Caring for the Fat Perinatal Client with Respect and Confidence - Kristin Cavuto, MSW, LCSW, IBCLC, RLC
To download Kristin’s bibliography for this presentation, click here
Kristin reminded us of the importance of regularly evaluating our bias with resources such as the Harvard Implicit Bias Test, and here you can download her Caring for your Fat Clients with Competence handout.
For more information about medical bias and bariatric surgery, please download Kristin’s references here.
Topic Overview: Fat people receive sub-par medical care from deeply biased providers in all settings, including before, during, and after pregnancy. This presentation will teach the perinatal care provider how to care for their fat clients without causing harm. It will educate on the myths and the facts about fatness, both medically and socially. It will discuss the ways in which perinatal care providers typically fail their fat clients, and it will provide methods for changing practice to provide unbiased, respectful, and competent client care.
Speaker Overview: Kristin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and IBCLC in private practice in central New Jersey. Her practice specialties are low supply, maternal and infant mental health, and the intersection of ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender in the care of the new family. She has spoken on various lactation, mental health, and equity topics for USLCA, the Lehigh Valley Breastfeeding Association Conference, the Appalachian Breastfeeding Conference, LPPEC, LC in PP, and for LLL of the Garden State. She designed and taught a training course on Mental Health First Aid for Perinatal Providers. She has been a featured speaker on several lactation related podcasts.
She is the mother of two children who nursed full term despite maternal IGT, and who are now 16 and 13. She is an anti-racist LGBT+ activist, a member of transformative works fandoms, and makes fighting for a better world part of her daily life.
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