Hospital Trainings

LactaLearning’s customizable Baby-Friendly Hospital Staff Training is designed to fulfill Step 2, the Clinical Competencies, which are required for a birthing facility to receive and maintain the Baby-Friendly designation. This training is offered in two ways: as entirely self-study or a hybrid design with self-study and live and/or in-person components.

Our Baby-Friendly training increases your staff’s competence in:

1. Implementing the WHO Code in a health facility.
2. Explaining a facility’s infant feeding policies and monitoring systems.
3. Using listening and learning skills whenever engaging in a conversation with a mother.
4. Integrating skills for building confidence and giving support whenever engaging in a conversation with a mother.
5. Engaging in antenatal conversation about breastfeeding.
6. Implementing immediate and uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact.
7. Facilitating breastfeeding within the first hour, according to cues.
8. Discussing with a mother how breastfeeding works.
9. Assisting a mother in getting her baby to latch.
10. Helping a mother respond to feeding cues.
11. Helping a mother manage milk expression.
12. Helping a mother to breastfeed a low-birthweight or sick baby.
13. Helping a mother whose baby needs fluids other than breast milk.
14. Helping a mother who is not feeding their baby directly at the breast.
15. Helping a mother prevent or resolve difficulties with breastfeeding.
16. Ensuring seamless transition after discharge.

If you have questions or want to bring Baby-Friendly Training to your facility, please contact Barbara Robertson at barbara@lactalearning.com.