Your Path to Confident Newborn Care and Feeding
Start breastfeeding / bodyfeeding successfully
- Understanding pitfalls and barriers to successful lactation
- Delaying newborn procedures when safe
- The golden hour
- Skin to skin contact and the breast crawl: How babies can latch on their own, if we let them.
- Milk supply fundamentals
How to Successfully Latch
- What does a good latch look like?
- Identify signs of a poor latch.
- How to help your infant latch on and the best positioning to support a good latch
- The 4 indicators that baby is getting enough milk
- Why pain is an indication that something is wrong
Navigate Lactation and Feeding Challenges
- Overcome the lack of education and support
- How to fix painful breastfeeding/bodyfeeding
- How to increase low milk supply
- What to do when your baby isn't gaining weight
- What is tongue-tie and how does it impact feeding
- Feeding baby while having to return to work (because of lack of mandated federal leave)
Understand Newborn Procedures
- Apgar score, eye ointment, vitamin K shot, weighing
- Which procedures are necessary, why they’re done, and which can be delayed to support bonding/lactation
- Understanding the American Academy of Pediatrics' stance on delaying newborn procedures
- Keeping baby in your room vs. the sending baby to newborn nursery
How to Care for Your Newborn
- Understanding normal infant behavior, communication, appearance, and sleep patterns
- Bonding basics: soothing tips and basics to minimize crying and build secure attachment
- Diapering baby and how to know if baby is getting enough
- Umbilical cord care and bathing/sponge-bathing
Bottle Feeding, Pumping & Supplementation
- When and how to introduce bottle feeding
- Proper bottle feeding techniques
- Best practices for breastfeeding/bodyfeeding parents who want to bottle feed
- Understand when supplementation may be necessary
