MummaPod Breastfeeding Course
This course is not just standard Breastfeeding Course
This is a FULL BREASTFEEDING EDUCATION.
Have you already done an anatenatal course but you feel that your breastfeeding knowledge is lacking?
Do you want to feel more confident in breastfeeding?
Do you want to also have at home experienced support built into the price of the course
do you want to remove the ‘if’ from ‘i want to breastfeed if i can’
If you answered yes to any of the above then this is the course for you. Come and learn from a qualified breastfeeding counsellor about how to best optimise your breastfeeding journey. This will include understanding the physiology of the breast, positioning and attachment, variations of normal and troubleshooting early breastfeeding problems.
MummaPod Breastfeeding course
SESSION 1: Breast anatomy
Understand the anatomy of the breast to help with breastfeeding
Breast storage
Suck swallow reflex
Let down reflex
Hormones
Supply and demand
SESSION 3: VARIATIONS OF NORMAL
Nipples (inverted, very large, very small)
Breast size and techniques
Multiples (if appropriate)
pre-term
Medication
SESSION 2: Positioning and attachment
Different positions and tools to aid
How to attach your baby to your breast
Hands on experience with weighted baby’s
hand expression (and colostrum harvesting)
SESSION 4: EARLY Challenges
Deciphering breastfeeding problems
Allowing baby to be fed without undermining your breastfeeding journey
In depth - attachment, including tongue tie, high palate, positioning support
In depth - nipples and trauma, nipple thrush, pain
In depth - supply issues
FREE ADD ONS
You can choose from one of the following add ons as part of the price of the course and you can also add additional support for a discounted price as you go.