Bangkok--21 Jan--ScottAsia Communications
Date: Friday, January 25, 2013.
Time: 8.30 a.m. -- 5 p.m.
Venue: Bancha Lamsam Auditorium, 6/F, Building 2, Samitivej Sukhumvit Hospital
Fee: 500 Baht per person, including two coffee breaks and plate lunch
Facilitator: Well experienced instructors from Arugaan home centre in the Philippines
Language: English
Course content:
* Principles of lactation massage: Whys, Do's and Don'ts
* First steps and strokes in relaxing moms
* Right points and massage strokes to enhance lactation and flow
* Step by step guide -- the "How to's"
* Challenge the learning: Intervention to Bottle Feeding the Baby
Who should attend?
* Mothers and babies breast feeding now
* Mothers who may be having trouble breast feeding now
* Pregnant mothers who want to learn how to breast feed comfortably and properly when the time comes
For further information and reservation please contact 0-2354-8404, or email:
[email protected]
*Seats are limited to 50
Background on the workshop on
Increasing Milk Supply and Relactation:
The Power of Lactation Massage Skills
The objective of the Lactation Massage Skills sharing seminar is to show how to use the powerful intervention of lactation massage in Relactation process -- from bottle to breast, induced lactation, and for Moms who have given birth but lose confidence by saying "no milk", "less milk", "inadequate milk".
The Lactation Massage Skills seminar workshop will be a 'Hands-on Learning' demonstration. It will be a step by step demo on how to manage lactation in providing the Moms with comfort to bolster confidence, by helping her to relax to enable the release of hormones capable of breast milk production and enhance the flow of breast milk instantly.
Knowing the lactation points and learning the right and appropriate massage strokes are substantive learning that will be shared by experts Lactation Massage specialists / Trainers at the seminar.
This 'Hands-on Learning on Special Lactation Massage' was applied in the Peer Counselling Training, 2011-2012 by Philippines' Arugaan (Breastfeeding organization) Trainers for 5,000 Peer Counsellors (composed of doctors, nurses, midwives, mother leaders and health workers) from 20 cities. The project was funded by WHO Philippines.
Likewise, in 2010 UNICEF Manila funded an emergency response project, Relactation Journey, for 3,435 Mom-Baby pairs who were relactated successfully. They were the typhoon flood-mud survivors in Metro Manila and nearby areas. The project was managed by Arugaan Breastfeeding Counsellors and logistics were administered by Save the Children in the Philippines.
Lactation Massage skills have been honed over many decades and have proved effective. It is based on both science and tradition.
Thus, Arugaan Philippines is sharing this empowering intervention with fellow sisters in Thailand as requested by Thai Breastfeeding Centre and Samitivej Sukhumvit Lactation Clinic on January 25 in Bangkok.