Guest: Anna Swisher, IBCLC, Board-Certified Lactaction Consultant
In this episode:
- Explain how skin-to-skin play can help establish breastfeeding in the NICU
- List three tools or products that may help a NICU baby breastfeed, or to increase a lactating parent’s milk production
- Share two ways a nurse can encourage a mom who is having trouble breastfeeding
About Anna Swisher
Anna Swisher, MBA, IBCLC, has been a board-certified lactation consultant for almost 22 years, and a La Leche League Leader since 1995. She has worked in both private practice and in hospitals. Anna has also worked as the clinical coordinator for Mothers’ Milk Bank at Austin. Anna is the co-author of Counseling the Nursing Mother (with Judith Lauwers), now in its seventh edition. This lactation textbook has won Book of the Year award twice from the American Journal of Nursing: first place in 2005, and second place in 2015.
Currently, Anna is one of four co-authors writing the ninth edition of La Leche League’s classic
breastfeeding book, The Art of Breastfeeding (formerly titled, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding), to be published in October. Anna spent eleven years in the corporate marketing world before becoming a mother. Mom of three grown children, Anna has three adorable grandsons and she and her husband live near Austin, Texas. Professionally, Anna loves empowering parents in acquiring their parental role, and educating families to meet their breastfeeding goals. She also enjoys speaking at conferences and mentoring the next generation of health care givers in lactation science.