Webinar: Creating Strong Bonds: A Doula’s Perspective on Newborn Bonding With Parents
This webinar explores how a strong bond and attachment play a vital role in a child’s growth and development.
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Webinar: Ending Chancla Culture – Decolonizing Our Familias and Raising Future Ancestors
In many Latinx families, it’s understood that the chancla wasn’t just made for walking. But “chancla culture” is pernicious. Watch this webinar to learn more.
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Webinar: Vaccination Safety for Pregnant Women and Children
This webinar covers vaccine safety, risks of delayed schedules, the benefits of Tdap for the mother and infant, and different resources and tools available to encourage vaccination.
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Webinar: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Safe Infant Sleep
There are about 3,500 sleep-related deaths among babies in the United States each year. But a recent study showed that less than half of parents adhere to safe-sleep guidelines — and many are not even getting adequate or accurate information on the subject from health care providers. This webinar covers the latest research on SIDS and explains what all parents should do to ensure their babies are sleeping as safely as possible.
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Webinar: Supporting Parents After Perinatal Loss
It’s hard to know what to say to a parent who has lost a baby. In this webinar, home visitors learn how to support moms and dads who have experienced this traumatic event.
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Webinar: Importance of Fatherhood, Engaging Dads in Home Visiting
This week, Project Fatherhood’s LeHenry Solomon presented a webinar to the Parent Coaches from the 14 Welcome Baby hospitals in L.A. County. We’ve included the recording here, along with several other resources on fatherhood and on helping dads be better parents.
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“Learn the Signs. Act Early.” Resources and Training on Early Childhood Development From the CDC
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of its Learn the Signs. Act Early. program, the CDC has posted new resources and training — perfect for home visitors and families with little ones. And there’s plenty more where these came from …
Read MoreVideo: Dr. Sean Kossari Highlights the Benefits of ‘Welcome Baby’
San Fernando Valley OB/GYN Dr. Sean Kossari tells Welcome Baby outreach specialist Mardee Jessop why he encourages all his patients to enroll in the Welcome Baby program. Specific topics include: parent education, breastfeeding, parent-child bonding, maternal depression, and helping parents understand healthy infant development.
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