Welcome to the May newsletter
Have you noticed when you ask someone how they are, instead of a report on their health they tell you how busy they are? With pressure like this on ourselves and mothers it's important to look after our health and our psyche, but also to choose convenient options for what we want to do whenever we can.
You may have noticed that our 'tag' line is "convenient, quality education". We've just made attending an International Conference convenient. The inaugural online conference, GOLD07 Conference is being sponsored by Health e-Learning. It's very exciting, affordable and CONVENIENT. One of our speakers also pointed out to me how eco-friendly it is - we should all be able to claim carbon credits for this one!
Convenience for busy mothers is also paramount with so many of them juggling homemaker and employed worker roles in addition to their mothering role. How do you make breastfeeding the 'convenient' infant feeding method for busy mothers? Is it all in the education, or is there more to it?
I hope you'll enjoy this newsletter and will join us in June at the GOLD07 Conference.
Enjoy those mothers and babies,
Denise Fisher, IBCLC
denise@health-e-learning.com
 GOLD07 Conference: Global Online Lactation Discussion Conference 2007
The GOLD07 Conference is an international online conference for those interested in breastfeeding and lactation issues.
At an international online conference delegates attend sessions from presenters around the world from their computer. You don't need anything special, except a sound card in your computer and a connection to the internet - even dial-up will be OK. An inexpensive headset would make the experience more personal, and a microphone will allow you to ask the presenter questions during question time, though you could just as easily type in your question.
It may be a live or a recorded session that you are attending. For the first 24 hours of the GOLD07 Conference the presentations will be live. You'll see the presenters' slides, hear them speaking and have question-time just as you do in a face-to-face conference. Most of the presenters will also be available to answer your questions in an asynchronous (ie not live) forum during the remainder of the week.
Should you not have been available or have slept through some of the live presentations (not considered to be rude at online conferences!) you can attend the recorded version of those sessions any time during the remainder of the week of the conference. Just how convenient is that!
There are also quite a few poster presenters at GOLD07. Poster presentations are pre-recorded and available for you to watch any time it is convenient to you during the week of the conference. Again, when available, poster presenters will have a forum where they can answer your questions and discuss issues with you.
Early bird registrations have opened already. Full registration is from May 21. Don't be surprised when you see how inexpensive it is despite the long list of top speakers you'll hear. Our goal in making this conference happen is to give as many people as possible access to the world's best speakers. Should the conference make a profit, the profits will be donated to breastfeeding supportive organisations.
Want to know more? Click HERE to go to http://www.goldcon07.com
Lactation Exam Practice
Lots of this year's IBLCE Exam candidates are refreshing their knowledge and honing their exam-taking skills using Lactation Exam Practice.
This program is available every year and gets more and more popular each year. And there's no need to wonder why when participants make comments like "I was really able to sharpen my skills in the reading of test questions, extracting important info and analyzing my way through the answers. I also learned a great deal from the exams. I found the exam questions to be, for the most part, well-written and meaningful."
If you're an IBLCE exam candidate this year I strongly recommend you enroll into this program now. You won't regret it! Go to Lactation Exam Practice to read more about it and enroll.
Breastfeeding IS convenient
Any good marketer will tell you that people will buy your product IF your product solves a problem for them. The fact that artificial infant formula could cause baby to be sick, have poorer developmental growth, be overweight, etc is not yet a problem for the new mother; but fitting in care of her baby with perhaps an early return to work, a busy household, etc is a foreseeable problem. Artificial feeding appears to provide a convenient solution.
Focusing on the issues mothers identify and discussing ways that breastfeeding will make life more convenient will help mothers to see how it can work.
This article, while published many years ago, gives some tips you could use to help mothers: The Convenience of Breast Feeding.
For some excellent websites to use yourselves and refer prospective mothers to, go to www.google.com and put working + breastfeeding into the search box.
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FREE PRESENTATION
As a part of the GOLD07 Conference there will be a pre-conference FREE presentation on June 18. Ros Escott, the Assistant Executive Director (International Operations) for the IBLCE will be presenting "Lactation Consultants: A global phenomenon".
Register today for this important professional talk.
CLICK HERE to register.
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Making Life Convenient
