We offer the world's most in-depth training on Infant Reflux & Colic, created by the leading change-makers in the industry.
This Colic, Reflux and Infant Allergies course is for those working with families with babies who are suffering from colic or reflux, and who are showing signs of lactose intolerance, cows’ milk protein allergy and other food allergies and intolerances.
Reflux and cows milk allergy is often misdiagnosed and misunderstood. In this course we’re giving you the most up-to-date information and practical application strategies to better support the families you’re working with in a holistic, gentle, and effective way.
With our online infant allergies, reflux and colic training, you have the benefit of completing the course in your own time, at home, on the go, day or night. Course highlights include:
5 core modules, which include a mixture of text, audio, videos and quizzes to support all learning styles.
Listen to the audio version of the course. This gives you the flexibility to absorb the course material on the go!
Practical how-to documents that guide you through consultations.
Free ongoing support through lifetime access to our private facebook group. Being part of our active community you will have your questions answered by course tutors, which will support you not only when working through the course but also when working with families.
You will be trained by Shel Banks, THE leading expert in the industry on these issues. Shel has decades of experience, and is central to formulating industry guidelines including the Cochrane systematic reviews on Infantile Colic. You will have ongoing support from Shel and our other experts, helping you not only during the course, but also afterwards when you are with clients.
This course is the only colic, reflux and infant allergies course in the sector, delivered by leading experts, that has been awarded 6.35 L CERP's.
During the course, you will learn how to prevent, detect, understand and manage what’s going on for these distressed infants. You will explore what the underlying causes are, how you can reduce baby’s symptoms and get them back to being happy.
You will learn practical steps to support families with evidence-based information and case histories shared by specialists with decades of experience supporting families with infantile crying, allergy and immune disorder. We will be sharing the most up to date evidence base for the management of symptoms in all milk-fed babies, including medications, other prescription products, dietary changes and all kinds of other management strategies.
We’ll be giving you the newest spheres of scientific understanding including the microbiome, early neurological development and epigenetics. We will also be exploring the existing understanding of allergy and immune disorder, to help you understand the background of the symptoms.
“There is so little evidence-based research out there for parents around colic, reflux and allergies. As a result of this course, I now feel more confident supporting my clients.”
Marie Agunwa, Maternity Nurse
“Our Infant Allergies, Reflux & Colic Course is taught to a Level 4 standard, and you have the flexibility to complete the Level 3 or the Level 4 assessment.”
EMMA DEWEY DIRECTORY BABYEM
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We estimate that it will take approximately 6-8 hours to complete the online learning material. If you have opted to complete the accreditation, we estimate that this will take approximately 20-30 hours of learning.
CERPs are Continuing Education Recognition Points, especially for Lactation Consultants.
This is the only colic, reflux and infant allergies course in the sector that has been awarded 6.25 L-CERPS.
This course is designed to enable you to pass on your knowledge to the families you support. You may be able to deliver this information in a class or group setting.
Whilst there is no criteria for calling yourself a specialist in this area, do be mindful that there are others who have worked in this field who have decades of experience supporting families with these conditions. It’s important that you feel confident in the support you are giving, and this course will equip you with the foundations for being able to provide good support to families you are working with and help you on your pathway to becoming a specialist.
Whilst this course does not give you the qualifications to make a medical diagnosis, the course is designed to enable you to give the right information and support to families who experience symptoms of colic, reflux and allergies, in order to improve these symptoms.
Families with unsettled babies are often distressed, and wondering how to help settle their baby in a gentle, non-invasive way, and with so much misinformation out there it’s easy to understand why families can be confused and overwhelmed when they have a baby experiencing pain and discomfort.
The course will arm you with enough knowledge and information to give confident and empathetic support to families who are struggling, to help them have a better understanding and hopefully improve their situation.
We understand, and that’s why we have generous payment plans where you can pay in 2 instalments which makes our Online Colic, Reflux & Infant Allergies course really affordable!
Once you successfully make the payment, you will receive a receipt.
Within 5 minutes, you will receive confirmation that you have successfully enrolled on the program. You will be sent a welcome email that includes your login details. Should you need additional assistance, please send us an email at info@babyem.co.uk and we can happily help you.
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Each module (topic) consists of a number of lessons, and most lessons have sub-lessons. After each of the lessons, you will be required to complete short multiple-choice questions. You are required to achieve 80% in each of the lessons to pass, however, you are able to retake those tests. Therefore, if you do not pass, you keep retaking until you do!
In order to receive the OCN accreditation in Colic, Reflux and Infant Allergies, you will need to complete the essay-based assignment.
The assessment details can be accessed on the course platform. You are given 7 weeks to complete the assessment. Each question is approximately 250- 300 words each and relates to the topics covered during the course.
Once completed your work will be marked internally by your assigned course tutor, and then assessed by Open College Network.
If there are any amendments to be made, we let you know by emailing you (or scheduling a call if required) and you are given extra time to make those amendments.
Once your work has been successfully verified, you will receive your certificate through Open College Network. Please note that OCN take approximately 4-6 weeks to verify and submit certificates to us.
You are welcome to complete the course, and not complete the assessment. If you choose to do this, on successful completion of all of the multiple-choice questions you will be given a certificate of achievement (non-accredited).
The quickest way to get your questions answered is to post them in the Facebook group, which is there specifically to support you with course queries and ongoing questions when working with clients.
If you have any other non course-related queries regarding payment, tech, deadlines etc… then please contact the Babyem team and we can happily help you.
Before signing up for this course, you are required to have:
A good level of conversational English. The course is taught in English and assignments must be completed in English.
In order to complete the Colic, Reflux and Infant Allergies course, candidates are required to have the following in place:
INFANT FEEDING SPECIALIST WITH A SPECIALIST INTEREST IN COLIC, REFLUX AND INFANT ALLERGIES
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.
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.
COURSE LEADER SHEL BANKS IBCLC, WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM MAUREEN MINCHIN
“I absolutely loved the colic, reflux and infant allergies course.
It really helped to have that specialist knowledge and it has made me much more confident moving forward working with the families I support. I highly recommend it.”
LUCY WEBBER | IBCLC & Registered Midwife
We offer a 14-day money-back guarantee.
We are so confident in the quality of our training that we know that we are providing you with the best training in the industry, supported by leading experts.
However, we also want you to feel comfortable with your investment – so we offer a 14-day money-back guarantee. If you join and within 14 days and decide the program isn’t right for you, then you can request a full refund and we wish you well for the future.
We are confident that you will love the course and we are very excited at the opportunity to support you and be part of your journey!
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