Understanding a baby’s behavior boosts parent’s confidence and baby’s development.
MISSION
Based on child development, lactation and pediatric literature, HUG Your Baby’s trainings and resources help parents (and the professionals who serve them) understand a baby’s body language in order to prevent and solve problems around eating, sleeping, crying, and parent-child interaction and to promote breastfeeding duration.
VISION
HUG Your Baby provides evidence-based online training, engaging “live” workshops, family-friendly educational materials, and competent HUG Teachers and Trainers around the world.
VALUES
HUG Your Baby believes that parents want to be effective mothers and fathers, that caring and confident parents raise capable and happy children, and that professionals serving young families want to provide effective, evidence-based education and support.
FOUNDER & HISTORY
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.