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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Certificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
yesCU BoulderCoursera

The Syllabus

Videos
  • Introduction: Guidance to Keep Newborn Babies Safe & Healthy
  • What is Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID)?
  • Infant safe Sleep Environments
  • Infant safe Sleep FAQs
  • Typical Infant Sleep in the First Month of Life
  • How to Help Improve Infant Sleep
Readings
  • About Us: Your Instructors
  • Center for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Racial and ethnic trends in sudden unexpected infant deaths
  • Resource: Trends in Sudden Unexpected Infant Death by Cause
  • Sudden Unexpected Infant Death by Race/Ethnicity, 2011-2014
  • CDC Reading and Resources link
  • AAP: SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Infant Death
  • NIH: Safe Sleep for Your Baby
  • Fussy Baby Network
  • The Happiest Baby on the Block
Practice Exercise
  • Infant Safe Sleep

Videos
  • Why Do We Use Car Seats?
  • Best Practices for Transporting Children Safely
  • Rear-Facing-Only Seats and Convertible Seats
  • 5 Steps for Rear-facing Car seat Safety
  • Skills Video: Car Seat Safety
  • It's Complicated
Readings
  • Child Passenger Safety
  • NIH: Unsafe from the Start: Serious Misuse of Car Safety Seats at Newborn Discharge
  • AJPM: Reviews of evidence regarding interventions to increase use of child safety seats
  • AAP: Safe Transportation of Newborns at Hospital Discharge
  • AAP: Safe Transportation of Preterm and Low Birth Weight Infants at Hospital Discharge
  • A Comparison of Respiratory Patterns in Healthy Term Infants Placed in Car Safety Seats and Beds
Practice Exercise
  • Car Seat Safety

Videos
  • What Is "Temperament"
  • Goodness of Fit
  • Coregulation
  • Calming a Crying baby
  • The Crying Curve and Fussiness
Readings
  • AAP: Helping Parents Deal With Infants' Temperamental Differences
  • Healthy Children: Handling Colic
  • AAP: Colic Reading and linked Resources
  • AAP: Developmental Outcome as a Function of the Goodness of Fit
  • Coregulation
  • AAP: Crying Curve
Practice Exercise
  • Temperament and Colic

Videos
  • Breastfeeding Benefits
  • Key Breastfeeding Assessment Questions
  • Breastfeeding in Early Weeks
  • Breastfeeding Problems
  • Return to Work/School and Milk Storage
  • Advocacy for Breastfeeding
  • Frequently Asked Questions About Breastfeeding
Readings
  • Global Health Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding
  • AHRQ Evidence-based Review
  • LactMed Resource
  • Infant Risk Center: Readings and Resources
  • AAP Policy Statement
  • AAP Pediatrics in Review: Dr Bunik
Practice Exercise
  • Breastfeeding

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