Newborn and Postpartum Care Training: Online or In-Home

February 23, 2022

Newborn Care Classes for Parents and Caregivers

Let Mommy Sleep offers evidence-based newborn care education for expecting parents, new families and professional caregivers. Whether you want hands-on support in your home before baby arrives or a self-paced online certificate, you now have more options than ever to learn newborn and postpartum care.

For Parents: Baby Basics In Home Class- $100 per hour

Evidence-based baby care education and postpartum support that happens in your home. You can schedule a class before or after baby arrives, and you can have as many family members and caregivers attend as you like. Classes are taught by the Night Nurses (RN) and Certified Night Nannies of Let Mommy Sleep.

What you’ll learn:

• Breast & bottle feeding, safety, minimizing SIDS risk, diapering, bathing, soothing and getting your infant on an appropriate schedule
• Nurses perform postpartum mental and physical health assessments
• We’ll teach you all the how-to’s: how to diaper, swaddle, burp, feed and more

What’s included after class: 

Ongoing virtual support by phone, text and email. For example, if you have sleep questions when baby is 4 months old, you can always reach out.

Schedule a Baby Basics class

For Parents and Night Doulas: Newborn & Postpartum Care Online – $349

Our virtual Newborn Care Academy is available on Teachable.com and while it’s required for all Let Mommy Sleep caregivers, all classes are available to the parents and newborn care specialists. It’s been vetted and updated by Nurses and Pediatricians and uses only primary sources. These classes are the online version of what we teach in the classroom to nanny agencies, Certified Nursing Assistants and home health aides, so they’re appropriate for professional postpartum doulas and night nannies. Once you successfully complete the class, you’ll receive a signed certificate.

For parents, the newborn and postpartum care virtual classes are particularly helpful as they contain videos and opportunities for further study. The information is also permanently available across all devices, so you can refer back to the material even after class is finished.

We cover these main topics in the virtual class:

• Safe Sleep and Minimizing SIDS risk
• early feeding
• how-to videos on swaddling, diaper changes, burping
• post-birth care and mental health
• and much more

For Parents: Online Sleep Training Class

Our night nanny services always includes gentle sleep training when baby is old enough if parents wish. However, if you’d like to learn about sleep training more in-depth, we have a free sleep training class for you:

The main topics include:

• Step by Step Instructions to Sleeping Through the Night
• Age Appropriate Sleep Schedules
• Troubleshooting Infant Sleep 
• Safe Sleep and Minimizing the Risk of SIDS

For Professional Caregivers: NAPS Night Doula Certificate

If you’re a postpartum doula, newborn care specialist or night nanny looking for a nationally recognized credential, the NAPS Night Doula Certificate goes beyond class completion to include background check verification, CPR certification and listing on the public NAPS Registry. Learn about the NAPS Registry.