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
EVERYDAY 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
