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Lactation Support Space with Dr. Spatz In-Person
If you are breastfeeding, chestfeeding, pumping and bottle-feeding, pregnant and thinking about breastfeeding, formula-feeding and curious about breastfeeding, this conversation is for you. This interactive conversation will be led by Dr. Diane Spatz. Dr Spatz will provide an opportunity for expecting, new, and experienced parents to get help with lactation challenges and share helpful tips with one another.
This event is open to UPHS and University faculty, staff, students, post docs and their partners.
Thank you to collaborating partners: Penn Nursing and Penn Women's Center.
The Lactation Workshop will be held in the Family Resource Center. Registration is required. Attendees are welcome to come as early as 11:15 to settle in and to meet other families. The facilitated conversation will begin at 11:30.
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Family Center
3615 Locust Walk
Lower Level of the Graduate Student Center
There is a front and side building entrance, both with a device for Penn Card swipe-access as well as touch screen doorbells. The Family Center can be found when you come down the stairwell, or select “B” in the elevator.
If you have any difficulty with entry, please call 215-746-2701.
- Date:
- Tuesday, April 8, 2025
- Time:
- 11:30am - 12:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Reading Room
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Family Support
For more information about the facilitator: https://www.chop.edu/clinical-staff/spatz-diane-l
Diane L. Spatz, PhD, RN-BC, FAAN
Professor of Perinatal Nursing &
The Helen M. Shearer Professor of Nutrition
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Nurse Scientist-Lactation
Center for Pediatric Nursing Research and Evidence Based Practice
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Faculty Advisor to Student Nurses at Penn (SNAP)
Past-Chair American Academy of Nursing (AAN Expert Panel on Breastfeeding)
AAN Representative to United States Breastfeeding Committee
Treasurer-International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation
Edge Runner of the AAN