Infant and Young Child Feeding Workshop
Date: 27th January 2027 | Time: 9:00 am to 4:30 pm
Venue: Karpagam Faculty of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore
Highlights
- Mastering optimal infant and young child feeding practices for a healthier tomorrow.
- To master skills on supporting breastfeeding, to develop strategies to tackle feeding issues.
- To gain evidence based nutritional guidance on early initiation of breastfeeding, complementary feeding and feeding in special circumstances.
- Enhance counselling and communication skills.
Who Can Attend?
- Practising paediatricians and neonatologists
- Doctors and nurses from maternity hospitals
- Post graduates (paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, community medicine)
- Dietician, Nutritionist
Workshop Registration Fee
DELEGATE: 2,500/-
PG: 2,000/-
Co-ordinators & Faculties
- National Co-ordinator
- Dr. CR Banapurmath
- State Co-ordinator
- Dr. R Somasekar
- Local Co-ordinators
- Dr. Arunkumar T | Dr. Aishvarya R
- Faculties
- Dr. C R Banapurmath | Dr. Roopa Bellad | Dr. K E Elizabeth | Dr. R Somasekar | Dr. Arun Kumar T | Dr. H B Mallikarjuna | Dr. Prashanth Saboth | Dr. Kristin Indumathi
Schedule
| Time | Topic | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 – 9:30 am | Registration | |
| 9:30 – 9:50 am | “Milk Transfer – A Crucial Step, Needs Skill Transfer” | Dr. H B Mallikarjuna |
| 9:50 – 10:20 am | “Ask, Look and Analyse” – Decoding the nuances of observing and assessing a breast feed | Dr. C R Banapurmath |
| 10:20 – 10:40 am | “Getting Ready Before the Bump Becomes a Baby” – Antenatal preparation for breastfeeding | Dr. Arun Kumar T |
| 10:40 – 11:00 am | “A Fresh Look at 10 Steps of BFHI” | Dr. Roopa Bellad |
| 11:00 – 11:30 am | Tea Break | |
| 11:30 am – 12:00 pm | “Counselling Skills” – The backbone to successful breastfeeding | Dr. R Somasekar |
| 12:00 – 12:30 pm | Complementary Feeding – “When, What and How” | Dr. K E Elizabeth |
| 12:30 – 1:00 pm | Inauguration | |
| 1:00 – 2:00 pm | Lunch Break | |
| 2:00 – 3:00 pm | Skill Station 1: Skills of positioning and attachment, preparing breast model and expressing breast milk, cup feeding demonstration | Dr. H B Mallikarjuna, Dr. Prashanth Saboth, Dr. Arun Kumar T, Dr. C R Banapurmath |
| 3:00 – 4:00 pm | Skill Station 2: Complementary feeding, suitable and unsuitable complementary feeding, hands on preparation of complementary feeding for 7, 10 and 15 months old baby | Dr. K E Elizabeth, Dr. Roopa Bellad, Dr. R Somasekar, Dr. Kristin Indumathi |
| 4:00 – 4:30 pm | Summary of 30 skills, Question and Answer | All resource persons |
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