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Health professional workshops

The Australian Breastfeeding Association offers workshops for health professionals covering a range of topics related to breastfeeding management and promotion.

Workshop delivery

The workshops are delivered via an online platform.

Workshop costs (including GST)

Half day Member $120 Non-member $135 

Full day Member $235 Non-member $265 

2 Day Member $400 Non-member $450 

Note: Registrations close COB Thursday before the workshop. Be sure get your registrations in early to avoid disappointment!

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Workshop details*

Managing breastfeeding - 26 July 2025
Date and time

Saturday, 26 July 2025
9 am to 4 pm AEST 

Delivery

Online - This workshop will be recorded and available to view later

Learn about 

Essential principles of lactation 

Management of: 

  • Insufficient milk intake
  • Engorgement, localised inflammation and mastitis
  • Oversupply and fast flow
  • Nipple pain
  • Breast refusal
  • Breastfeeding multiples
  • Relactation and induced lactation  
  • Weaning 
Presented by

Narelle Dwyer, IBCLC, RN, Midwife, ABA Breastfeeding Counsellor

Shona Cassels, IBCLC, BSc, Cert IV in Breastfeeding Education, ABA Breastfeeding Counsellor

 

Register now
 

Sleep and Settling; Coping with the challenges of becoming a breastfeeding mother - 6 September 2025
Date and time

Saturday, 6 September 2025
9 am to 4 pm AEST

Delivery

Online - This workshop will be recorded and available to view later

Learn about 

Sleep and settling 

  • Normal infant sleep
  • Recommendations for safe infant sleep
  • Sleep and settling techniques 

Coping with the challenges of becoming a breastfeeding mother 

  • Stages in life
  • Communication skills
  • Adjusting to becoming a parent
  • Normal baby behaviour
  • Issues including post-natal depression, anxiety and grief
  • Changes in relationships  
Presented by

Leila Forde, IBCLC, Cert IV in Breastfeeding Education, Dip Breastfeeding Management, Dip VET, Grad Dip Counselling and Psychotherapy, BA(Hons)/Dip Ed, MA, PACFA reg (Clinical)

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Infant and maternal nutrition; Use of infant formula - 25 October 2025
Date and time

Saturday, 25 October 2025
9 am to 4 pm AEDT

Delivery

Online - This workshop will be recorded and available to view later

Learn about 

Infant & maternal nutrition

  • The composition of breastmilk
  • Infant feeding recommendations
  • Infant growth
  • Introduction of solid foods
  • Maternal nutritional needs
  • Reasons for the use of breastmilk substitutes  

Use of infant formula

  • The range of breastmilk substitutes  
  • Regulation of marketing
  • Cultural influences
  • Guidelines for use of breastmilk substitutes
  • Reputable sources of information
  • Recommendations for formula preparation  
  • Impacts of breastmilk substitutes
  • Methods of feeding breastmilk substitutes to infants  
  • Reducing breastmilk substitutes   
Presented by

Kathleen Halliday, IBCLC, BNutrDiet, Dietitian (APD), Cert IV Breastfeeding Education

Jamie Errico, IBCLC, BNutrDiet, Dietitian (APD), Cert IV Breastfeeding Education 

Register now

Medications and breastfeeding - February 2026
Date and time

TBA

Delivery

Online - This workshop will be recorded and available to view later.

Learn about 
  • Principles of medications and breastfeeding 

  • Medications commonly prescribed to breastfeeding mothers 

Presenter

Rodney Whyte OAM, Therapeutic Medicines specialist, Monash Health and Monash University

Registrations for this workshop are now closed

Evaluating breastfeeding research - March 2026
Date and time

To be confirmed

Delivery

Online - This workshop will be recorded and available to view later.

Learn about 
  • Factors specific to breastfeeding research 

  • How to analyse breastfeeding research 

Presenter

To be confirmed

Registrations now closed

 

Assessing breastfeeding - April 2026
Date and time

To be confirmed

Delivery

Online - This workshop will be recorded and available to view later

Learn about 
  • Anatomy, physiology, and endocrinology of lactation
  • Infant factors affecting lactation
  • Biomechanics of breastfeeding
  • Communicating with mothers  
  • Establishing lactation
  • Assessing a breastfeed 
Presented by

 

 

Registrations for this workshop are now closed
 

Breastfeeding counselling skills - May 2026
Date and time

To be confirmed

Delivery

Interactive online workshop held over 2 days.

Learn about
  • Client-centered communication techniques
  • Explaining breastfeeding information to clients
  • Using breastfeeding counselling skills
  • Cultural considerations to breastfeeding
  • Breastfeeding counselling in a culturally diverse environment
Presented by

 

Protecting breastfeeding - June 2026
Date and time

To be confirmed

Delivery

Online - Participants will be required to complete e-Learning modules prior to the workshop.

This workshop will be recorded and available to view later

Learn about 
  • Societal issues that impact on breastfeeding 

  • Breastfeeding friendly environments 

  • Legal and ethical guidelines in lactation practice 

Presented by

 

 

Registrations for this workshop are now closed

* Disclaimer: ABA reserves the right to change the dates, times, program or presenters. 

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