HUG Your Baby

Online Courses

Engaging, Efficient, Effective Education

One Year to Complete a Course

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Helping parents understand their Newborn

  • Help parents identify baby’s “Resting, Ready and Rebooting Zones” and when she “sends out an “SOSs - Sign of Over-Stimulation.”

  • Help parents prevent problems around baby’s crying, sleeping and eating.

  • Two-hour online course

  • Earn two nursing or lactation credits.

HUG Strategies

  • Parents don’t care how much you know … until they know how much you care!

  • Discover HUG Strategies: “Start here, not there,” “See, then share,” “Gaze, then Engage.”

  • Two-hour course

  • Earn two nursing or lactation credits.

The Roadmap to Breastfeeding Success

  • Discover normal developmental events often misperceived as a breastfeeding problem.

  • Learn when surges in development (birth to one year) cause changes in baby’s eating, sleeping and general behavior.

  • Two-hour course

  • Earn two nursing or lactation credits.


Certified HUG Teacher

✔ Boost your confidence and teaching skills.

✔ Increase job satisfaction.

✔ Enhance your reputation as a birth, lactation and early parenting specialist.

the secret life of a nursing strike

  • 24% of babies “go on strike” from 3 to 12 months

  • A“strike” cause mothers to add formula or abandon breastfeeding

  • Explore how baby’s development and temperament might trigger a “strike”

  • Discover innovative solutions that boost mother’s confidence, knowledge of her baby and breastfeeding duration

  • Two-hour course

  • Earn two nursing or lactation credits.

Understanding and Caring for Late Preterm Infants

  • Late Preterm Infants (LPIs) are increasing world wide

  • LPIs have higher mortality and morbidity and parents have increased anxiety and depression

  • Explore the unique needs and behaviors of the LPI and discover innovative parent resources

  • Two-hour course

  • Earn two nursing or lactation credits.