All health workers who care for women and children during the postnatal period and beyond have a key role to play in establishing and sustaining breastfeeding. Many health workers cannot fulfill this role effectively because they have not been trained to do so. This updated training course is built upon the revised 2018 Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding, the latest version of the guidance for implementing the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) in facilities providing maternity and newborn services. The materials in this training course complement existing courses and can be used as part of the pre-service education of health workers.

Slides:

Session 1. BFHI: A ley component of quality maternal and newborn care
Session 2. Benefits of breastfeeding
Session 3. Counseling skills: listening and learning
Session 4. Counseling 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