Save the Date: New Horizons 2015
We’re thrilled to announce that New Horizons 2015 will be held Thursday, October 22, 2015 at the Brightwater Center in Woodinville, and will feature the fabulous Diane Weissinger, along with other local presenters to be announced. Complete details and program are still being developed, but this is going to be a wonderful event that you won’t want to miss!**
Tentative Topics:
Watch Your Language!
Our word choice often promotes formula-feeding. Even the researchers get it wrong! Learn how words like “still”, “but”, and “ideal” can undermine breastfeeding, look at how research outcomes change when the focus changes, and begin to develop a new and truly supportive language.
Note: A breastfeeding culture must also have a strong sense of breastfeeding as our biological norm. So far, we frame almost everything as if formula feeding were safe and normal. It takes a while to learn to reframe our thinking; there’s no better time to start than now!
Sleeping Together: History, Biology, Politics
Is sleeping with a baby risky? A look at primates, our past, electricity, definitions, settings, research, and the critical differences between breastfeeding and bottle-feeding. Bottom line: There is no known increase in risk when a non-smoking, sober, breastfeeding mother sleeps with her healthy, not-overheated baby on a safe surface.
Note: This talk draws comparisons between how we make car trips safe for infants and how we ought to think about sleep issues. Participants can evaluate various safe sleep handouts using a simple checklist.
Everything Else About Breasts
A look at fashion through the ages, health claims and their possible problems, lymph drainage, breast surgery, and breast cancer. There’s even a little bit about breastfeeding.
Note: This talk covers territory we may never even have considered, no matter how many years we’ve been “thinking about breasts.” It may even change how participants think about their own.
**Details are still being ironed out, and are subject to change.