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  • Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Breastfeeding Web Course

    Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Breastfeeding Web Course

    Ce cours de base interactif sur l’allaitement s’adresse aux employés et aux bénévoles des organismes communautaires et des hôpitaux qui travaillent auprès des femmes enceintes et des nouvelles mères. Après avoir suivi ce cours, vous pourrez :

    • Protéger, promouvoir et soutenir l’allaitement.
    • Avoir une influence positive sur les femmes enceintes qui doivent décider de quelle façon elles veulent nourrir leur bébé.
    • Être une source de soutien fiable durant les premières semaines de l’allaitement.

    Il faut environ une heure à une heure et demie pour completer le cours.

     

    Le but du cours est d’aider les fournisseurs de soins de santé et de services sociaux, les bénévoles et les personnes qui travaillent avec les femmes enceintes ou les nouvelles familles à protéger, à promouvoir et à soutenir l’allaitement.

    À la fin du cours, vous pourrez :

    • Donner au moins cinq bonnes raisons d’allaiter.
    • Expliquer pourquoi les femmes ont besoin de soutien pendant la grossesse et la période postnatale.
    • Nommer au moins trois obstacles à l’allaitement et expliquer comment les surmonter.
    • Appliquer le plan en trois étapes pour aider les femmes à prendre des décisions éclairées dans des situations réelles.
    • Adopter des pratiques visant à promouvoir, protéger et soutenir l’allaitement.
    • Nommer au moins trois sources de soutien locales ou provinciales pour les mères.

    Également disponible en français.

  • Supporting Mothers and Babies: Understanding Breastfeeding and the Baby-Friendly Initiative

    Supporting Mothers and Babies: Understanding Breastfeeding and the Baby-Friendly Initiative

    This interactive breastfeeding course is an entry-level course designed for staff and volunteers of community agencies and hospitals who work with prenatal women or new families. Completing this course will help you to:

    • Protect, promote and support breastfeeding.
    • Have a positive influence on pregnant women who are making their infant feeding decision.
    • Be a trusted support during the early weeks of breastfeeding.

    This course will take 1 to 1 ½ hours to complete.

    The goal of this course is to enable health and social service providers, volunteers and individuals who work with pregnant women or new families to protect, promote and support breastfeeding.

    By the end of this course you will be able to:

    • List at least 5 reasons why breastfeeding is recommended.
    • Describe why mothers need support during pregnancy and the postpartum period.
    • List at least 3 barriers to breastfeeding and know how to overcome these barriers.
    • List ways in which breastfeeding promotes parent-infant attachment.
    • Apply the 3-step plan to informed decision-making in practical situations.
    • Adopt Baby-Friendly practices to promote, protect and support breastfeeding.
    • List at least 3 local or provincial sources of support for mothers.

    Also available in French.

  • Targeted Supports for Ontario Populations with Lower Rates of Breastfeeding

    Targeted Supports for Ontario Populations with Lower Rates of Breastfeeding

    Dans le cadre d’une vaste stratégie visant à réduire l’obésité infantile en Ontario, Nexus santé a été financé par le gouvernement de l’Ontario en vue d’offrir des services de soutien à l’allaitement ciblés aux populations à faible taux d’allaitement maternel, par le biais de Meilleur départ, un programme clé de Nexus santé. Ce projet a été lancé en décembre 2013 et conclu en mars 2016. Le présent rapport en ligne résume les stratégies adoptées dans le cadre du projet, ainsi que les recommandations pour tirer parti de cet investissement et soutenir davantage les services liés à l’allaitement maternel en Ontario.

     

    Également disponible en français.

  • Breastfeeding for the Health and Future of our Nation

    Breastfeeding for the Health and Future of our Nation

    This booklet was developed to support Indigenous women who are thinking about breastfeeding or who are currently breastfeeding. It will help future and new Indigenous mothers reclaim the tradition of breastfeeding. It provides information about Indigenous traditions around breastfeeding, how the teachings of the Medicine Wheel support the teachings about breastfeeding, why breastfeeding is important, how to get started and continue to breastfeed. It will answer common questions about breastfeeding, and provide useful additional information and resources.

    Also available in Cree and Ojibway.

  • Targeted Supports for Ontario Populations with Lower Rates of Breastfeeding

    Targeted Supports for Ontario Populations with Lower Rates of Breastfeeding

    As part of a comprehensive strategy to address childhood obesity in Ontario, Health Nexus was funded by the Government of Ontario to offer targeted breastfeeding supports to populations with lower rates of breastfeeding and carried out by Best Start, a key program of Health Nexus. This project was initiated in December 2013 and wrapped up in March 2016. This online report summarizes the project strategies and results as well as recommendations to build on this investment and further support breastfeeding services in Ontario.

     

    Also available in French.

  • Breastfeeding for the Health and Future of our Nation

    Breastfeeding for the Health and Future of our Nation

    Ce livret a été développé pour soutenir les femmes autochtones qui pensent à allaiter au sein, ou qui allaitent déjà au sein. Il aidera les future et nouvelles mères autochtones à réhabiliter la tradition de l’allaitement maternel. Il offre de l’information sur les traditions autochtones autour de l’allaitement maternel, sur la manière dont les enseignements du cercle d’influences sont en faveur de l’allaitement maternel, sur les raisons pour lesquelles l’allaitement maternel est important, sur comment le mettre en place et continuer à allaiter au sein. Il répondra aux questions les plus fréquentes sur l’allaitement maternel, et indiquera de nombreuses informations et ressources supplémentaires.

    Également disponible en ojibwé et en cri

  • Learning from Stories: Prenatal Breastfeeding Education

    Learning from Stories: Prenatal Breastfeeding Education

    This booklet is part of a series of five Learning from Stories booklets, in which the actions being taken in Ontario to support breastfeeding were surveyed using a Healthy Communities Approach, and the qualitative results of the interviews gathered into stories by the interviewers/writers, in the hope of inspiring and helping service providers in Ontario to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding.

    Literature and Ontario-based birth data show that breastfeeding rates, and in particular exclusive breastfeeding rates, are linked to prenatal education. Prenatal breastfeeding education can be provided in many formats. It is often led by a professional facilitator, but can also be led by another mother (peer). This booklet gives examples of peer-facilitated prenatal breastfeeding education in part one, and professional-facilitated prenatal breastfeeding education in part two.

     

    Also available in French.

     

    See also the other booklets of the Learning from Stories series:
    Supporting Exclusive Breastfeeding (in English and French)
    Breastfeeding Promotion to Increase Awareness and Confidence (in English and French)
    Breastfeeding Education for Health Care Providers (in English and French)
    Breastfeeding and Younger Women (in English and French)

  • Learning from Stories: Breastfeeding Promotion to Increase Awareness and Confidence

    Learning from Stories: Breastfeeding Promotion to Increase Awareness and Confidence

    This booklet is part of a series of five Learning from Stories booklets, in which the actions being taken in Ontario to support breastfeeding were surveyed using a Healthy Communities Approach, and the qualitative results of the interviews gathered into stories by the interviewers/writers, in the hope of inspiring and helping service providers in Ontario to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding.

    Women are still often made to feel uncomfortable while breastfeeding in public or asked to leave public places such as restaurants or malls. This booklet gathers inspiring stories of service providers and public health officials efforts to reduce this barrier to breastfeeding exclusivity and duration by striving to increase public awareness.

     

    Also available in French.

     

    See also the other booklets in the Learning from Stories series:
    Supporting Exclusive Breastfeeding (in English and in French)
    Prenatal Breastfeeding Education (in English and in French)
    Breastfeeding Education for Health Care Providers (in English and in French)
    Breastfeeding and Younger Women (in English and in French)

  • Learning from Stories: Breastfeeding Promotion to Increase Awareness and Confidence

    Learning from Stories: Breastfeeding Promotion to Increase Awareness and Confidence

    Ce livret fait partie d’une série de 5 livres Tirer des leçons de cas vécus. Ces livres résultent d’une étude des initiatives visant à soutenir l’allaitement maternel en Ontario par une approche “Communautés en santé” : les résultats qualitatifs des entrevues y ont été rassemblés en récits par les personnes responsables des entretiens et de la rédaction, dans le but de motiver et d’aider les prestataires de services de l’Ontario à protéger, promouvoir et soutenir l’allaitement maternel.

    Les femmes sont régulièrement mises dans l’embarras parce qu’elles allaitent en public, et certaines se voient demander de quitter le lieu public où elles se trouvent pour allaiter. Ce livret rassemble des récits motivants de responsables de la santé publique et de partisans de l’allaitement de la communauté qui ont tenté d’aplanir ces obstacles à l’allaitement maternel exclusif et prolongé, en s’efforçant d’accroître la sensibilisation du public et son soutien.

     

    Également disponible en français.

     

    Consultez également les autres livrets de la série Tirer des leçons de cas vécus:
    Soutenir l’allaitement maternel exclusif (en français et en anglais)
    La formation prénatale en allaitement (en français et en anglais)
    L’éducation à l’allaitement maternel des prestataires de soins de santé (en français et en anglais)
    L’allaitement maternel et les jeunes femmes (en français et en anglais)

  • Learning from Stories: Breastfeeding and Younger Women

    Learning from Stories: Breastfeeding and Younger Women

    This booklet is part of a series of five Learning from Stories booklets, in which the actions being taken in Ontario to support breastfeeding were surveyed using a Healthy Communities Approach, and the qualitative results of the interviews gathered into stories by the interviewers/writers, in the hope of inspiring and helping service providers in Ontario to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding.

    This booklet focuses on young mothers. Teenage mothers can and will breastfeed if given support and acceptance. Many of the young mothers in the following stories found their support and acceptance through peer role models.We hope that service providers will get inspired to be on the lookout – not only for unique ways of mentoring but also for new ways to surround young mothers with support and acceptance.

     

    Also available in French.

     

    See also the other booklets in the Learning from Stories series:
    Supporting Exclusive Breastfeeding (in English and French)
    Breastfeeding Promotion to Increase Awareness and Confidence (in English and French)
    Prenatal Breastfeeding Education (in English and French)
    Breastfeeding Education for Health Care Providers (in English and French)

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