One Hour Recorded Workshop for Birth, Lactation and Parenting Professionals
Approved for one free Contact Hour (nursing) or Cerp (lactation) credit
Understanding a baby’s behavior boosts parent confidence, enhances the parent-child relationship, and promotes breastfeeding duration.
This turn-key, evidence-based workshop instructs AND inspires today’s busy birth, lactation and parenting professionals.
Course Faculty and disclosure:
Jan Tedder, BSN, FNP, IBCLC, is award-winning nurse and educator. She who has worked with families in primary care setting, taught at nursing schools and family medicine residencies and has provided lactation teaching and care for decades. She is founder of HUG Your Baby, an educational program now used in 50 countries around the world. Click for CV.
Course Content:
Lactation literature confirms that mothers add formula or give up breastfeeding when they misinterpret a baby’s normal behavior
Child development literature describes the impact of misunderstanding baby’s behavior
Responsive Parenting (WHO) recommends helping parents 1) Notice baby’s behavior; 2) Interpret behavior correctly; 3) Take actions to promote parent-child relationship and breastfeeding duration
Legacy of Children (CDC) confirms positive short- and long-term impact of including child development concepts in parent education
Pediatric literature explians why and when predictable surges in baby’s development cause confusing disorganization in baby’s eating, sleeping or general behavior
Family-friendly language enhances understanding of important child development concepts :
a baby’s states changes: referred to here as a baby’s “Resting, Ready and Rebooting Zones”
a baby’s physiologic stress response: referred to here as “a baby sending our an SOS - Signs of Over-Stimulation” - with identified changes in baby’s body and behavior
HUG’s Roadmap to Breastfeeding Success identifies predictable, but often misunderstood, “bumps in the road” . Explore these examples:
Gaze aversion in a newbonr
Increased crying in a two-week-old
Active/Light vs Still/Deep sleep in a one-month-old
Distracted behavior of a four-month-old
Parent education resources that promote parent confidence, parent-child interaction and breastfeeding duration