Breastfeeding Basics: The Breastfeeding Couple

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants should be able to give basic instructions about breastfeeding to a mother being discharged.

2. Participants should be able to describe routine breast care for a breastfeeding woman.

Contents of This Module

1. Pre-module Evaluation

2. Introduction
   • New Mothers and New Babies

3. Breastfeeding Initiation
   • Positioning of Infants
   • Case Study 14
   • Sleepy Babies
   • Feeding Frequency
   • Care Notes
   • Pacifiers and Breastfeeding

4. Maternal Breast Care
   • Engorgement
   • Case Study 15
   • Case Study 16
   • Sore, Cracked Nipples
   • Blocked Milk Duct
   • Mastitis
   • Case Study 17

5. The New Family

6. Growth Spurts (case study 18)

7. Maternal Diet
   • Case Study 19
   • Case Study 20

8. Returning to Work

9. Weaning

10. Post-module Evaluation

11. References