Healthy Babies UK believe in the value of mother-to-mother support and recognise that peer support plays a large part in the overall strategy of promotion and support for breastfeeding mothers. A Volunteer Breastfeeding Peer Supporter may have done their training through Healthy Babies UK by two different
routes.
1. Trained by a member of the team from Healthy Babies UK (Breastfeeding and Postnatal Practitioner).
2. Trained through a Children’s Centre or self-employed practitioner who has done the HBUK ‘train the trainer’ course.
The course is 6-8 weeks long a minimum, 16 hours classroom time. It is accredited by AIM through Healthy Babies UK (HBUK)
Course includes:
Ways of working effectively together
Health outcomes
Human milk for human babies
How breastfeeding works
Skin to skin
Positioning basics
Listening and communication skills
Positioning and attachment revisit and practice
Why women stop breastfeeding or never start
Common breastfeeding challenges
Life with a breastfeeding baby and the range of normal feeding patterns
When women and babies need professional support
Expressing and returning to work
Being a Peer Supporter
Record keeping
Role play and workbooks
All peer supporters trained using the HBUK course will be part of our network and additional tailored support if required.
‘I enjoyed the course as a whole; it was well presented, well put together and fantastically informative.’
Tiverton, Devon, 2016
‘I enjoyed having something interesting and educational to look forward to. Course content excellent and should be more available to everyone’
Exmouth, Devon, 2011
‘Nice easy to learn way of getting all the information we needed and handouts to stop us forgetting it later! Great course thoroughly enjoyed it’
Exmouth, Devon, 2011
