Examine the interplay between breastfeeding recommendations, breastfeeding practices, and women’s labour force participation. Learn how you can make lactation work for working parents!

Learning Objectives

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

1) Regognise how breastfeeding recommendations have shifted over the past four to five decades and how breastfeeding rates have been affected.
2) Explain how the dual demands of work and breastfeeding have intensified for breastfeeding parents.
3) Compare the unique qualities of breastfeeding as labour to other types of caregiving and domestic work.
4) Describe how breastfeeding parents are combining breastfeeding and work through logistics, challenges, and successes.
5) Demonstrate the role of the lactation advocate in supporting breastfeeding employees and the role of the IBCLC as a global advocate for breastfeeding employees.

This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved by the Virginia Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Commission on Accreditation. This enduring material is approved from June 15, 2026, to June 14, 2028.

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