GOLD Learning Speakers
Lyndsey Hookway, BSc, RNC, HV, IBCLC
- Speaker Type: GOLD Lactation 2019, Infant Sleep Symposium 2020, Breastfeeding and Medically Complex Infants Lecture Pack 2020, Clinical Tools for the Changing Landscape of Newborn Care Lecture Pack 2023, GOLD Lactation 2023
- Country: United Kingdom
Biography:
Lyndsey is an experienced paediatric nurse, children’s public health nurse, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, Holistic Sleep Coach, researcher and responsive parenting advocate. She has worked in hospitals, clinics, the community and within clients’ homes for 20 years, serving within the UK NHS, in private practice and voluntarily.
The co-founder and clinical director of the Holistic Sleep Coaching program, Lyndsey regularly teaches internationally, as well as providing mentorship for newer sleep coaches. She is passionate about responsive feeding, gentle parenting and promoting parental confidence and well-being.
With Professor Amy Brown, she is the co-founder of Thought Rebellion – an education and publishing company seeking to inspire, challenge and equip professionals and writers in the parenting, lactation and perinatal space with an evidence based revolution.
Lyndsey is currently a PhD researcher at Swansea University, exploring the needs and challenges of medically complex breastfed infants and children. In 2019 she set up the Breastfeeding the Brave project to raise awareness of the unique breastfeeding needs of chronically, critically, and terminally ill children in the paediatric setting. The mother of a childhood cancer survivor, she often talks about the impact of chronic serious illness on families, and seeks to support other families living through a serious childhood illness.
Lyndsey is a respected international speaker and teacher, and regularly speaks out against the dominant sleep training culture, as well as advocating for the rights of families to receive high-quality, compassionate and expert support. She is the author of Holistic Sleep Coaching (2018), Let’s talk about your new family’s sleep (2020), Still Awake (2021), Breastfeeding the Brave (2022) and co-author of The Writing Book (2022).
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Addressing Complex Sleep Problems While Optimizing Breastfeeding
Many health, lactation, and childcare professionals find themselves in a position where the families they work with require support with sleep. Without readily accessible, evidence-based, gentle and effective sleep support, some of these families turn to sleep training which often leaves breastfeeding abandoned in the quest for more sleep.
Understanding key sleep biology principles, and being able to apply these to both simple and complex sleep scenarios can empower parents with the tools they need to maintain breastfeeding while also getting more sleep. In this presentation, we will explore some key concepts, and apply them to some practical real-life examples of both adults and infant-related sleep problems.
Hours / CE Credits: 1.25 (details) | Categories:
(IBCLC) Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology, Infant Sleep, Sleep
Addressing Complex Sleep Problems While Optimizing Breastfeeding
Many health, lactation, and childcare professionals find themselves in a position where the families they work with require support with sleep. Without readily accessible, evidence-based, gentle and effective sleep support, some of these families turn to sleep training which often leaves breastfeeding abandoned in the quest for more sleep.
Understanding key sleep biology principles, and being able to apply these to both simple and complex sleep scenarios can empower parents with the tools they need to maintain breastfeeding while also getting more sleep. In this presentation, we will explore some key concepts, and apply them to some practical real-life examples of both adults and infant-related sleep problems.
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29 | Hours / CE Credits: 27.0
| Viewing Time: 8 Weeks
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1 | Hours / CE Credits: 1.25
| Viewing Time: 2 Weeks
Hours / CE Credits: 1.25 (details) | Categories:
(IBCLC) Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology, Infant Sleep, Sleep
You Can't Sleep With Your Foot On The Gas Pedal: How To Improve Sleep By Tapping Into Calm
Many parents become frustrated by their child's sleeping patterns. They may try to implement sleep schedules, or sleep training in an effort to try to manage their fatigue. However, understanding how sleep fundamentally works can not only optimise sleep, but also reduce parental frustration, improve connection, and increase confidence. Sleep occurs best in a non-stress state - therefore utilising strategies that increase child stress levels is likely to be counter-productive. Equally, experiencing stress for any reason may reduce the ease with which we can support sleep. This presentation discusses a holistic approach to supporting optimal regulation, attachment, emotional connectivity and naturally optimised sleep.
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5 | Hours / CE Credits: 5
| Viewing Time: 8 Weeks
Hours / CE Credits: 1 (details) | Categories:
(IBCLC) Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology, Infant Sleep
Breastfeeding Children with Cancer
Most children, happily, encounter no significant illness during childhood. Of those who do, some will be breastfed. Exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months, as well as continued breastfeeding alongside appropriate introduction of solid foods until the age of two years and beyond is recommended by the World Health Organisation. Breastfeeding is known to confer multiple well-documented protective properties, and the risks of not being breastfed are profound, even in well-developed countries.
Although breastfeeding reduces the overall risk of many serious childhood illnesses and malignancies, it is not a panacea. Many children who are breastfed optimally will still develop a serious health condition. This small group of children, and their families are an important population, with specific needs that are under-represented in policy, literature and professional training.
This presentation will identify specific childhood cancers, their prevalence and common treatments. It will also introduce some of the challenges experienced by parents breastfeeding their child through cancer, and some practical ways to support families facing this ordeal.
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6 | Hours / CE Credits: 6
| Viewing Time: 4 Weeks
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74 | Hours / CE Credits: 75
| Viewing Time: 52 Weeks
Supporting Families With Sleep While Optimising Attachment and Responsive Feeding
Many parents feel confused about how to approach sleep with their infants. There is a lack of consistent, evidence-based information about infant sleep, and in the context of ever-increasing contextual pressures, this can lead many parents to ask for help with sleep. However, sleep information that is respectful to mental health, attachment and breastfeeding can be hard to find, particularly when national guidelines seem to advocate approaches that promote a non-response. Perinatal professionals are uniquely placed in positions of trust with families, and possess advanced skills in listening, counselling and providing information. They are therefore well-placed to provide information to families about sleep proactively, which may reduce parental stress and frustration, and lead to fewer families becoming desperate and turning to solutions that include cessation of breastfeeding, separating parents and infants, and leaving infants to cry.
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6 | Hours / CE Credits: 6
| Viewing Time: 4 Weeks
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74 | Hours / CE Credits: 75
| Viewing Time: 52 Weeks
Hours / CE Credits: 1 (details) | Categories:
(IBCLC) Clinical Skills, (IBCLC) Education and Communication, (IBCLC) Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology, Bonding and Attachment, Infant Sleep
More Support in a Coffee Shop Than in the Hospital: Experiences of Breastfeeding Children With Medical Complexity
Breastfeeding may be natural, but it isn’t easy. Initiating and maintaining breastfeeding, and overcoming barriers can be hard for anyone, but breastfeeding a child with illness or medical complexity in the paediatric setting is uniquely challenging and presents different obstacles than those commonly experienced by parents feeding healthy term newborns or preterm neonates.
Current policies, BFHI standards, and training are weighted towards the initiation of breastfeeding or the establishment of effective pumping for a preterm infant. The needs and challenges of children beyond the neonatal period are largely unresearched. My systematic review in 2021 found seven key themes that provided some explanation as to why breastfeeding a child with medical complexity in paediatrics is different and more challenging to achieve.
My qualitative study in 2022 has provided novel insight and new data into the specific challenges encountered by parents of children with acute, chronic, complex and life-threatening illness in the paediatric ward or paediatric intensive care unit and provides tentative explanations and suggestions for how to approach this unique population to optimise their feeding experience.
In this presentation, learners will understand how to view the paediatric population as distinct from the maternity and neonatal population and appreciate some of the unique difficulties that these families face. Learners will also develop understanding of the need to merge clinical and lactation skills in a collaborative approach to care. Finally, new insights and awareness of the importance of expanding current training to meet the needs of this population will be shared.
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28 | Hours / CE Credits: 29.5
| Viewing Time: 8 Weeks
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1 | Hours / CE Credits: 1
| Viewing Time: 2 Weeks
