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| CERP | 319011-d |
|---|---|
| CERP number letter | 0,75 L |
Mary trained as a nurse in the 1980s and then as a childbirth and parenting educator with a national UK charity, the NCT. She has worked with parents in the perinatal period across the UK and has trained birth and early parenting educators in the Republic of Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Europe as well as in the UK. In 2005, she was appointed Professor of Perinatal Education at the University of Worcester. Her research interests have focused on supporting fathers, enabling women to experience a positive birth and evaluation of early parenting programmes. Her books include Antenatal Education: A Dynamic Approach, Home Birth: The Politics of Difficult Choices and Parent Education for the Critical 1000 days, published last year. Nine years ago, she launched the International Journal of Birth and Parent Education, an independent, not-for-profit Journal for professionals working with families during the transition to parenthood. The Journal has a readership across the world. Mary lives in York in the north of England and has three daughters and four grandchildren.
More than ‘mother’s little helper’: the importance of including fathers in parental breastfeeding education
0,75 L CERPs
8,00 €
This lecture will argue that engaging fathers and partners in breastfeeding education is a key aspect of achieving gender equity and improving mothers’ and babies’ health. Providing men with information and the opportunity to explore their feelings around infant feeding, and to share what they have heard from friends, family and colleagues, is an important strategy for reducing the burden of pregnancy planning and early parenting on women.
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