Baby-friendly hospital initiative training course for maternity staff: participant's manual
5 August 2020
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Overview
The Participant's manual contains summarized information for the sessions along with the session slides. It also includes copies of worksheets, checklists, and job aids for the clinical sessions and exercises to practise during the course (without the answers). This manual can be used for reference after the course.
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
245
Reference numbers
ISBN: 978-92-4-000895-3