Description
Baby bath with a difference with Francoise Freedman. 30th & 31st January 2021 9.30am – 1pm UK time. The course is available globally via Zoom Livestream (an internet connection with Zoom capability is required to take this course). Please contact admin@birthlight.com for group discount for 3 or more colleagues or team members and for bursaries for those working in the charity or voluntary sectors. Booking is limted. All members please login and your membership discount will be applied automatically.
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Who |
This course is for those who would like training in how to work with babies in a home bath environment. You may gain a Birthlight Aquatic Nurture teaching qualification by completing coursework. Tutor for this course is Francoise Freedman. See below for an extended course description. |
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What |
Birthlight Aquatic Baby Nurture training course |
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Where |
UK / Global (via Zoom) |
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When |
30th & 31st January 2021 9.30am – 1pm UK time. |
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Why |
To receive a Birthlight Aquatic Nurture teaching qualification in Aquatic Baby Nurture from Birthlight or simply to further your own knowledge of Aquatic Baby Nurture. |
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How |
Livestream The course will be taught live by Francoise Freedman in a Livestream course format via Zoom Note: Zoom with an internet connection is a requirement (you will be emailed a Zoom invite link which will enable you to access the Zoom part of the course). Our technical support person will be available to assist you if necessary (please contact us if you require this). Booking is limited so book now. |
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Qualification |
CPD (Attendance Certificate) or Stand-alone Short Course with coursework (Teaching Certificate). Total hours including home study: 18 hours. |
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Contact Hours |
6 hrs |
Extended Course Description
There is so much more to newborns’ first baths than hygiene: baths ease babies’ transition from their intra-uterine life to the outside world. The bath is calming, stimulating and multisensory all at once. But most often, the ways in which we handle newborns shapes the bath experience. With responsive handling, daily baths can become shared moments of pleasure that enhance the early weeks and months for parents and babies together.
The Birthlight Aquatic Nurture short course (Livestream) responds to the need of restoring the enjoyable dimension of newborns’ baths for new families at home. Baby bathing, demonstrated by professionals, used to be -and sometimes still is-, part of hospital maternity care. Our aim is to empower parents to bathe their newborns confidently at home in their mutual space, rhythm, timing and intuition. In the process, parents come to appreciate what Marshall Klaus called ‘the amazing talents of the newborn’. Based on
teaching the Birthlight simple practices over many years, we know that with minimal
guidance, new mums and dads can lose their initial fears and gain confidence to engage
with their newborns’ bath experience. Bonding, this magical connection, is facilitated. The
cascade of benefits to parents and babies from happy baths in the early postnatal period
cannot be underestimated, particularly at this time of restricted support due to the
pandemic.
This course is focused on practice, taught with abundant visual aids and backed with clearly
presented theoretical knowledge (resources are on offer for those who want more).
Participants will be equipped with observation and communication skills to facilitate parents
and babies experience. We teach without taking over, rather by using a doll to show parents
the baby holds and movements without ‘doing it for them’.
Three home environments for newborns’ baths from birth to 4 months are presented:
portable baby baths, home bathtubs for shared baths, inflatable tubs (birthing pools).
Aquatic Nurture is an effective foundation for the transition from home bath to swimming
with babies in warm pools.
With attention to differences in each environment the course includes the following
elements in four sessions over two days (9.30-am 1 pm each day).
- Birthlight ‘Relaxed Holds’ for effective support and smooth immersion of newborns
in baby baths, as well as for parents’ comfort - Keys to reading cues of babies’ comfort or discomfort and responding to these cues
- Simple techniques to ease the bath experience when needed (swaddled baths, water
pouring) - Teaching points for effective demonstration of holds and instructions with dolls for
parents to follow with their babies - Pre and post bath activities with newborns that are part of the bath experience
Breakout rooms, quizzes and Q&A sessions make this course interactive online.
This course has coursework for participants who want the Birthlight Aquatic Nurture
teaching qualification rather than just a certificate of attendance. Coursework consists of three documented case studies of baby baths (with short videos) that complete training with mentoring and feedback for effectively guiding new families in the art of Aquatic Baby Nurture.
