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  You can help parents and caregivers to feel confident in their decisions and ability to meet their feeding goals. Parent self-efficacy is a significant predictor of breastfeeding outcomes. 1. Why is this a principle? IFD conversations present an opportunity to help parents and caregivers feel confident in their decisions and in their ability to […]

  Tailored information includes anticipatory guidance that is preventative and future-oriented. Realistic expectations about feeding, common feeding challenges, and normal infant and child behaviours increase parent self-efficacy. 1. Why is this a principle? Parents need anticipatory information and resources to help them with their decisions 7,12 so they can understand how each feeding option might […]

  Every parent or caregiver has their own context that influences their feeding decisions and needs tailored information. 1. Why is this a principle? Parents and caregivers can receive an overwhelming amount of information in pregnancy and through the early years. When you tailor information to parents or caregivers’ needs, you: limit unnecessary or redundant […]

  Feeding support often takes place when a parent or caregiver may experience increased sensitivity and decreased coping skills. How you communicate quality information, both verbally and non-verbally, matters. 1. Why is this a principle? Breastfeeding support often takes place during times that may be particularly vulnerable for families.             […]

  Parents and caregivers receive health messages, including misinformation, from many sources. You help parents and caregivers to make IFDs when you provide them with quality information that is accurate and reliable. 1. Why is this a principle? A lot of information is available to parents and caregivers about different feeding options, but not all […]

  Parents and caregivers are more receptive to information that is objective and unbiased. 1. Why is this a principle? Objectivity is considered a quality criteria for consumer health decisions.17 Recommendations on quality consumer health information encourage people to be wary if information “focuses on the advantages or disadvantages of one particular treatment choice without […]

  Your role is to help facilitate the parent or caregiver’s Informed Feeding Decision. 1. Why is this a principle? As explained in the video you just watched, we now know that parents and caregivers benefit from decision support that includes an emphasis on patient and family centred care. When supporting parents and caregivers with […]

  Decisions about infant and child feeding take place across the continuum of care, beginning in the prenatal period and continuing through early childhood. An IFD approach is used whenever the parent or caregiver is willing and able to participate in a conversation about their feeding decisions. This approach is also used when one or […]

  How does AHS define an Informed Feeding Decision? A feeding decision takes place when a parent or caregiver decides how to feed their child. The parent or caregiver is enabled to make an informed feeding decision when: They have information about the feeding options, their health benefits, safety issues, health risks and relevant contextual […]

  Lesson 4 Summary [ezcol_1quarter][/ezcol_1quarter][ezcol_3quarter_end] The LEARN model is a relational communication tool that you can use to include partners and supporters in breastfeeding. [/ezcol_3quarter_end]   (Continue to Module Evaluation.) Any thoughts? You may post your comments.