Promoting Breastfeeding

Code: ENF14777O

2 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/52 hours

Scientific Area: Nursing

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Sustainable Development Goals

1. Erradicar a pobreza - Acabar com a pobreza em todas as suas formas, em todos os lugares

2. Erradicar a fome - Acabar com a fome, alcançar a segurança alimentar e melhoria da nutrição e promover a agricultura sustentável.

3. Saúde de qualidade - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

4. Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

10. Reduzir as desigualdades - Reduzir as desigualdades dentro dos países e entre eles.

Learning Goals

Objectives
- To know the WHO/UNICEF guidelines for successful breastfeeding
- To acquire knowledge and skills that promote and support breastfeeding

Competences
- Demonstrates knowledge on the importance of breastfeeding.
- Develops skills to enable them to act autonomously in breastfeeding situations.

- National/International/ Local Breastfeeding Situation
- Why exclusive breastfeeding is important in the first six months
- Physiology of breast milk production and flow
- Importance of skin-to-skin contact and initiation of breastfeeding in the first hour of life
- Colostrum/milk characteristics
- Breastfeeding technique
- Advantages of mother/newborn breastfeeding
- Maternal nutrition
- How to maintain breastfeeding
- Returning to work

Teaching Methods

The methodology will be active, implying strong (co)responsibility of the trainee in the production of learning in order to make them autonomous in their learning process. There will be discussion and analysis of current issues related to breastfeeding, linking them to existing scientific knowledge. In the theoretical component, the expositive method will be used, and dialogue will be stimulated.