Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative training course for maternity staff: trainer's guide
5 August 2020
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Overview
The Trainer's guide contains what the trainer needs in order to lead participants through the various sessions of the course. The guide contains:
- the information required to conduct either the complete course or customized sessions;
- detailed instructions on how to conduct each session;
- different exercises for participants with answers;
- the summary sheets, forms and job aids for the specific clinical sessions;
- checklists and stories for the practical sessions of 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
422
Reference numbers
ISBN: 978-92-4-000889-2