Hi, I’m
Christine Opre, IBCLC
Huntersville
Summary
Caring Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) with advanced knowledge and passion for natural health care practices. Experienced developing and implementing over 300 individual breastfeeding plans for new mothers. Skillful conducting classes and creating breastfeeding educational resources for patients and general community.
Experienced in multiple settings such as hospital, birth center, clinic and in-home.
Experienced with multiple issues related to breastfeeding throughout my journey as a lactation consultant.
Overview
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Novant Health
Lactation Consultant
09.2023 - Current
Job overview
- Provide breastfeeding support and feeding plans to inpatients and outpatients.
- Collaborate with nurse practitioners and doctors to implement evaluations and feeding plans for the mother infant dyads.
- Evaluates the effectiveness of implemented interventions, adjusting care plans as needed based on progress toward desired goals.
- Conducts weighted feedings, oral tie evaluations, feeding assessments and education for infants and families.
- Comfortable with a fast pace, large hospital demand as well as a slower pace virtual platform for the patients needs.
Self Employed Services
Lactation Consultant IBCLC, CLC
04.2020 - Current
Job overview
- Provide in-home breastfeeding support for Mothers and Babies.
- Provide thorough evaluations of baby’s oral anatomy, mothers breast/s, feeding positioning, milk supply, milk transfer, etc.
- Evaluate the dyad and offer solutions for their breastfeeding issues.
- Create tangible personalized care plans for mothers to navigate through their breastfeeding issues.
- Provide on going support for mothers and babies throughout their breastfeeding journey.
- Educated and trained healthcare providers on health education practices for patients.
- Collaborated with other healthcare professionals to design and deliver health education services to clients.
- Created online collection of breastfeeding educational resources for patients and community.
- Kept abreast of current industry, scientific and regulatory developments and issues.
Natural Beginnings
Lactation Consultant
12.2020 - 12.2022
Job overview
- Worked with the lead IBCLC in evaluating dyads
- Worked in a hospital setting and birth center setting with babies who were just born.
- Worked with babies and mothers of all ages in the hospital and clinic setting.
- Provided breastfeeding evaluations, personalized care plans and charted notes in a professional hospital database using medical coding and verbiage.
- Taught breastfeeding intro classes for new mothers and mothers to be.
- Developed and implemented over 100 individual breastfeeding plans in 2 years.
Education
Nova Southeastern UniversityDavie, FL
Mental Health Counselor from Psychology
08.2004
Coastal Carolina UniversityConway, SC
Health Promotion from Health Administration
05.2000
Skills
- BLS certified
- Operational Standards
- Hospital Discharge Planning for mothers and infants
- Mental and Physical Assessments related to breastfeeding
- Complex Problem-Solving with minor and major breastfeeding issues
- Care Plan Evaluation
- Individualized Treatment Plans
- Breastfeeding Educational Programs
- Create Breastfeeding Educational Materials
- Infant Nutrition Advocacy
- Social Perceptiveness with empathetic care
- Promote Community Health
- Patient and Infant Care
- Compassionate Care
- Lactation Support
- Support Networks
- Conflict Resolution
- Training Seminars
- Maintain Databases
- Charting
- Prevention Strategies
- Direct Counseling
Timeline
Lactation Consultant
Novant Health
09.2023 - Current
Lactation Consultant
Natural Beginnings
12.2020 - 12.2022
Lactation Consultant IBCLC, CLC
Self Employed Services
04.2020 - Current
Nova Southeastern University
Mental Health Counselor from Psychology
Coastal Carolina University
Health Promotion from Health Administration
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