Baby-friendly hospital initiative training course for maternity staff: director's guide
5 August 2020
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Overview
The Director’s guide contains all the information the course director needs to plan and prepare for a course, to decide which modules and sessions will be included in the training, and how to select trainers and participants, starting several months before the actual training. It contains the lists of the materials and equipment needed, examples of timetables, and copies of the forms that need to be photocopied before a course. It also describes the director’s role during the course itself.
Slides
- Session 1. BFHI: A key component of quality maternal and newborn care
- Session 2. Benefits of breastfeeding
- Session 3. Counselling skills: listening and learning
- Session 4. Counselling skills: building confidence and giving support
- Session 5. How breastfeeding works
- Session 6. Impact of birth practices
- Session 7. Postnatal practices to support breastfeeding
- Session 8. Classroom clinical practice: assessing a breastfeed
- Session 9. Clinical practice: positioning a baby at the breast
- Session 11. Breast and nipple conditions
- Session 12. Milk supply challenges
- Session 13. Challenges of feeding at the breast and alternative methods of feeding
- Session 14. Medical indications for supplementary feeding
- Session 16. Maternal health
- Session 17. Antenatal preparation for breastfeeding
- Session 19. Discharge care
- Session 20. The International Code
- Session 21. Facility practices: implementing the Ten Steps
Other available languages
WHO Team
Editors
World Health Organization & United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Number of pages
101
Reference numbers
ISBN: 978-92-4-000893-9