Nurture the Mother, Nourish the Baby: Breastfeeding for Family Wellness

This webinar blends clinical insight with real-world guidance to highlight how emotional wellness influences breastfeeding success. The session includes mental health education, practical feeding strategies, and a hands-on hand expression lesson to strengthen family wellness and confidence.

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Describe how emotional wellness and stress physiology influence breastfeeding success, including let-down, milk supply, and parental confidence.
• Identify common maternal mental health symptoms—such as anxiety, intrusive thoughts, irritability, and emotional overload—that may appear during breastfeeding.
• Apply practical feeding strategies and trauma-informed communication techniques that support both lactation and parental emotional wellbeing.
• Demonstrate basic hand expression and explain when this skill is useful, including during colostrum days, engorgement, pumping, and emotional grounding.