Breastfeeding course for Doulor, Online

Online 19/1 at 18-21

 

Together we explore your own performances and experiences of breastfeeding, how it affects your perspective, and how you as a doula provide evidence -based breastfeeding support to new parents.

 

• Breastfeeding from a cultural and a biological perspective.

• The Golden Hour - the very first breastfeeding and Doulan role.

• If the mother and the child are separated.

• Breastfeeding after different kinds of births.

• How the birth experience affects breastfeeding.

• How your mother's/ grandmother's/ grandmother's breastfeeding experience affects your own.

• confidence in their body and the relationship with breastfeeding.

• The basics of working breastfeeding.

• Official guidelines on breastfeeding.

• Giving advice and support on breastfeeding- do 'and dont's.

• Common non-evidence-based advice that parents receive from healthcare/ family/ friends.

• Prepare parents for the first time of breastfeeding, common thoughts and anxiety.

• Common breastfeeding problems and how you as a doula can help.

• Equality and partner's role.

• Support when someone doesn't want to breastfeed.

• Mental illness and breastfeeding.

• Food and drink during the breastfeeding period.

• Your own breastfeeding experience and your ideas about breastfeeding.

• Where do you refer further and when is more help needed?