Newborn Care Specialist Signature Program Santa Monica, CA November 9 & 10 2024

#1 Course: Newborn Care Specialist Associate Training (ANCS)

The course is designed to give you all the tools to become a Newborn Care Specialist, and we're excited to share our project management system designed just for this course. 

  • You will have lifetime access for as long as we have the course. 

Day 1

  • Newborn Appearance and Characteristics
  • Normal Reflexes
  • Newborn Senses
  • Newborn Respiration
  • Circumcision Care

Day 1

  • How to hold a newborn
  • How to soothe a fussy baby
  • What is Shaken Baby Syndrome
  • Bathing a newborn
  • Tips for dressing a newborn
  • How to change an infant's diaper
  • Top 3 Different Diaper Rashes
  • Nail Care
  • Cradle Cap
  • Baby Laundry
  • Baby Car Seat Safety

Day 1

  • How to Feed Newborns
  • Learn How Newborns Communicate
  • Newborn Feeding Schedules Explained
  • How to Cluster Feed a Newborn
  • Baby Formula
  • Feeding Issues-CDC Guidelines
  • Different Baby Bottles
  • Human Milk Storage Guidelines
  • What are the side effects of Changing Baby Formula?
  • How to Burp a Baby

Day 1

  • Swaddling Overview
  • Sound Machines
  • Why use Pacifiers?
  • Different Bottles
  • Week 1 Development
  • First Week as a Newborn Care Specialist
  • Problems That Happen the First Week
  • Week 2 and 3 Development
  • Secret Key to Sleep-Playtime
  • Week 4 Development
  • Week 5 Development
  • Week 6 to 16 Development

Day 1

  • How to work Overnight
  • Expectation -Log Book
  • Example of an NCS Overnight
  • Mistakes I've Made on the Job
  • Not Being Clear on Overnight Care
  • Overnight Framework-How to Book a Client
  • Phone Role Playing/Keeping a Personal Project Report

Day 2

  • Safe Sleep Guidelines 
  • SUID (Sudden Unexpected Infant Death)
  • Sleep Stats-Newborn
  • Different Sleep Methods
  • Sleep Issues
  • Definition of a Preterm Baby by the World Health Organization
  • Nursery Setup
  • Diaper Essentials
  • Baby Feeding Essentials
  • Baby Monitors

Day 2

  • Newborn Ailments
  • What is RSV?
  • Newborn -Cause of Vomiting
  • Jaundice 
  • Failure to Thrive
  • Colic
  • Umbilical Hernia
  • Torticollis
  • Newborn and Covid

Day 2

  • Premature Babies
  • What Health Problems Can a Premature Baby Have?
  • How to Calculate the Preemie-Adjusted Age?
  • Difference Between NICU & PICU
  • Human Milk Fortifier

Day 2

  • How to Take Care of Multiples
  • Getting Setup for Multiples
  • Bathing Multiples
  • Parent Coaching 101
  • Bottle-Feeding Multiples
  • How to Feed and Work Overnight with Multiples

Day 2

  • Maternal Issues 
  • Baby Blues
  • Postpartum Depression 
  • Postpartum Psychosis
  • C-Section Complications

We will discuss this topic during the Q&A session.

  • Interviews and Contracts
  • Retainer Vs. Deposit
  • What happens when you're FIRED?
  • How to talk to clients SCRIPTS

When you have completed the course+assignments, you will receive a certificate of completion. Email staff, you have completed the course. [email protected]