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Past Meetings

Here you will find a listing of our prior meetings.

10.09.2025
Authoritative: Knowledge in the Perinatal Period - Dr. Maggie Butler, PhD, CLC

09.11.2025
Meet & Mingle - Burr Ridge Birth Center

08.14.2025
Why Does Breastfeeding Feel So Hard? - Katie Prezas, IBCLC

08.02.2025
NILCA Family Fair

06.12.2025
Breastfeeding Made Simple(r) - Dr. Whitney Fandel, 

04.10.2025
The Feeding-Sleep Connection - Jill Mailing, IBCLC

03.15.2025
Spring Meet & Mingle

02.13.2025
Beyond Fenugreek: An Individualized Approach to Herbal Galactogogues

10.10.2024
Infant Sensory Motor Development & Whole Body Feeding

08.08.2024
Breastfeeding Aversion & Agitation

08.06.2024
Self-Care for the Lactation Professional

07.11.2024
Spectrum of Success: Measuring Success in Every Feeding Journey

04.11.2024
Changing Fathers’ Attitudes Toward Breastfeeding Through Education

02.08.2024
Cultivating Peer Support Groups that Benefit Your Clients AND Your Practice

11.09.2023
Practice, Preach, Advocate! How to Champion Laws & Policies That Support Lactation & Health Equity

10.12.2023
Surviving to Thriving: A Panel Discussion About Running a Private Practice

08.10.2023
Flange Sizing 101: Simple Ways to Support Better Flange Sizing for Your Clients

06.15.2023
Making More with Less: Optimizing Milk Production While Minimizing the Use of Tools & Devices

05.19.2023
NIBTF & NILCA Virtual Lactation Conference

04.13.2023
Strategies for Supporting the Bottle-Refusing Baby

02.09.2023
Simplifying Breastfeeding Through Effective Communication

10.13.2022
Integrative Milk Banking: Safety, Science, and Community Engagement

08.11.2022
The Use of FEES in the Breastfeeding Infant

06.09.2022
COVID-19 in Pregnancy & Lactation.

04.14.2022
Postpartum Mood Disorders & Breastfeeding

02.10.2022
Structural Racism & Barriers to Breastfeeding on Chicagoland’s South Side

10.14.2021
Life After Loss: When Breastfeeding Is Traumatic

08.12.2021
What's New in Lactation?

06.10.2021
Lactation Pain: To Yeast or Not To Yeast, That is the Question

04.08.2021
Breastfeeding & Tongue Tie: More Than a Frenotomy

02.11.2021
We've Both Been Waiting for This! The path to breastfeeding a preemie & NICU M.O.M. (mother's own milk)

12.09.2020
Show N' Tell, Tools & Tricks

10.08.2020
PT: What to Look for in Babies, Know When to Refer

08.13.2020
Nutrition and Elimination Diets in Lactating Women

06.11.2020
Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders – It’s not just depression!

02.13.2020
Continuity in Breastfeeding Care: How a Family Practice Doctor Helps Pregnant & Breastfeeding Mothers

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