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Digging Deep: What Drives Infant Feeding Choices?. Reflecting on Babies. https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEduV4t2-Wc. Afternoon Overview. Supporting Healthy Infant Feeding Relationships Reflecting on How Baby Behaviors Supports Infant Nutritional Assessment and Counseling
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Reflecting on Babies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEduV4t2-Wc
Afternoon Overview • Supporting Healthy Infant Feeding Relationships • Reflecting on How Baby Behaviors Supports Infant Nutritional Assessment and Counseling • Applying Baby Behaviors to the Top 10 Infant Feeding Traffic Jams and Detours
Breastfeeding…Our Foundation Baby Behaviors is another opportunity for breastfeeding promotion and support.
Baby Behaviors • LMS • In-Service • Why have we integrated Baby Behaviors into Arizona WIC?
Engagement • Smiling • Looking Intently • Cooing • Smooth movements • Open eyes/relaxed • Feeding posture • Following Voice
Disengagement • Turns away • Crying • Pushes, arches • Choking, coughing • Stiffens • Falls asleep, yawning • Faster breathing • Hand to ear • Grimace or Glazed look
Hunger – Cluster Cues • Clenched Fingers and fists over chest and tummy • Flexed arms and legs • Rooting • Fast breathing • Sucking noises/motions
Quick Review • Cues = Baby Communication • Important: the state a baby is in will give you a clue as to what their cues mean
Infant States • What cues are you likely to see? • Crying • Irritable • Quiet Alert • Drowsy • Active Sleep (Light Sleep) • Quiet Sleep (Deep Sleep)
Infant StatesWhat cues are you likely to see? • Crying • Irritable • Quiet Alert • Drowsy • Active Sleep (Light Sleep) • Quiet Sleep (Deep Sleep)
Quick Review • What is the key to helping an irritable or crying baby? • Repetition to Soothe • How do you know if it is working? • Change in Cry
Bottom Line • Crying doesn’t always = hunger • Hunger has many cues • Responding to cues early helps reduce crying • Crying is a “superpower” • Knowing about sleep avoids “triggers”
Bringing It All Together Baby Behaviors is not a new way to do business…it just allows us to dig deeper into infant feeding relationships.
Supporting Healthy Feeding Relationships • The look, recognize, and respond of Baby Behavior can be applied throughout childhood. • Because being a parent of an infant is… • Stressful • Exhausting • Scary • Other?
How Does Baby Behaviors Support the Concept of Health At Every Size With Infants?
What’s Working? • What’s Not?
Introducing the “Wheel of Destiny” Your Baby Behaviors Counseling Cheat Sheet.
Uncovering the Top 10 Infant Feeding Traffic Jams and Detours
1. Baby is Always Crying/Hungry • Dig Deep: What Baby Behaviors? • What about mom?
2. Good Babies Sleep Through The Night • Dig Deep: What Baby Behaviors? • Cues? • What about mom?
What baby behaviors/cues might parents be seeing? • Using your ABCDE guide, what risk codes might you assign? • What may be under the surface for mom that you should consider when offering the message?
1. Cereal in the Bottle • Dig Deep: What Baby Behaviors? • Cues? • ABCDE Guide • Risk Codes? • What about mom?
2. Early Introduction of Complementary Foods • Dig Deep: What Baby Behaviors? • Cues? • ABCDE Guide • Risk Codes? • What about mom?
3. Bottle Preparation • Dig Deep: What Baby Behaviors? • Cues? • ABCDE Guide • Risk Codes? • What about mom?
4. Schedules • Dig Deep: What Baby Behaviors? • Cues? • ABCDE Guide • Risk Codes? • What about mom?
5. Baby ‘needs’ to finish this bottle • Dig Deep: What Baby Behaviors? • Cues? • ABCDE Guide • Risk Codes? • What about mom?
6. Baby is fussy during feedings – Force feeding • Dig Deep: What Baby Behaviors? • Cues? • ABCDE Guide • Risk Codes? • What about mom?
7. I Don’t Have Enough Milk • Dig Deep: What Baby Behaviors? • Cues? • ABCDE Guide • Risk Codes? • What about mom?
8. Other? (What else do you hear from AZ WIC families?) • Dig Deep: What Baby Behaviors? • Cues? • ABCDE Guide • What about mom?
What About Older Babies? • Still apply the… • Look • Recognize • Respond To help caregiver understand what baby is trying to communicate
Revisiting the Wheel of Destiny • Birth – 3 months • 4 -5 months • 6 – 9 months • 10 – 12 months
Baby Behaviors Materials • Parents Booklet • Clinic Posters • Other needs?
Take Home Message • Baby behavior is the foundation of supporting healthy feeding relationships between infants and caregivers