What Happens After Families Go Home? Understanding Real-World Breastfeeding Challenges and Parent Experiences

This webinar will help hospital teams better understand the breastfeeding challenges mothers experience after discharge and identify opportunities to improve education, support, and continuity of care. This session will provide insight into what parents commonly report once they return home, including barriers to breastfeeding continuation, conflicting messaging, emotional stressors, and gaps between hospital education and home realities. The webinar will also explore how hospitals, community organizations, and WIC programs can work together to create more consistent, supportive breastfeeding experiences for mothers. Speaker Asia Sartor, BHWP, CHES, IBCLC Management Analyst IV / Peer Counselor Program Coordinator Infant Feeding Branch, WIC Program Health & Developmental Services Section Department of Health, Developmental & Independence Services Texas Health and Human Services Commission Moderator Alice Gong, MD Professor of Pediatrics Director, Premiere Program Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine UT Health San Antonio TCHMB Chair Continuing Education: McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 nursing continuing professional development ANCC contact hour(s). Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of the...