Event Description: 

For this workshop our speakers Ann Oswood and Brielle Stoyke, both CNM and IBCLCs, will share their perspective on merging their work as IBCLCs and nurse midwives in their respective medical settings. Ann Oswood will speak to her experience with the new ABM mastitis protocol as well as highlighting the importance of supporting lactating families in all phases of pregnancy and postpartum. Brielle Stoyke's presentation will highlight her work supporting prenatal and postpartum families as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and how she helps manage medications with postpartum and lactating parents. 

Speakers:

Ann Oswood, ARPN, CNM, IBCLC
Ann Oswood has been working in maternal-child health for 34 years, most of that time as a certified nurse-midwife, and is thrilled that she has been able to spend 34 years with babies and their families!  She has worked as a RN and CNM in New Haven, Connecticut, and part-time nursing faculty and CNM in St. Louis, Missouri before returning to Minnesota where she has worked as CNM in both private practice and with HealthEast.  The last six years she has devoted to outpatient lactation consulting with MHealth Fairview, serving in three of their clinics.  She is passionate about helping families to feel confident and empowered in their parenting through breastfeeding.   Ann is proud to have parented three children into young adulthood, starting with nearly nine years of breastfeeding.

Brielle Stoyke, APRN, CNP, PMHNP-BC, CNM, IBCLC
Brielle Stoyke practices as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner at Nystrom and Associates. She spends half her time in their Mother Baby program seeing patients who are pregnant, postpartum or planning a pregnancy and struggle with mental illness. She sees patients for medication management with depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, bipolar, schizophrenia, drug induced psychosis, personality disorders and postpartum psychosis. The other half of her time is seeing general psychiatry including seeing men. Brielle practiced for more than 20 years as a Certified Nurse-Midwife and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She has worked in many settings: clinics, hospitals, a birth center and attended home births with an Amish population in rural Minnesota! Brielle was vice-president for her state affiliate of the American College of Nurse-Midwives for several years and participated in many committees for the national American College of Nurse-Midwives organization. She held a co-director position in a large CNM practice. She was awarded patient satisfaction honors, and taught midwifery as an adjunct professor. Brielle enjoyed working to license birth centers in Minnesota in 2010 and was a key member to update the advanced practice registered nurse bill in 2015. She was hired as an expert witness in her role as nurse-midwife for a law firm. Brielle is married with two teenage girls. Both of her girls were born premature and in the neonatal intensive care unit for more than a month. She proudly breastfeed both her daughters for longer than a year!