Women's Health Grand Rounds

Supplements and Breastfed Infants

Breastfeeding Grand Rounds 2001 sponsored by the NYS Institute for Human Lactation

Program:

• Identifying when Breastfed Babies Do and Do Not Require Supplements

Clinical Lecture by Ruth A. Lawrence, M.D. Author of Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical Profession; Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Rochester

• The Surgeon General’s Blueprint for Action on Breastfeeding

Public Health Lecture by Mary Applegate, M.D., M.P.H. Medical Director, Bureau of Women’s Health, NYS Department of Health

Objectives:
After viewing the broadcast, participants will be able to:

• Describe when breastfed infants do and do not require supplements
• Describe the main points of the Surgeon General’s recently released Blueprint for Action on Breastfeeding

Satellite broadcast originally aired May 3, 2001

Major support for this program comes from the NYS Department of Health and the USDHHS Material and Child Health Bureau.