Breastfeeding Basics: The Term Infant with Problems

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants should be able to evaluate and treat breastfeeding infants with jaundice.

2. Participants should be able to recognize, evaluate and arrange treatment for breastfeeding infants with poor weight gain.

Contents of This Module

1. Pre-module Evaluation

2. Early Jaundice
   • Diagnosis and Evaluation
   • Treatment
   • Case Study 21

3. Breast Milk Jaundice
   • Treatment
   • Case Study 22

4. Infants with Poor Weight Gain
   • Case Study 23
   • Etiologies
   • Evaluation
   • Management
   • Prevention
   • Case Study 24
   • The "I don't have enough milk" Syndrome

5. Multiple Births - Twins or more

6. Breastfeeding and Hypoglycemia

7. Case Study 25 - Breastfeeding a Term Infant with a Transient Illness
   • Case Study 26

8. Premature Infants (In the Growth and Development section)

9. Infants with Congenital Anomalies
   • Case Study 27

10. Supplementing Breastfed Infants in a Physiologic Manner

11. Post-module Evaluation

12. References