In this episode, Lynn interviews Sonya Boersma. Sonya is a Masters educated Registered Nurse and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She’s been working with new families for over 25 years from many angles such as teaching prenatal, nursing in labour and delivery up north, working as a birth doula, and supporting parents postpartum. She has taught after-birth-care to nursing students and had taught many types of health professionals about best practices around infant feeding. She knows what a big difference breastfeeding makes not only to health but to a mothers’ sense of providing for her infant. The pandemic was a pivot point and created a sense of urgency to fully lift up mothers with breastfeeding in 2021.

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Learn about creative solutions to providing breastfeeding support during the pandemic. The discussed innovative strategies may be applied to a wide variety of practices and organizations. These panel presenters, Erin Shaheen, Gillian Szollos, Cindy Kaye, Sue Theriault Valin, Jos Anderson, and Sonya Boersma, share information about virtual breastfeeding education and support created as solutions to the COVID-19 environment. Hosted by the Champlain Maternal Newborn Regional Program (CMNRP).

In this video, the information is presented by a midwife, Susan Lorenz and the founder of Lactation Care, a Lactation Consultant, Sonya Boersma. Questions from parents are answered by the experts and a number of current online resources are shared. The COVID-19 pandemic raises many questions for expectant and new parents. Concerns and changes in practice regarding pregnancy, birth, newborn care, breastfeeding and skin-to-skin are discussed.