Approved for one free Cerp (lactation) or Contact Hour (nursing) credit
One-Hour Recorded Workshop (approved for credit) for Birth, Lactation and Parenting Professionals
Understanding a baby’s behavior boosts parent confidence, enhances the parent-child relationship, and promotes breastfeeding duration.
Workshop instructs AND inspires today’s busy birth, lactation and parenting professionals.
Click below to watch one-minute video about this workshop
Course Faculty and disclosure:
Jan Tedder, BSN, IBCLC, FNP, is the founder and president of HUG Your Baby. After decades of working with expectant and new parents as a nurse practitioner and lactation consultant, she launched HUG Your Baby in 2007. Since then HUG’s “live” workshops, online trainings, and parent resources have been presented at conferences, nursing schools and breastfeeding coalitions across the USA and made available in more than fifty countries around the world. Over twenty articles published in peer-reviewed journal confirm that HUG’s training and resources 1) increase birth, lactation and parenting professionals’ ability and confidence to teach parents about how a child’s behavior impacts early parenting and breastfeeding; and 2) increase parents’ confidence and understanding of their baby and decrease postpartum depression. Jan has been honored as the American Nurses Association’s Nurse Innovator of the Year, the North Carolina Maternal-Child Nurse of the Year, and one of the Great 100 Nurses of North Carolina. See Jan’s CV HERE.
Disclosure: Jan Tedder BSN, FNP, IBCLC is founder and president of HUG Your Baby, an international organization whose sole purpose is to provide evidence-based education for birth, lactation and parenting professionals and the parents they serve. These courses are designed for educational purposes only and is relevant to the continued learning needs of birth, lactation and parenting professionals.
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 :
Consider a baby’s states changes: referred to here as a baby’s “Resting, Ready and Rebooting Zones”.
Consider 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.