Newborn Care Essentials

Next Class: Saturday March 16th, 2019 (12:00pm - 3:00pm) located at Bosom Babies (11010 101 Street Nw)

Your baby won’t arrive with an instruction manual so we are here to help support and prepare families for welcoming their newborn. This course will provide families with essential information and skills to become more comfortable and confident in how to care for a new baby.

In this 3 hour class, taught by a Postpartum & Infant Care doula, you will explore the first hours, days and weeks after baby is born. Everything from what could their skin & body look like, how to recognize hunger cues, sooth a crying baby and what does a safe sleep space look like.

Topics Include:

• Newborn Appearance, Newborn Procedures, Newborn Behaviour

• Feeding Overview (breast & bottle)

• Umbilical Cord Care

• Bathing & Diapering

• Comfort / Soothing

• Swaddling & Pacifiers

• Safe Sleep Guidelines

• Introduction to Car Seat Safety

Thanks to our incredible partners at Bosom Babies all families who attend will also receive a coupon for $10 off a $40 or more purchase to use the day they attend the workshop.

Cost for the class is $90 payable by EMT (email money transfer). Registration includes attendance for two people, any pregnant person and their partner or other support person. We recommend taking this course when the pregnant person is anywhere between ~30-36 weeks pregnant. Class registration is limited to 6 pairs (12 people).

For additional questions please don’t hesitate to contact us!

If you are like the millions of mothers who’ve walked this path before, parenting will remind you – again and again – that you are utterly and completely human. Your offspring has the power to induce in you the greatest expression of love and the deepest well of frustration.”

“You may be wondering how it is possible to be filled with great, nearly overwhelming surges of adoration one moment and pushed to tears of exasperation the next? Welcome to Motherhood!”

 ~ The First 40 Days (Heng Ou)