The Breastfeeding Network offers an OCN-endorsed 12 week breastfeeding training course with healthcare professionals in mind. The ‘Supporting infant feeding in your practice’ course provides the most up-to-date breastfeeding information, ensuring that families can get the support they need with their breastfeeding choices.
This course consists of six two-hour zoom sessions, with a maximum of eight trainees, ensuring personal attention from your tutor. It also includes a chance to practice both your hand expressing demonstration, and helping a baby get latched on more effectively, with personal feedback from your tutor.
As well as the zoom sessions, you will have access to a training website, that you can explore at your leisure, including links, videos and interactive learning activities.
Do you currently work in a role supporting breastfeeding parents, and want to improve your skills and knowledge? This course includes:
- How breastfeeding works and why it matters
- Communicating effectively with parents around difficult topics, positive language
- The impact of society on parents’ infant feeding choices
- The impact of inequality on infant feeding
- The WHO Code
- Effective feeding, and how to support parents and babies to make feeding more effective.
- Expressing and storing milk
- Signposting and referrals
- Reliable and evidence-based information
- Oral development and its effect on infant feeding
- Stopping breastfeeding, introducing solids
The course includes time for trainees to ask additional questions they may have of the tutor.
For people who’ve already attended the two-day UNICEF Breastfeeding and Relationship Building course, this course can be both a great refresher, and an opportunity to explore the topics in greater depth. The zoom sessions are held every other week, giving you the time to consolidate and build on your learning between sessions. The topic of helping babies to latch on more effectively is returned to in multiple sessions, helping you increase your skills and confidence over time. The online quizzes and other interactive activities also help to cement your learning and help ensure you will remember these skills when the time comes to put them into practice.
Previous course attendees have been from a wide range of healthcare roles.
Course price: £350.00
We are taking bookings for our next courses. Please go here to purchase a place. If this course date does not work for you, please go here to register your interest, and we will contact you when the next course has been scheduled.