Consider benefits of adding HUG Your Baby’s “Birth, Breastfeeding and Beyond” to your curriculum.
Watch to learn how our evidence-based, digital course teaches maternity and pediatric nursing students how to counsel parents with babies birth to one year.
HUG Your Baby responds to the challenges today’s Schools of Nursing face by providing:
Two-hour digital HUG program, Birth, Breastfeeding and Beyond.
Available for uploading to school’s learning system
Engaging parent-child videos, inspiring case studies and memorable graphics
Multicultural and inclusive images
Variety of teaching strategies to address diverse learning styles
Pre-/Post-tests and course evaluation
Demonstrates:
increased students’ knowledge of child’s development
heightened students’ confidence to teach parents
Research on HUG Your Baby in Schools of Nursing and Midwifery
Undergraduate nursing students taking a two-hour HUG Your Baby online course demonstrated increased knowledge of infant behavior, enhanced confidence to teach parents and would recommend the course to student nurses. (UNC-Chapel Hill SON – Alden, K. [2018]. JPE 27[2].) Click Here.
APNP students who completed HUG Your Baby’s virtual breastfeeding education during their women’s health or pediatric nurse practitioner curriculum showed significant gains in knowledge and confidence to support breastfeeding regardless of past personal or professional experience. Duke University SON - Malinda Teague, DNP, CPNP and Kathy Trotter, DNP, WHNP, CNM. Jo of Nurse Practitioners, 19 (2), 104468. (2023). Click Here.
BSN students completing a two-hour virtual HUG Your Baby course demonstrated significant improvement in knowledge about infant behavior and in confidence to teach parents. Heidi Temples, PhD, APRN, IBLCL. Society of Pediatric Nursing Poster Presentation, 2024. Click Here.
Article reviews components of the Japanese HUG Your Baby program, nursing faculty’s positive response to it, and the potential of the HUG Your Baby’ program to improve outcomes for young Japanese families. Shimpuku, Y. and Tedder, J. (2013). Japanese Journal of Nursing Education, 54(12): 1114-1118.
ABSN students noted that the HUG Your Baby practicum reinforced content learned in the online course and provided an opportunity to imagine using this content with patients. (UNC-Chapel Hill SON – pending publication)
ADN students gave positive feedback about completing the introductory HUG Your Baby online course and would recommend this training to other ADN students. (Rock Valley College, Illinois SON - pending publication)
HUG Your Baby is featured in the best-selling maternal/child textbook, Maternal Child Nursing Care. Sixth Edition. Perry, S., Lowdermilk, D., et al (2018). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier. See Chapter 23, “Helping Parents Recognize, Interpret, and Respond to Newborn Behaviors.”
Research by MSN, PhD and DNP Nursing Students using HUG Your Baby training and resources
East Asian professors of nursing concluded that a HUG Your Baby intervention group showed decreased postpartum depression and increases parent confidence compared to the control group. There were more than 100+ participants in each group. Lead author: Yoko Shimpuku, Hiroshima College of Nursing. Women and Birth. 35(5), 4456-463. (2021). Click Here.
Nevada WIC professionals who completed HUG Your Baby’s online course, “Roadmap to Breastfeeding Success,” showed significant improvement in knowledge about baby’s behavior and development, confidence in identifying and responding to infant behavior, changes in teaching objectives, and the integration of HUG resources into the professionals’ work. Grace Wagner, MSN, APRN, CPNP; Eleanor Stevenson, PhD, RN; Jan Tedder, BSN, FNP, IBCLC; Anne Derouin, DNP, APRN, CPNP, FAANP. (2021) . Journal of Perinatal Education. 31(3): 1-11 http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/JPE-2021-0011
Positive impact of integrating HUG Your Baby into a E-learning module for Japanese nurses included: a shift from nurse-centered to parent-centered teaching, inclusion of infant behavior in parent education and enhanced focus on maternal-child bonding. Ota, Y. (2021).HUG Your Baby Training Effectively Integrated into New E-learning Program for Japanese Maternity Nurses. Journal of Japanese Academy of Midwifery. https://doi.org/10.3418/jjam.JJAM-2020-0032. Click here for summary of article in English.
Incorporating HUG information in a childbirth education class resulted in an increase in expectant mothers’ intention to breastfeed and their breastfeeding self-efficacy in the intervention vs. to a control group. Rippe, M. (April 30, 2020). Carolina Digital Repository. Click Here.
Researcher successfully developed a “Toolkit” that increased attendance at a parenting program and enhanced volunteers’ confidence to teach about infant behavior using HUG Your Baby resources. Hughes, K. (2017). Global Nursing E-Repository. May.
“HUG Your Baby is an innovative and effective resource for teaching nursing students key aspects of infant-mother bonding, feeding and developmental cues.”
“The videos gave me confidence that I could actually teach parents just like the instructor! This is a game-changer for me and the patients I will have in the years ahead.”