E-learning for paediatricians

Our e-learning platform enables users to work at their own pace while gaining a strong foundation of knowledge around supporting infant feeding and parent-infant relationship building.

If you are already registered in the system, visit https://babyfriendly.litmos.com to login.

The course is split into modules, allowing learners to pause and resume where they left off. The course provides CPD points for the paediatrician.

Following completion, paediatricians and neonatologists will gain more understanding about:

• Supporting the development and maintenance of close and loving relationships between babies and parents during hospital-based care
• The importance of breastmilk and breastfeeding
• Supporting breastfeeding on the postnatal ward, neonatal unit, and within hospital-based children’s services
• How breastfeeding works
• Managing common conditions such as hypoglycaemia, jaundice and weight loss
• Enabling parents to be partners in care

When your service subscribes to this training package, administrative level access is allocated as your service requires. This then enables tracking of those required to complete the training package and management of user access. You will also be provided with a self sign-up code to enable users to register directly. Upon completion of the training, a certificate can be accessed for use in professional portfolios.

Costs and booking

Order using the Baby Friendly digital resources order form, which you can download from our Resources page.

The online training package is available to purchase in three different models depending on the number of births in your area. Licences to access the package are valid for one year. Although the focus of the package is for medical staff, there is no restriction on how many staff in your hospital can use the package, so it could be used as induction or update training for any staff – for example, neonatal practitioners, paediatric and neonatal nursing staff, midwives, students. Costings for renewals for subsequent years are less than the first year.

• 0 – 2,000 births per year: £600 for the first year, £400 for each additional year
• 2,000 – 5,000 births per year: £850 per year, £575 for each additional year
• 5,000+ births per year: £1,100 per year, £700 for each additional year.

Contact the Baby Friendly office if you are looking to purchase the package for several hospitals as part of a Trust or Health Board, and would like a 24 hour demonstration access of the package.

Browse the images below to see parts of the package.