With a current strong cultural emphasis on attachment parenting, hospital staff members need tools to foster this approach in their labor and delivery units. To meet this need, HASC and FlexEd present Birth & Beyond, a seminar that provides the evidence, knowledge and skills participants need to confidently support, establish and protect early mother-infant attachment and breastfeeding in the hospital setting.

Adapted from the Perinatal Services Network at Loma Linda University Medical Center, this course will highlight the personal tools necessary to enhance early parent-infant attachment, as well as listening to and understanding the language of the newborn. Learn how to create an environment that supports and enhances the newborn’s natural capabilities and practice the skills necessary to organize care to maximize mother and infant skin-to-skin contact and bonding. Activities during the seminar will promote learning by doing.

Encourage your hospital’s RNs, lactation consultants and lactation educators to attend.

The seminar is scheduled as two all-day seminars, April 18 and May 2, at Verdugo Hills Hospital. Program cost for HASC members is $200.