Course curriculum

    1. Welcome To Bringing Home Baby

    1. Introduction

    2. Skin To Skin

    3. Your Newborns Body

    4. Newborn Procedures

    5. The First Two Days

    6. We're Home

    7. Your Home With A Baby

    8. Day 1 at Home

    9. Handout: What to bring to the hospital

    10. Additional Resources

    11. Bonus Drop In Tips

    12. BRAIN - Acronym

    13. A Day in the Life

    14. Babywearing

    15. Baby wearing TICKS

    1. Introduction

    2. Bonding and Attachment

    3. Baby Cues

    4. Tired Cues

    5. I'm Hungry Cues

    6. I Need a Break Cues

    7. Play With Me Cues

    8. Tummy Time

    9. Tummy Massage

    10. Crying

    11. Crying Peaks

    12. Soothing

    13. Handout: Newborn Checklist

    14. Additional Resources

    1. Introduction

    2. Decision Making

    3. Burping

    4. Poop Colours

    5. Hunger Cues

    6. How To Support Each Other

    7. Breastfeeding

    8. Benefits of Breastfeeding

    9. Breastmilk Storage

    10. Latching

    11. Engorgement

    12. How a Newborn Feeds

    13. Vitamin D

    14. Positions

    15. How To Know It's Going Well

    16. Leaking

    17. What Is Normal

    18. How To Support Breastfeeding Mothers

    19. Formula Feeding

    20. Tips For Formula Feeding

    21. What Do You Need?

    22. Types of Formula

    23. How To Bottle Feed Your Baby

    24. How To Tell If The Baby Is Stressed While Feeding

    25. Signs of Fullness

    26. Formula Storage

    27. Bottle Feeding Tips

    28. Paced Bottle Feeding

    29. How Partners Can Support A Bottle Feeding Parent

    30. What If I Want To Do Both? Formula and Breastfeed

    31. Growth Spurts

    32. Belly Sizes

    33. The First 24 Hours

    34. Craddle Cap

    35. Kylie Field

    36. Osteopathy

    37. Edwena

    38. Additional Resources

    39. Handout: Feeding Chart

    40. Bottle Brush Review

    1. Introduction

    2. Their Body

    3. Primitive Reflexes

    4. Umbilical Cord

    5. Fingernails

    6. Diapering

    7. Bathing

    8. Dressing Your Newborn

    9. Sleep

    10. Kinds of Sleep

    11. Safe Sleep

    12. Lindsay Lewis

    13. Nasal Aspirators

    14. Hair Tourniquets

    15. Baby Has a Cold

    16. Newborns and Technology

    17. Additional Resources

    1. Introduction

    2. The 5W's for Postpartum Planning

    3. Postpartum Plan

    4. Hot Topics

    5. Optimizing Parental Sleep

    6. Postpartum Anxiety & Depression

    7. Postpartum Resources

    8. Postpartum Snacks

    9. Amy MacAualay

    10. Jessie Harrold

    11. Pelvico

    12. Additional Resources

    13. Baby Friendly Emergency Kit

    14. Pets and a New Baby

About this course

  • $149.99
  • 101 lessons
  • 3 hours of video content

Meet the Instructor

Amy MacAulay

Amy MacAulay is the founder of Embrace Doula and is passionate and dedicated to providing postpartum support in HRM. With over ten years of experience working with children and their families, Amy provides equal amounts of knowledge, kindness, and comfort when providing postpartum care to her clients.

Originally from PEI, Amy made Halifax her home in 2000 where she met her husband James and welcomed their two amazing children, Jasper and Fiona. From a very young age, Amy loved helping families and provided babysitting for many young babies and children after school and on the weekends. Her natural love for child development led her to a degree in Early Childhood Education and careers as an Early Childhood Educator and Community Home Visitor. This evolved into becoming a birth doula and postpartum doula: well-known and loved by her past and previous clients.

Since 2008 Amy has supported her clients through the thickness of sleep deprivation, feeding challenges, postpartum recovery, multiples and the navigation of new parenthood. After running a breastfeeding support group for seven years, being a birth doula for nine years, she is experienced working with singletons, multiples, breastfeeding, babywearing, infant massage and can offer insight when debriefing your birth story. Amy offers families compassion, knowledge, and over ten years of experience to make your postpartum experience what you desire: calm, smooth, and confident.