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Lactation & Newborn Care Basics

Prepare for the arrival of your newborn with expert guidance on infant care and breastfeeding techniques in this comprehensive class. Become confident in understanding newborn behavior, feeding, and common procedures, and learn how to avoid common lactation problems.

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  • 18 and older
  • $249
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  • 3 hours

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What you'll learn in this breastfeeding class:

Your Path to Confident Newborn Care and Feeding

Start breastfeeding / bodyfeeding successfully

  • Understanding pitfalls and barriers to successful lactation
  • Delaying newborn procedures when safe
  • The golden hour
  • Skin to skin contact and the breast crawl: How babies can latch on their own, if we let them.
  • Milk supply fundamentals

How to Successfully Latch

  • What does a good latch look like? 
  • Identify signs of a poor latch.
  • How to help your infant latch on and the best positioning to support a good latch
  • The 4 indicators that baby is getting enough milk
  • Why pain is an indication that something is wrong

Navigate Lactation and Feeding Challenges

  • Overcome the lack of education and support
  • How to fix painful breastfeeding/bodyfeeding
  • How to increase low milk supply
  • What to do when your baby isn't gaining weight
  • What is tongue-tie and how does it impact feeding
  • Feeding baby while having to return to work (because of lack of mandated federal leave)

Understand Newborn Procedures

  • Apgar score, eye ointment, vitamin K shot, weighing
  • Which procedures are necessary, why they’re done, and which can be delayed to support bonding/lactation
  • Understanding the American Academy of Pediatrics' stance on delaying newborn procedures
  • Keeping baby in your room vs. the sending baby to newborn nursery

How to Care for Your Newborn

  • Understanding normal infant behavior, communication, appearance, and sleep patterns
  • Bonding basics: soothing tips and basics to minimize crying and build secure attachment
  • Diapering baby and how to know if baby is getting enough
  • Umbilical cord care and bathing/sponge-bathing

Bottle Feeding, Pumping & Supplementation

  • When and how to introduce bottle feeding
  • Proper bottle feeding techniques
  • Best practices for breastfeeding/bodyfeeding parents who want to bottle feed
  • Understand when supplementation may be necessary

Refund Policy

The school highly recommend that students schedule any prenatal classes or workshops to end by the time they are 36 weeks pregnant. If they schedule class for after they begin their 36th week, they run the risk of having their baby and missing their class without a refund. In the event that they go into labor before 36 weeks, they may apply 90% of the class cost to another class (i.e.: CPR) or service (i.e.: postpartum doula care).

In the special circumstances of a mother-to-be being placed on bed rest or delivering before 36 weeks before the beginning of a class series, they may apply 90% of the class fee to another class or service at Birth Day Presence. If bed rest or delivery happens while they are in the middle of a series (and they would have completed their classes before they began their 36th week), they may apply the fees from the unused portion of the class toward another class or service at Birth Day Presence.

We are not responsible for providing make-ups or issuing any credit for classes missed as a result of scheduling conflicts, vacations, illness, emergencies, or other circumstances beyond our control.

Cancellation Policy

If students cancel their class:

  • 31 plus business days in advance, they will receive 90% refund.
  • 16-31 business days in advance, they will receive 50% refund.
  • 15 business days or less in advance, there are no refunds.

Rescheduling Policy

If students need to reschedule a class:

  • 16+ business days in advance, no fee, as long as there's availability.
  • 15 business days or less in advance, $35 rescheduling fee, as long as there's availability.

In the event that they need to miss a one-time class due to medical absence, they may transfer into a class with available space with a doctor's note.

Class Cancellation or Adjustment by Birth Day Presence

The school reserves the right to alter class times due to low enrollment. Every effort will be made to work with students' schedules to ensure that the student receives the instruction she signed up for. If the school cannot place students in another class or schedule a private session comparable to what they signed up for, a full refund will be given.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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Birth Day Presence, the premier provider of Childbirth Education and Doula Services, has served over six thousand expectant and new families in the NYC area since 2002. We hand-select the best childbirth education techniques and practices to prepare parents-to-be for the journey ahead.

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