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Join us Oct 5th 7 pm PST via Zoom to learn from Avery Young! Check back for registration details coming soon! Bio: I’m a board-certified lactation consultant (IBCLC) and educator with over two decades of experience spanning clinical lactation care and science education. My work centers on the reflexive intersection of latching mechanics, oral motor function, and nervous system regulation—especially how these systems shape feeding outcomes in complex or unexpected cases. Ov

Please join us June 1st 7 pm PST via Zoom to learn from Court Wright Holistic Family Sleep Coach, NCS, PPD. Register in advance for this presentation! * please note that some participants have had trouble registering. Try using a different browser or incognito mode * Court is a Holistic Family Sleep Coach who supports families from pregnancy through childhood using evidence-based, responsive, and relationship-centered approaches to sleep. Their work helps parents unders

Supporting Breastfeeding Multiples will take you through from finding out there is more than one baby through birth and establishing breastfeeding, and onwards to maintaining breastfeeding. We discuss premature delivery and establishing milk production via expressing, and then transitioning onto the breast, We also cover late preterm and early term births and how to support these families to establish breastfeeding. Lastly we discuss the logistics of breastfeeding more than o

Presentation Recording - available temporarily by the generousity of our speaker! Please join us by registering for our bi-monthly education meeting for Monday, February 2nd at 7 pm PST (please note, some participants have experienced trouble registering using the iPhone browser. Zoom recommends that if you are unable to access the link, to try accessing the registration link in an incognito or a private browsing window or to clear your browser cache and cookies.) Topic

Join us December 1, 2025 with Sejal Fichadia, B.Sc ., B. Sc., IBCLC for our final education meeting of 2025! This presentation has been...

Join us October 6th at 7 pm PST to hear from Annette Leary, RN, BSN, IBCLC Recording is available for a limited time! Craniosacral...

OWLA is delighted to offer one full scholarship each IBLCE exam/recertification cycle. The scholarship will cover the testing or...

Joshua McDowell, MS, CCC-SLP, NTMTC Pediatric feeding and swallowing issues are never found alone. Dysphagia is NEVER a primary...

Inducing lactation may seem like milk-making magic. How can the breasts make milk without the hormones of pregnancy followed by the...

Feb 3, 2025 Misunderstanding a baby’s behavior undermines parent confidence, interferes with the developing parent-child relationship,...

Dec 2, 2024 Companies which market products to families of young children change their tactics often, and as lactation care providers,...

Oct 7, 2024 Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), is a leading cause of infertility that affects up to 20% of birthing parents. This...

Susan Howard, RN, MSN, IBCLC Presentation: Breastfeeding families are often advised to provide medical supplementation via bottles...

Sandra Zadkovic Presentation Description: This presentation will explore the intersections of climate change and breastfeeding and map...

Erika Dudley, IBCLC, CBS Presentation Description: “Why did they tell me to do [insert outdated or out-of-context saying about...

MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2023 Topic Overview: This talk will provide an overview of the key findings from the 2023 Lancet Breastfeeding...

Natalie Billings, RN, IBCLC MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2023 Topic Overview: This presentation will review what it was like being a business...

Genny Stiller, NP, IBCLC, C-NDLS MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2023 LINK TO RECORDING Handout: Presentation Handout PDF Further reading recommended:...

Meghan McMillan, MS, RD, IBCLC MONDAY, JUNE 5, 2023 There is a gap in knowledge on the implications of nutritional status and management...