Breastfeeding counselling is a conversation where someone with appropriate training listens and responds to a woman’s thoughts and feelings related to breastfeeding while respecting her personal situation and wishes.
Breastfeeding counselling should provide education, reassurance, skilled practical help and problem solving, and anticipatory guidance in the antenatal, birth and postpartum periods through to the first two years of an infant’s life.
This presentation teaches the necessary listening skills and other communication skills to councel mothers regarding breastfeeding and also to build confidence and give the necessary support
Sessions in this Course
Session 1:
- Lesson 1: Orientation to MBFI and 10 steps
- Lesson 2: Listening and Learning Skills
- Lesson 3: Use skills for building confidence and giving support
- Lesson 4: Antenatal Conversation about breastfeeding
Session 2:
- Lesson 1: Anatomy and physiology of breastfeeding
- Lesson 2: First feeding immediately after birth
- Lesson 3: Frequency of feeding
- Lesson 4: Exclusive Breastfeeding
Session 3:
- Lesson 1: Baby’s feeding cues and positions
- Lesson 2: Attachment to the breast
- Lesson 3: Observing breastfeeding
Session 4:
- Lesson 1: Breastfeeding the preterm baby
- Lesson 2 : Expressing breastmilk
- Lesson 3: Feeding bottles, teats & pacifiers
- Lesson 4: Breastfeeding problems: the baby
Session 5:
- Lesson 1: “Not enough milk”
- Lesson 2: Nipple conditions
- Lesson 3: Engorged breasts
- Lesson 4: Breastfeeding and the HIV+ mother
- Lesson 5: Other 10 steps
Course Content
Final Quiz: MBFI Session 5
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