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Please copy the items below, paste them into the online program, complete then click "Submit". Name: Email: How did you learn about The HUG? What is your professional background?  Describe your work with young families and how you hope to utilize The HUG. Completing "Helping Parents Understand their Newborn", "Roadmap to Breastfeeding Success" and "HUG Strategies" are prerequisites for becoming a Certified HUG Teacher. These are each available as "live" HUG classes or online. How and when did you complete these? Please type your NAME and DATE here as an electronic signature that you have read and agree to the Certified HUG Teacher Memorandum of Agreement you just read:  Name: Date:

Conflict of Interest and Disclosure

Conflict of Interest:

There is no perceived or actual financial, professional or personal conflict of interest (self or family) for planners: Chaille O'Neal, Barbara Hotelling and Jan Tedder

 (Jan Tedder BSN, FNP, IBCLC - Electronic signature  12/29/2015)

Statement of Disclosure: 

1. Entire course must be completed to obtain credit.
2. HUG Your Baby has a parent educational DVD and handouts for sale as well as other professional educational activities. However, this educational activity is free of commercial advertising of products.
3. Jan Tedder, owner of HUG Your Baby LLC, financed the production of The HUG DVD, website, blog, and this online program.
4. There is no endorsement of any product by NCNA associated with this activity. The provider has declared her relationship to HUG Your Baby and its products.
5. It is expected that no presentation will relate to products governed by the Food and Drug Administration. 
6. THE EXPIRATION DATE FOR NC Nurses Association AWARDING CONTACT HOURS IS: 
1. March 15, 2017: HUG Strategies 
2. March 15, 2017: HUG Your Baby: Helping parents understand the language of a newborn
3. June 1, 2016: Certified HUG Teacher 
4. Oct. 19, 2017: Roadmap to Breastfeeding Success: Teaching newborn Behavior to Extend Breastfeeding Duration.  Also approved for IBCLC CERP credit until Oct. 13, 2017.

North Carolina Nurses Association:

This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the North Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

This is an approved activity and does not imply endorsement by the NCNA.

"Parent Visit" Form

Baby's Initials______; Gestational age at time of visit______; Gestational age at birth____

1. Newborn Zones
1. Did you explain newborn Zones to parents?
2. Which Zones did baby exhibit?
3. Did baby move suddenly between one Zone and another suggesting Zone regulation issues?
4. What help did baby need move successfully from one Zone to another?
2. SOSs – Signs of Over-Stimulation
1. Did you explain SOSs to parents?
2. What Body SOSs did you see?
3. What Behavioral SOSs did you see?
4. How did you respond to the SOSs?
3.  Eating
1. Did baby need help getting to the Ready Zone to eat?
2. Did baby show any SOSs during feeding?
3. What actions did you take to respond to SOSs?
4. Did the parent attempt to feed baby in the Resting Zone?
4. Calming
1. Did baby show any self calming behavior and did you point out these behaviors to the parents?
2. Did you demonstrate a stepwise approach to calming the baby?
3. Did you explain normal changes in the crying patterns of babies?
5. Sleeping
1. Did you explain the two types of sleep in a baby?
2. What signs of Active/Light sleep did you observe?
3. Did the parents consider how to help the baby “sleep through” Active/Light sleep?
4. Did the parents consider putting the baby down in Active/Light sleep?
6. Interactive Abilities
1. Did you get the baby to turn to and look at a toy or face?
2. Did you get the baby to turn to the parent’s voice?
3. Did you need swaddle the baby a few minutes to see if that increased her interactive ability?
4. What surprised the parent about the baby’s abilities?

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STUDY GUIDE for Certified HUG Teacher Reading List

Study Guide

The following articles and HUG Your Baby Blogs have been chosen because they will give you the background literature used to develop the Certified HUG Teacher program. The questions following the title of each article or HUG Blog will guide you in identifying key concepts from each reading.

1.    Give Them The HUG: An Innovative Approach to Helping Parents Understand the Language of Their Newborn

a.    What are the potential outcomes on a baby if he/she does not receive consistent, responsive care giving?

b.    What three characteristics help language used for teaching be effective and informative?

c.    What three skills help new parents gain confidence and effectiveness?

d.    Why can reading a baby’s cues be especially important to use with premature babies?

e.    Name the “Newborn Zones” and “SOSs”.

2.    The “HUG”: An Innovative Approach to Pediatric Nursing Care

a.    What is an example of how a practitioner might use “Start here, Not there?”

b.    What are two components of “Seeing and Sharing” a baby’s behavior?

c.    What does “Broadcasting” a child’s behavior mean?

d.    What does “Commentating” on a child’s behavior mean?

e.    How might the “Gaze, then Engage” strategy help a practitioner surface potential “sticky spots” with parents?

2.    Baby Business: A randomized controlled trial of a universal parenting program that aims to prevent early infant sleep and cry problems and associated parental depression.

a.    How common are infant crying and sleep problems?

b.    What are three potential adverse outcomes that might arise from untreated infant crying and sleep problems?

c.    This article claims that Infant sleep problems tend to arise when parents “actively help their infant to fall asleep.” List three nighttime practices that are associated with increased settling problems.

3.    The Brazelton Institute: Understanding the Baby's Language

a.    What are three key assumptions on which The Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale is based?

b.    List in order the four developmental tasks a newborn must achieve in order to grow and learn?

4.    The Touchpoints Model of Development

a.    What is a Touchpoint?

b.    How does a baby’s transition through a Touchpoint impact the baby’s behavior?

c.    What are the seven guiding principles of the Touchpoints model?

d.    List four normal Touchpoints that occur between birth and one year.

e.    What are possible ramifications if a parent does not anticipate and understand their child’s normal Touchpoints.

5.    “I love but do not like my baby” Blog

a.    All BUT ONE of the following are true about a baby’s temperament:

                                               i.     It is biologically based.

                                             ii.     It can be altered with dedicated effort by a parent.

                                            iii.     It is evident early in life.

                                            iv.     It shows up in many areas of the developing child’s life.

b.    The provider uses three of the following approaches to reassure the mother about her baby’s behavior. Which approach is NOT USED and would NOT be helpful.

                                               i.     Helping the mother see the baby’s ability to orient to an object

                                             ii.     Helping the mother see the baby’s response to the mother’s voice

                                            iii.     The provider explains the baby’s behavior AFTER she lets the baby demonstrate how he is “ok!”

                                            iv.     The provider tells the mother, “There is nothing to worry about.”

6.    “My baby doesn’t like my milk!” Blog

a.    List three objective findings that suggest breastfeeding is going well.

b.    List four behaviors that, if misunderstood, might cause a mother to think breastfeeding is not going well.

7.    “I don’t think my baby can see!” Blog

a.    What techniques might enhance a baby’s ability to visually engage with a parent?

b.    What SOSs might a parent see that could decrease a baby’s ability to engage?

8.    “Sleeping like a baby--or NOT!” Blog

a.    Describe the behavior of a baby in Active/Light Sleep.

b.    How might attempting to feed a baby during Active/Light Sleep decrease breastfeeding duration?

9.    Dr. T. Berry Brazelton’s Touchpoints (Part I)

a.    Why is it important for a parent to anticipate and understand an upcoming Touchpoint?

10.   Dr. T. Berry Brazelton’s Touchpoints (Part II)

a.    Describe how a mother might respond to a nine-month-old who is suddenly waking up more at night as he develops separation anxiety?

b.    What challenging nighttime problems might develop if a parent does not understand the nine-month-old Touchpoint?

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