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Core Competency

Core Competency. Recognize how personal beliefs and attitudes influence mothers’ breastfeeding decisions. . Learning Objective. Identify own personal beliefs and attitudes about breastfeeding. Utah WIC. First Time for Everything. Unity Healthcare WIC, Washington, DC.

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Core Competency

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  1. Core Competency • Recognize how personal beliefs and attitudes influence mothers’ breastfeeding decisions.

  2. Learning Objective • Identify own personal beliefs and attitudes about breastfeeding. Utah WIC

  3. First Time for Everything Unity Healthcare WIC, Washington, DC

  4. Perceptions of Breastfeeding • Feelings are part of who we are • Reflect on: • Feelings • Experiences • Beliefs • Our job: educate and support Miami-Dade WIC, Miami, FL

  5. What If? Handout 2.1: “What If?”

  6. I Don’t Want to Make Mothers Feel Guilty • Our job: Honor and support the parents’ right to choose how they feed their baby • “Breastfeeding: Another Way of Saying I Love You” (Mississippi WIC State Agency)

  7. Other Feelings To Consider • Embarrassment • When participants demand infant formula North Miami WIC, Miami, FL

  8. What If I’m Not an Expert? • Planting seeds • Be an expert… in encouragement! Miami-Dade WIC, Miami, FL

  9. What’s Growing in Your WIC Garden?

  10. WIC Staff Make the Difference

  11. Summary • As we focus on becoming more competent in helping WIC mothers with breastfeeding, an important first step is to explore our own experiences so that we can better understand where our feelings originated.

  12. “My Goals for Breastfeeding Support” Goal-Setting Flower Grow Your Breastfeeding Skills

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