Laurel Wilson
IBCLC, BSc, RLC, CLE, CLD. CCCE, CPPI
CO, US
Laurel Wilson, IBCLC, RLC, BSc, CCCE, CLE, CLD, CPPFE, CPPI is a TEDx and international keynote speaker traveling the world to spread the word about the importance of human milk feeding. She has her degree in Maternal and Child Health – Lactation Consulting. Laurel brings twenty-six years of experience working with women in the childbearing year and perinatal professionals. She is the co-author of best-selling books, The Greatest Pregnancy Ever: The Keys to the MotherBaby Bond and The Attachment Pregnancy: The Ultimate Guide to Bonding with Your Baby. She currently spends a great deal of her time working with hospitals seeking BabyFriendly Status as a consultant and educator. Laurel has received her training with Union Institute and University, Healthy Children, DONA, ALACE, CAPPA, Birthworks, Whole Birth Yoga and Prenatal Parenting. Laurel is a board-certified as a lactation consultant, childbirth educator, labor doula, lactation educator, Prenatal ParentingTM Instructor, and Pre and Postpartum fitness educator. She served as the CAPPA Executive Director of Lactation Programs for 16 years and now is on the Senior Advisory team. She is on the Board of Directors for the United States Breastfeeding Committee and also on the Advisory Board for InJoy Health. Laurel has been joyfully married to her husband for nearly three decades and has two beautiful sons, whose difficult births led her on a path towards helping emerging families create positive experiences. She believes that the journey towards and into parenthood is a life-changing rite of passage that should be deeply honored and celebrated.
Laurel Wilson, IBCLC, RLC, BSc, CCCE, CLE, CLD, CPPFE, CPPI is a TEDx and international keynote speaker traveling the world to spread the word about the importance of human milk feeding. She has her degree in Maternal and Child Health – Lactation Consulting. Laurel brings twenty-six years of experience working with women in the childbearing year and perinatal professionals. She is the co-author of best-selling books, The Greatest Pregnancy Ever: The Keys to the MotherBaby Bond and The Attachment Pregnancy: The Ultimate Guide to Bonding with Your Baby. She currently spends a great deal of her time working with hospitals seeking BabyFriendly Status as a consultant and educator. Laurel has received her training with Union Institute and University, Healthy Children, DONA, ALACE, CAPPA, Birthworks, Whole Birth Yoga and Prenatal Parenting. Laurel is a board-certified as a lactation consultant, childbirth educator, labor doula, lactation educator, Prenatal ParentingTM Instructor, and Pre and Postpartum fitness educator. She served as the CAPPA Executive Director of Lactation Programs for 16 years and now is on the Senior Advisory team. She is on the Board of Directors for the United States Breastfeeding Committee and also on the Advisory Board for InJoy Health. Laurel has been joyfully married to her husband for nearly three decades and has two beautiful sons, whose difficult births led her on a path towards helping emerging families create positive experiences. She believes that the journey towards and into parenthood is a life-changing rite of passage that should be deeply honored and celebrated.
Up in Smoke: The Potential Impact of Cannabis During Pregnancy and Lactation
Weathering, Human Milk Feeding, and the Epigenome: The Implications of Racism, Equity, and Prenatal
Abstract:
Recent research on epigenetics, literally meaning above the gene, has led medical professionals to query about how the environment impacts the developing baby both in utero and throughout its lifetime. The genome is the genetic information inherited from one's parents, but the epigenome is what deciphers the genome for each cell throughout the body. This deciphering process is impacted by an...
Neo What? The Fabulous and Fascinating Role of Neohormones in Reproduction and Lactation
Objectives:
- Define the term neohormones.
- In which class of vertebrate animals (ie. amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals) did neohormones evolve?
- Identify three neohormones important for lactation.
Abstract:
As mammals evolved, a new variety of hormone began to develop. The unique demands of having placentas and making milk...
The Magic Of Human Milk: Neohormones, the epigenome, the microbiome, and more!
Abstract:
As humans evolved, the milk specific to nourishing, protecting, and developing their babies went through an incredible transformation. The unique demands of having placentas, growing large brains, and making milk for infants that required rapid maturation post-delivery led to a unique set of neohormones. Neohormones not only facilitate reproduction in the mammal, but they direct the...
Hold the Phone! Diet Does Matter During Breastfeeding: Implication of Diet on Fatty Acid Composition
For more than a decade most lactation professions have been suggesting to families that diet matters very little in terms off breastmilk composition. We have told parents that they can essentially eat whatever they want, it does not matter to the bottom line. However, new studies imply that in fact, diet does matter in terms of the composition of fatty acids and essential nutrients available in milk that can potentially...
The Times Are A Changing: Discovering Strategies for Effective and Engaging Perinatal Education
Lactation and childbirth education has come a long way in the past few decades and yet, the research shows that most of what is offered is not what is advantageous for parents in this day and age. Laurel Wilson has been a lactation/childbirth educator, faculty, and lactation director in the community, in hospital settings, and for professionals for nearly two decades, and she has seen what works and what clearly fails. It is...
Talk To Me: How Breastmilk Acts as a Communication and Gene Expression Tool Between Mother and Child
CERP: yes
Breastmilk has long been understood to be a pathway towards long-term health for both mother and child. The specific mechanisms for how this communication works has long been studied and today many researchers believe that messenger RNAs and stem cells contribute in many ways to appropriate developmental pathways for the baby and cause gene activation that promotes health for life. mRNA in breastmilk can...
Going Viral (and bacterial): Lyme and Zika when Pregnant and Breastfeeding
Abstract:
With the recent spread of the virus, Zika and the bacterial infection, Lyme Disease, many pregnant and breastfeeding families worry about the potential impact on their babies. There is a great deal of inaccurate information on the internet regarding these diseases that many parents encounter. Having good resources and current information on these emerging diseases is imperative for new...
The Impact of Social Media on Parents Today
Many healthcare providers wish to utilize social media to engage, education, inform and interact with their patients and patients to be. However, due to a lack of distinct guideline and misunderstanding about privacy practices with social media, many healthcare providers are unknowingly sharing personal and private healthcare information. Infant formula companies have been strategizing how to best use social media...
Are You Really Listening? Using Mindfulness and Three Part Communication for Better Communication
CERP: yes
Many peer counselors and lactation professionals are taught basic counseling skills without any knowledge of body language or mindfulness skills which does not contribute to deep listening or the ability to fully understand the depth of the clients issue and need. Attendees will be able to use proper listening skill, appropriate body language, and mindfulness while employing Three Part Listening Skills...
Can a Baby Be Allergic to Breastmilk: Sensitivities, Allergies, Galactosemia, and Lactose Intoleranc
CERP: yes
Can A Baby Be Allergic to Breastmilk? - Sensitivities, Allergies, Galactomsemia, and Lactose Intolerance
Lactation professionals often hear from their clients that their breastfed babies have been diagnosed as lactose intolerance. This lack of understanding regarding types of lactose intolerance and potential issues with breastfeeding involving the newborn gut often lead...
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