Foundations for Health: Optimizing Baby's Microbiome During Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum

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Includes a Live Web Event on 01/21/2025 at 12:00 PM (EST)

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- Non-member - $65
- Non-Member - Group B - $25
- Non-Member - Group C - $25
- Non-Member - Group D - $25
- Member - $50
- Member - Group B - $20
- Member - Group C - $20
- Member - Group D - $20
- Parent - $50
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A significant part of setting up a healthy gut microbiome happens in the narrow window of labor, birth and early postpartum. A healthy infant microbiome plays a critical role in a child's long-term health. Birth workers can educate their clients how birth, skin to skin, and breast/chest feeding help to optimally seed and feed a baby's microbiome and how to mitigate the impact of cesarean birth, antibiotics and other interventions.

Session Objectives:
1. Describe the human microbiome
2. List the 6 seeding and feeding events that optimize baby's microbiome
3. Describe the special role of human milk in infant immune training
4. Discuss the effects of cesarean birth and antibiotics on the infant microbiome
5. List microbiome friendly birth practices

Participants may earn 1.50 Lamaze Contact Hours and 1.50 hours of CNE through the California Board of Registered Nursing.

A recording of the presentation will be made available within 24 hours of the live event.

Penny Bussell Stansfield

MAP (Microbirth Approved Provider), BA(Hons), BDT(DONA) AdvCD(DONA), LCCE, CLC, LMT

Penny has been a DONA International Advanced Birth Doula and Doula Trainer since 1998. Before moving to the US, she worked as a certified childbirth educator and a language teacher in France and her native UK for 20 years. She was a founder member of Desert Doulas nonprofit organization in Tucson, AZ in the 1990s and she is a founder member of the non-profit doula collective Support Birth.org working towards achieving birth equity in Arizona. She is committed to improving maternity care for all, one birth at a time and to mentoring new doulas and parents on their journey. She is a Microbirth Approved Provider, educating parents and birth workers on ways to establish a healthy gut microbiome in infants for long term health benefits. She is the author of “Labors of Love: A Doula’s Birth Stories”.

Instagram: @pennybussell

Websites:
https://www.pennydoula.com
https://pennydoula.teachable.com