lactation.
- Select appropriate interventions or resources when additional lactation support is needed.
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Online Webinar
Chicago, IL
60637
United States
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO FACULTY
Deborah Adegbosin, MD
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellow
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellow
Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an educational activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships before the start of the activity.
Additionally, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an educational activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships before the start of the activity.
Additionally, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
Physician Credit
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nursing Credit
University of Chicago Medicine is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Participants who successfully complete the entire activity and complete an evaluation form will earn 1 contact hour.
Other Participant Credit
Other participants will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
Please note: The credit-claiming process closes 1 month after the activity ends. Requests submitted more than 1 month after the event date may incur additional fees.
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Please note: The credit-claiming process closes 1 month after the activity ends. Requests submitted more than 1 month after the event date may incur additional fees.
Please note: The credit-claiming process closes 1 month after the activity ends. Requests submitted more than 1 month after the event date may incur additional fees.
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