Guidance to Keep Newborn Babies Safe and Healthy
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Approx. 16 hours to complete
Course Summary
Learn how to keep your newborn baby safe and healthy with this comprehensive course. Explore various tips and techniques to ensure your baby's well-being and development.Key Learning Points
- Understand the common health issues that newborns may face and how to deal with them effectively
- Explore different feeding options and learn how to choose the right one for your baby
- Discover the importance of sleep and how to establish healthy sleep patterns for your baby
Job Positions & Salaries of people who have taken this course might have
- Pediatrician
- USA: $183,240
- India: ₹1,169,381
- Spain: €69,000
- Childcare Provider
- USA: $24,230
- India: ₹214,794
- Spain: €16,000
- Parent Educator
- USA: $44,380
- India: ₹2,883,744
- Spain: €26,000
Related Topics for further study
Learning Outcomes
- Understand how to identify and manage common health issues in newborns
- Choose the right feeding option based on your baby's needs
- Establish healthy sleep patterns for your baby
Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course
- No prior knowledge or experience required
- Access to a computer or mobile device with an internet connection
Course Difficulty Level
BeginnerCourse Format
- Self-paced
- Online
Similar Courses
- Newborn Care: Tips and Techniques
- Baby Development: From Newborn to Toddler
Related Education Paths
Notable People in This Field
- Dr. Harvey Karp
- Jill Spivack
Related Books
Description
In your previous 2 courses, you learned some medical interventions and skills to keep newborns healthy in the days and weeks after they have been born.  In this course, you will learn some key things that parents will need to do to keep their babies safe and healthy. The Guidance to Keep Newborn Babies Safe and Healthy Course will teach you best practices for how your baby will spend most of their day: eating, sleeping, and sometimes crying. Parents need to understand how to optimize nutrition, how to create a safe and happy sleep environment, how to safely transport their baby in their car, and how to respond to their baby’s crying.
Outline
- Safe Newborn Sleep
- Introduction: Guidance to Keep Newborn Babies Safe & Healthy
- What is Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID)?
- Infant safe Sleep Environments
- Infant safe Sleep FAQs
- Typical Infant Sleep in the First Month of Life
- How to Help Improve Infant Sleep
- About Us: Your Instructors
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- Racial and ethnic trends in sudden unexpected infant deaths
- Resource: Trends in Sudden Unexpected Infant Death by Cause
- Sudden Unexpected Infant Death by Race/Ethnicity, 2011-2014
- CDC Reading and Resources link
- AAP: SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Infant Death
- NIH: Safe Sleep for Your Baby
- Fussy Baby Network
- The Happiest Baby on the Block
- Infant Safe Sleep
- CAR SEAT SAFETY
- Why Do We Use Car Seats?
- Best Practices for Transporting Children Safely
- Rear-Facing-Only Seats and Convertible Seats
- 5 Steps for Rear-facing Car seat Safety
- Skills Video: Car Seat Safety
- It's Complicated
- Child Passenger Safety
- NIH: Unsafe from the Start: Serious Misuse of Car Safety Seats at Newborn Discharge
- AJPM: Reviews of evidence regarding interventions to increase use of child safety seats
- AAP: Safe Transportation of Newborns at Hospital Discharge
- AAP: Safe Transportation of Preterm and Low Birth Weight Infants at Hospital Discharge
- A Comparison of Respiratory Patterns in Healthy Term Infants Placed in Car Safety Seats and Beds
- Car Seat Safety
- TEMPERAMENT AND COLIC
- What Is "Temperament"
- Goodness of Fit
- Coregulation
- Calming a Crying baby
- The Crying Curve and Fussiness
- AAP: Helping Parents Deal With Infants' Temperamental Differences
- Healthy Children: Handling Colic
- AAP: Colic Reading and linked Resources
- AAP: Developmental Outcome as a Function of the Goodness of Fit
- Coregulation
- AAP: Crying Curve
- Temperament and Colic
- BREASTFEEDING AND FORMULA FEEDING
- Breastfeeding Benefits
- Key Breastfeeding Assessment Questions
- Breastfeeding in Early Weeks
- Breastfeeding Problems
- Return to Work/School and Milk Storage
- Advocacy for Breastfeeding
- Frequently Asked Questions About Breastfeeding
- Global Health Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding
- AHRQ Evidence-based Review
- LactMed Resource
- Infant Risk Center: Readings and Resources
- AAP Policy Statement
- AAP Pediatrics in Review: Dr Bunik
- Breastfeeding
Summary of User Reviews
Key Aspect Users Liked About This Course
practicality and real-world advicePros from User Reviews
- Course provides practical advice and tips for keeping newborn babies safe and healthy
- Content is easy to understand and follow
- Instructors are knowledgeable and experienced
- Course is self-paced, allowing for flexibility in learning
- Course is free to audit
Cons from User Reviews
- Course lacks interactive elements, such as quizzes and assignments
- Some users have noted that the course can be repetitive at times
- Content may not be detailed enough for those with prior knowledge or experience in childcare
- Some users have noted technical difficulties with the Coursera platform
- Course may not cover all aspects of newborn care, such as breastfeeding and postpartum care
Christine Gold
4.9 Raiting
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