Parenting

Overview:

The Parenting courses are diverse and cover in great detail issues such as:

• Babies first year
• Mother support
• Getting to know your new baby
• Everyday babycare
• Feeding
• Stimulation
• Your baby’s safety

Course content includes but is not limited to the following type of content:

Getting To Know Your New Baby:

• Early Bonding
• Communication
• Your baby’s body language
• Getting into a routine
• Newborns routine
• Three-month old routine
• Six month-old routine
• First outings with your newborn

Everday Babycare:

• Lifting, holding, carrying
• Every day care
• Common concerns
• Comforting your crying baby
• Swaddling your newborn
• Baby care at Seasonal changes
• Dressing your newborn
• Bathing your newborn
• Topping and Tailing
• Introducing baby big bath
• Nappies and nappy changing

Feeding:

• Breastfeeding
• Bottlefeeding
  • Milk Alternatives
  • Equipment for bottlefeeding
  • Sterilization
  • Preparing Feeds
  • Giving Bottle Feeds
  • Feeding problems
  • Night Feeds

• Weaning
  • Weaning Guidelines
  • Which foods to give
  • From breast to bottle
  • Food Safety Precautions

• Introduction of solids and nutrition
  • Criteria for starting solids
  • What is a balanced diet?
  • Six steps to introducing solids
  • Weaning problems
  • Finger Foods
  • Freezing Food
  • Introduction of beakers

Stimulation:

• Recognising potential in babies
• Massage
• Seeing and Looking
• Hearing and Talking
• Touching and Feeling
• Making Toys out of Scrap
• Play-Time recipes
• Social & emotional development

Your Baby's Safety:

• Factors that influence play
• Stages of play
• Ways of play
• Fantasy play
• Block Play
• Books and stories
• Creative activities & Basic daily activities
• The role of the mother/caregiver
• Home made recipes
• Guidelines how to make toys  for your toddler and games  to play with home made toys