INFANT PARENT HEALTH ALLIANCE

First 24 hours - baby, mum & partner
Baby - standard checks, skin-to-skin, baby’s umbilical cord, delayed clamping, breast crawl, weight, stools, and more. 
Mum - common physical occurrences and natural solutions inclusive of caesarean recovery, episiotomy, lochia, initial milk supply and engorgement management, effects of medication on you and baby.
Partner - emotional changes and how best to support yourself, your partner and baby.

Foundational Care - baby, mum, partner
Baby - a practical session on nappy changing, bathing and more. We also share information on ideal weight gains, cradle cap, rashes, temperature, stools and oral ties.
Mum - understand baby blues, postpartum depression, postnatal psychosis and sleep deprivation.
Partner - further information on postpartum depression for men and preparation for moving through possible challenges.

Bio-logical Daily Patterns
Learn how to nurture digestive and emotional homeostasis with balanced feeding, burping and sleep patterns. You will also learn about the unbalanced patterns that cause colic, reflux, the witching hour, lactose and dairy overload and intolerances so you can prevent or remedy these for your child, whilst truly feeling confident in your decision making.

Bio-logical Breastfeeding 
Everything you need to know to aid a healthy, breastfeeding relationship inclusive of breast anatomy and function, milk composition and production, hand expressing, stimulating supply, managing oversupply, baby’s suck swallow momentum, positions, latching, and what is a healthy breastfeeding diet that limits digestive upset for your child. Along with combating common issues naturally.

Bio-logical Bottlefeeding
Choose the right bottle, learn how to make up a bottle, how to feed a bottle in accordance with reflexes, expressing for bottle feeds and what you need to know about formula ingredients (no brands provided).

Bio-logical Burping
Discover the cycle of trapped air in the digestive tract, optimum burping for each age, salivary enzymes and how to best use pacifiers. We also share our ten-step method of burping that will have you providing
Bio-logical Calming techniques, appropriate positions and recognising your baby’s Six-Wind-Cues.

Bio-logical Cues and Calming
Understand your infant’s communication, whether verbal or physical, and learn how to respond confidently with calming sound bonding, touch, and positions.

Bio-logical Sleep 
Establish balanced sleep habits that fulfill your infant’s natural requirements at different ages whilst learning about your child’s body clock, the true tired cues, how to sleep baby for longer sleep cycles, settling techniques and ideal equipment.

Prepare to start
Prepare well by defining expectations and gaining a basic list of equipment and general guides on storing food.

Bio-logical Solids Weaning
Learn the core philosophy of this method of weaning, it’s main features and why it is a healthy choice as you explore your infant’s digestive and oral development, so you fully understand the reasoning behind this life-logical method and when it is best to start.

Intolerance, allergies and obesity 
Learn the differences between intolerances and allergies, the common allergenic foods, when and how to introduce them, symptoms, prevention, and when to seek medical advice. We also delve into obesity, distilling the belief that a chunky infant is a healthy infant.

Nutritional Foundations 
Learn about the importance of milk, iron, zinc, fat, carbohydrates, gassy foods, sugar, salt and sodium, protein and what you need to know about commercial baby foods.

Fussy Feeders 
Gain understanding on preventable picky eating and those that may require further investigations by the appropriate professional. You’ll also learn tools that can help reduce fussy feeding.

Bio-logical Daily Patterns 
Respecting the natural rhythm of digestion is important when offering foods and milk throughout the day, so here we share some patterns that allow healthy breaking down and absorption of nutrients, fluid intake and optimum developmental sleep.

Monthly Food Guide
Learn the specific foods, textures and amounts to offer at each month, inclusive of milk, that aligns with your infant’s digestive and oral development, so aiding stools.

Food Preparation
Uncomplicated ways to cook foods, create the different textures for each age and store them for easy, balanced daily menus.

Additional Tips
Transitioning to self-feeding, when to introduce cups and how to help your infant adjust to these. We also provide you ways to help constipation, whilst understanding what stools are normal. This is also the last class, so we wrap things up so you can relax into the fun stage of solid food.