After COVID-19: The Breastfeeding Mom’s Strategy for Returning to the Workplace

As post-pandemic plans begin to emerge in communities, breastfeeding mothers will need to consider their own return to the workplace. Thoughtful preparations now can ease the transition for you, baby, and other caregivers — for your first day back and beyond. Healthy Horizons CEO Sheila Janakos is a lactation consulting expert who has been coaching nursing mothers with back-to-workplace strategies for 30 years. Sheila will share secrets for your success, including these tips and more: 

· Choosing the correct pump, products, and tools for a worry-free experience

· Safe collection and storage of milk

· Ideal feeding amounts for younger and older babies

Length and Format: 45 minutes (30 minutes presentation; 15 minutes Q&A with questions submitted via text chat)

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Our Speaker:

Sheila Janakos is CEO of Healthy Horizons, a role to which she brings 30 years of experience in providing breastfeeding guidance and education. She earned a B.S. in Community Health Education from San Francisco State University and M.P.H. in Public Health Education from San Jose State University. She is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and a Certified Lactation Educator. In November 2019, Sheila was honored with Silicon Valley Business Journal’s C-Suite Award for her three decades as a business entrepreneur, lactation consulting innovator and advocate for nursing mothers at work and at home. An accomplished public speaker, Sheila has also shared her expertise as the radio host of “Babies and Beyond” on Voice America Talk Radio Network from 2004 to 2007.

About Healthy Horizons: 

Founded in 1991 and based in Burlingame, California, Healthy Horizons is the first company to offer comprehensive workplace mother’s rooms maintenance and lactation-at-work benefits at scale across North America. Healthy Horizons sets up and maintains mother’s rooms and breast pumps, offers on-site and online classes and education, and ongoing support to empower nursing mothers at work and at home. Healthy Horizons operates two breastfeeding centers and a pump pick-up facility in the San Francisco Bay Area. Major employers currently rely on Healthy Horizons in over 80 cities throughout the U.S. and Canada. Learn more: https://www.healthyhorizonsonline.com/

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