We are available to run courses for health care professionals* who work with expectant parents, foster and adoptive parents, and families and carers with babies and young children. If you or your practice have specific needs or requests about training, please get in touch with us at trageschuleireland@gmail.com.
One-Day Course:
Baby Carrying Workshop for Professionals who work with Families
Next course: Professionals, Sep 2024: https://forms.gle/qzHjiyvo38Nie7qA9
This course is a one-day training for professionals who work with families and caregivers with new babies. It is also designed for healthcare professionals, clinicians, and researchers interested in the impact of sling-use as a practical intervention during the postnatal period. While this training is popular with professionals who wish to teach parents and caregivers with healthy, full-term babies a carrying technique in a one-to-one capacity, it is also designed for anyone who in their professional capacity recommends babywearing to new or expectant parents, and for HCPS, clinicians and researchers who wish to promote or explore its potential as part of a care plan for parents or babies.
The training involves hands-on practice using a stretchy wrap, giving insight into what it is like for a parent or caregiver to learn how to use a stretchy wrap and an understanding of what elements are essential in teaching this practical skill. This hands-on practice will give you an introduction to aspects of infant physiology that being carried responds to and supports. Key parts of the training are learning how to assess infant and parental safety with full-term healthy babies and learning about research relating to the impact of babywearing on the biopsychosocial development of babies and the postnatal mental health for parents.
The tying technique covered on this day is a standard carry with a stretchy wrap–this is one of the most popular ways of carrying a new baby. Given the versatility of stretchy wraps for adults with different builds, the relative lower cost of purchase, and the ease of use with new babies, stretchy wraps are also the most likely sling to be included in “baby bundles/box” schemes, as seen in the national “Baby Bundle” scheme piloted in Ireland earlier this year.
This training will allow you to bring babywearing into your practice in various ways: you will have received training to teach parents and caregivers of healthy, full-term infants how to use a stretchy wrap in a one-to-one setting; the training will allow you, in your professional capacity, to give demonstrations, provide information about safety and positioning, and to offer general guidance on how to incorporate babywearing into the daily care of a healthy, full-term baby; where relevant to your professional role, it will also be a foundation in providing sound and appropriately tailored information for parents in specific circumstances.
You do not need to have any prior experience carrying a baby in a sling to attend this course. You do need to have established, or to be training for, a professional practice working with or researching families and caregivers with new babies.
The workshop covers:
- Overview of the ‘hows’ and ‘whys’ of babywearing
- Physiological and psychosocial aspects of carrying
- Carrying safely
- How to achieve physiological positioning in a sling
- Current research findings about the transition to parenthood, infancy and the benefits of carrying your baby
- How to teach one carry in a stretchy wrap: PWCC (pocket wrap cross carry)
- An overview of different types and brands of stretchy wrap
The workshop fee includes:
- Handouts with material covered in this course
- A manual that explores the benefits of babywearing, including discussions of directly measured benefits and inferred benefits
- Written step-by-step instructions for use with parents
- A certificate of attendance
Cost: €170 (early bird options may be available). Limited to 9 course participants
If you are interested in doing this workshop, please complete this form.
* This course is suitable for antenatal educators, doulas, midwives, GPs, psychologists, lactation consultants, nurses, PHNs, physiotherapists, osteopaths, chiropractors, occupational therapists, complimentary healthcare practitioners, infant massage therapists, antenatal yoga teachers, baby yoga teachers, postnatal exercise instructors and other professionals who wish to support parents to use slings and baby carriers.
If you have any questions please get in touch with us at:
trageschuleireland@gmail.com
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