IN PERSON: Not your run-of-the-mill bodywork course

Facilitating Functional Infant Feeding through Skills Mastery & Collaborative Care.

Oral dysfunction, frequently a result of oral restrictions, is a common cause of breastfeeding challenges, yet breastfeeding dyads often face an even greater challenge in identifying and accessing providers who are highly skilled in guiding them through the process of functional assessment and habilitation.

Collaborative care, when provided by skilled IBCLCs and manual therapists/bodyworkers affords the breastfeeding dyad the most supportive approach to attaining functional feeding.

For at least a decade, IBCLCs, and even release providers have come to recognize, if not even embrace the profound collaborative role the bodyworker plays, both in assessment and functional habilitation. However, IBCLCs are now better trained to recognize effective bodywork and have become frustrated with the need to refer to multiple bodyworkers of varying vocations due to ineffective outcomes.

While we might love being the "baby…