Dr. Mom has a Variety of Presentation Topics to Choose From for your Events or Conference
Life Balance
ParentingBreastfeedingSpirituality
Life Balance Speaker – Topic Summaries
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Improving the Quality of Your Journey – presentation summary
Americans have so normalized activity overload that “busy, busy, busy” has become the all-too-familiar mantra for the new millennium. As one of the most sought after women motivational speakers, Dr. Mom is proud to offer this informative, entertaining, and motivational life balance message, which is one of her most frequently requested programs.
Other Work-Life Balance Presentation Topics Include:
- Keys to Contentment: Insights from Positive Psychology that Increase Happiness and Well-Being
- The Art of Growing Older
Expert and Positive Parenting Speaker – Topics Summaries
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Self-Esteem and Emotional Health – presentation summary
Of all the awesome responsibilities parents assume, few are more daunting than helping children develop healthy self-esteem. Self-esteem – a composite inner picture about one’s worth and competence – is one of the most important, and yet misunderstood, concepts in parenting.
Positive Discipline – presentation summary
Few aspects of parenting provoke as much trepidation as managing children’s behavior – and for good reason. Ineffective discipline methods can leave parents feeling frustrated and children feeling misunderstood, causing damage to the parent-child relationship.
Ten Essentials for Effective Parents – presentation summary
Contemporary parents face unique pressures and role overload that can undermine family life and jeopardize children’s outcome. This presentation offers an overview of practical suggestions for improving parenting skills and strengthening families.
Breastfeeding Promotion and Management Speaker – Topic Summaries
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Baby-Friendly Designation! – Implementing the “Ten Steps” to Successful Breastfeeding – presentation summary
Despite the brevity of the post-birth hospitalization, mounting evidence confirms that making institutional changes in maternity care practices can significantly increase breastfeeding initiation and duration rates. This presentation will educate health professionals 
concerning the “whys” and “hows” of implementing the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative’s Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding. The program also will discuss effective strategies to prepare expectant mothers for an optimal hospital breastfeeding experience.
Applying Evidenced-Based Strategies to Increase Exclusive and Extended Breastfeeding
A growing body of research evidence confirms that the improved health outcomes associated with breastfeeding are dose-related, with exclusive breastfeeding for six months conferring the maximum infant and maternal health benefits. This session will briefly summarize the recent literature identifying evidence-based clinical strategies that promote exclusive breastfeeding. In addition, Dr. Neifert will share effective counseling strategies targeting the common barriers that undermine exclusive breastfeeding.
“Just a Few Weeks Early:” Breastfeeding Challenges in Late-Preterm Infants – presentation summary
This presentation will address the special breastfeeding challenges among late-preterm infants and offer helpful guidelines to ensure a plentiful milk supply and a thriving baby. The extra investment of time and effort to safeguard early breastfeeding among these vulnerable newborns can set the stage for long-term successful breastfeeding.
Keeping Breastfeeding Going: Keys to a Plentiful Milk Supply – presentation summary
This presentation will offer strategies to help women establish and maintain a plentiful milk supply throughout their baby’s first year. Topics to be discussed include: the critical importance of the first two weeks in establishing an abundant milk supply; the essential role of “prevention pumping” among mothers of infants at risk for inadequate breastfeeding, and much more.
The Important Role of Lactation Consultants and Breastfeeding Proponents in Reducing SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Infant Deaths – presentation summary
Lactation consultants and other health professionals who work with expectant and new mothers have the opportunity and ethical responsibility to help reduce preventable sleep-associated deaths in infancy. This session will explore the environmental, biologic, and social risk factors for SIDS and acute suffocation or strangulation in bed (ASSB) and review the latest American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement and Technical Report on “SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Infant Deaths.” Dr. Neifert will also discuss the newly launched NIH “Safe to Sleep Campaign”.
Life in Balance: Improving the Quality of Your Journey – presentation summary
In addressing the universal quest of contemporary life – finding a balance – Dr. Mom offers timeless practical life-strategies to equip lactation consultants and other health professionals to clarify governing values, establish priorities, reduce stress, downscale and simplify, cultivate healthy coping skills, and promote essential self-care.
Comprehensive Breastfeeding Training for WIC Professional and Paraprofessional Staff – presentation summary
This comprehensive 3-day training is designed to prepare WIC professional and selected paraprofessional staff to provide effective assessment and counseling for expectant women and breastfeeding clients who have been identified as high risk per the NRF 52 description. Practical, clinically relevant information will be presented and supplemented with a course syllabus of resource materials and a variety of practicum opportunities.
Troubleshooting Breastfeeding Problems – presentation summary
This presentation addresses the prevention, recognition, and clinical management of the common maternal and infant breastfeeding concerns that often lead to early weaning.
Insufficient Milk Syndrome – presentation summary
This presentation reviews the magnitude of the problem of lactation insufficiency and distinguishes rare “primary” (non-preventable, non-remediable) causes of insufficient milk (including breast surgery and breast variations) from common, often remediable, “secondary” causes linked to poor breastfeeding management.
Spirituality and Christian Women’s Retreat – Topic Summaries
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Female Role Overload and the Quest for Balance – presentation summary
Even women of faith know the feeling – too much to do and too little time or energy to do it all well. This program is for women in every season of life who want to exercise greater spiritual discernment in choosing when to “go and do” and when to “sit and be filled.” Discover how intimate daily encounters with our Lord serve to refresh our spirits and replace our cares and worries with the reassuring peace, presence, and power of God.
Happiness and the Abundant Life – presentation summary
This program will explore the Biblical basis for the contemporary principles of positive psychology that promote authentic happiness and the abundant life. Discover simple, life-changing insights, attitudes, and practices that create more positive energy and enable us to live at the upper end of our inborn level of happiness–recognizing and celebrating the fundamental goodness of life.
Healing and Wholeness: Transformative Encounters with Jesus in the Gospels – presentation summary
This program/retreat is for every woman who desires a closer relationship with God, longs to experience God’s unconditional love, and seeks to be called to new life in Christ. Re-discover Jesus as a living, transformative presence…to meet and journey with every day.
All in the Family Parenting Series – presentation summary
This program is aimed at helping parents fulfill their responsibilities and reap the abundant rewards of the important stewardship and awesome privilege of parenting. Learn to apply Biblical principles to foster your child’s self-esteem, promote desired behavior, effectively handle misbehavior, and teach responsibility.
God’s Model for Promoting Healthy Self-Esteem in Children – presentation summary
Self-esteem—a composite inner picture about one’s worth and competence—is one of the most important, and yet misunderstood, concepts in parenting. Dr. Mom will provide practical strategies for helping children feel unconditionally loved and worthy and capable of handling the choices, challenges, and changes of life.
Teaching Children about Faith – presentation summary
Young children, with their unbridled imagination and magical sense of wonder, have an innate desire to know God. Learn how to transmit spiritual beliefs as a routine part of daily life and help children formulate a positive image of God.
Other Spirituality Presentation Topics Include:
- Faithful Aging: A Christian Perspective on Growing Older
- Forgiveness and Healing
- A Christian View of Suffering and Evil
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