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OCN Level 5 Postnatal Maternity Nurse Training

Module 1 – Cultural sensitivity when working with families.

Module 2 – Birth and immediate postpartum care and the effects of complicated deliveries.

Module 3 – Effects of birth and intra-uterine positioning on the baby, prematurity.

Module 4 – Perinatal Mental Health.

Module 5 – Tongue Tie.

Module 6 – Breastfeeding and complex feeding problems.

Module 7 – Epigenetics, gut health and allergies and reflux.

E-learning course requirements

In order to complete the online element of the Maternity Nurse Training candidates are required to have the following in place:

  • Internet access and a working email address.
  • Up to date internet browser such as: Google Chrome/ Internet Explorer/Safari/FireFox.
  • Use of a computer to study the course – tablets and smartphones are not advisable for studying.

CHRISTINA LENZ

PAEDIATRIC OSTEOPATH
Christina practises both traditional manipulative osteopathy and osteopathy in the cranial field. She has extensive experience working with adults and children. Besides being a practising osteopath, Christina also fulfils academic roles on the postgraduate programmes on paediatric osteopathy at the Osteopathic Centre for Children in London and the Osteopathie-Schule Deutschland in Hamburg. She is Co-author of the book “Pruefungswissen Osteopathie”.

DR LOUISE M PAGE

CONSULTANT OBSTETRICIAN & GYNAECOLOGIST
Consultant Obstetrician, Gynaecologist & Clinical Director of Clinical Effectiveness & Outcomes at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. When Louise is not practising she is teaching as an honorary senior lecturer at Imperial College, London. She has a special interest in pregnancy in women with underlying medical conditions. Louise aims to support women with their choices for labour and delivery and promotes normality wherever possible. She has an academic interest in Patient Safety working to create safe systems of care within maternity services.

REBECCA CONSULTANT PERINATAL

PSYCHIATRIST & CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
Rebecca is a perinatal psychiatrist working in the NHS and privately providing assessments for women with anxiety and depression in the postnatal period, PTSD, Birth Trauma, issues related to infertility or premenstrual syndrome. Rebecca has 20 years of experience in Psychiatry and has been a perinatal psychiatrist in London’s only outstanding NHS rated trust for the past nine years. Rebecca has been quoted in or interviewed for a broad range of regional and national and publications including: Daily Mail, Royal College of Psychiatrists Perinatal Quality Network Newsletter, PLOS, Psychology Today, Broadly, Selfish Mother and Well Doing.

DR. EMMA SVANBERG

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
Chartered clinical psychologist Dr Emma Svanberg (DClinPsy) is known as The Mumologist and works with parents and parents to be supporting them through their parenting journey. Working as part of a collective, Emma and her colleagues together offer whole-family support in person and through her online community The Village. Emma is a published author and her work has been featured in The Guardian, Marie Claire, BBC News and Mother & Baby. She brings over 10 years of academic and clinical experience to help you understand why this period should not be treated as ‘business as usual’, but is a time of immense pressure and stress for parents.

SHEL BANKS

IBCLC & COLIC, REFLUX & INFANT ALLERGIES EXPERT
Shel is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant with extensive experience within the NHS in research, training and project management. Her own successful private practice assists mothers and babies with feeding issues, and she also works in the tertiary sector with various national organisations. She is the author of “Why Formula Feeding Matters”, and is currently working on the Cochrane systematic reviews on Infantile Colic. Shel is heavily involved in the voluntary sector being the Vice-Chair for the UK Association of Milk Banking, and Chair of Communications Team for the Lactation Consultants of Great Britain.

DR LYNDSEY HOOKWAY

CO-FOUNDER &
CLINICAL DIRECTOR
HOLISTIC SLEEP COACHING
Lyndsey is an experienced paediatric nurse, specialist community public health nurse (health visitor), international board certified lactation consultant and holds multiple additional credentials from birth trauma, non-directive counselling, Brazelton newborn behaviour observation, Solihull and numerous sleep organisations. Lyndsey is the published author of 6 books and numerous published academic articles and regularly speaks internationally. She is often asked to deliver training to national and international organisations and collaborates with several international responsive sleep and parenting charities. Having supported hundreds of families with sleep internationally for 10 years, Lyndsey now focuses on her work as a researcher and mentor.

MAUREEN MINCHIN

MEDICAL HISTORIAN
Maureen Minchin is a world renowned medical historian whose 1970s experience of motherhood resulted in her second book, Food for Thought: a parent’s guide to food intolerance, recognized as ground breaking in its treatment of infant allergy. Her third book, Breastfeeding Matters, was declared a “milestone in the history of breastfeeding” by Prof JD Baum. For 35 years she has worked extensively in the area of infant nutrition, including for WHO, and UNICEF, and teaching health professionals in Australia and overseas. She was influential in the creation of IBLCE and BFHI, and a founding (and later Board) member of both ILCA and ALCA. Maureen has continued to work free of charge with families with both infant feeding and allergy problems. Her latest book, Milk Matters: Infant Feeding and Immune Disorder was published in 2015.

EMMA DEWEY

CO-FOUNDER
HOLISTIC SLEEP COACHING
DIRECTOR
BABYEM
Emma is the director of the childcare training agency Babyem. Babyem specialises in offering accredited childcare and postnatal maternity nurse training courses in the UK, internationally and also online. In addition to running Babyem, Emma works with organisations internationally, supporting them to develop their training, policies and procedures. With a background in Children Services, Emma speaks frequently at conferences and has written a number of best practice guidance documents for Local Authorities and Associations.