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Overview
What you will learn
Based on up-to-date scientific research, you will leave feeling confident in responding to and supporting your infant and their needs.
This Infant Sleep and Development Education for Parents course offered by Douglas College is not about sleep training or changing infant behaviours. It is about understanding your infant's behaviour, and responding and adapting to their needs while maintaining the health and wellness of the whole family.
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- How and why infant sleep is different than adults
- Infant feeding needs, sleep needs and safe sleep guidelines
- Infant brain development and how to support it
- Individual behaviours and temperaments and why it matters
- How responsive caregiving nourishes your child’s development
- How to notice and respond to your baby’s cues
- What affects sleep?
- Breastfeeding and Chestfeeding and sleep
- How to optimize sleep for both infants and parents
- Challenges (illness, adjusting to parenting, coming home from NICU and perinatal mood disorders and more)
- Biological parenting instincts
- How and why different stage, phase and development leaps affect infant behaviour and their sleep
- Resources and support
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 1 months
Start dates & application deadlines
You can apply for and start this programme anytime.
Language
English
Delivered
Online
- Self-paced
Disciplines
Adult Education View 12 other Short Courses in Adult Education in CanadaAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- No requirements needed.
Tuition Fee
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International
49 CAD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 49 CAD for the full programme during 1 months. -
National
49 CAD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 49 CAD for the full programme during 1 months.
Funding
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