Leaf Mother & Childcare
Leaf Africa is here to support parents as well as health facilities with the main focus on lactation. Breastfeeding is supposed to be a natural process and often it will go without any issue.
But there are also many reasons why this process might be disrupted and that’s where Leaf comes in, identifying breastfeeding challenges and finding a customized solution for each baby and mother.
Leaf is working under the lead of IBCLC lactation consultants and part of our mission is also to build capacity for our profession in Ghana and across borders in SubSaharan Africa.
In 2019 whilst being a participant of the UNICEF Startup Lab Ghana, the ideas for Leaf Africa started to grow, and along the line, the decision was made to continue as an NGO in Ghana on its own.
Male breastfeeding support is evidenced to influence breastfeeding behaviors. Fathers play a vital role in determining women's choice to breastfeed. Many studies regarding fathers' breastfeeding infl...
What Role Do Fathers’ Cultural Experiences Play in the Decision to Support Breastfeeding?
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits:
1 (
details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 21/09/2022
CERP: 1
R-CERP: 1
Nursing Contact Hour(s): 1
Dietetics CEU: 1
Midwifery CEU: 0.1
American culture values self-sufficiency and celebrates self-sacrifice in the name of success. The idea of community and communal living is fast becoming a thing of the past. Children graduate, go of...
It Takes a Village: Understanding the Role of and Integrating Extended Family in the 4th Trimester.
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits:
1 (
details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 21/09/2022
CERP: 1
R-CERP: 1
Nursing Contact Hour(s): 1
Dietetics CEU: 1
Midwifery CEU: 0.1
The International Code on the Marketing of breast milk substitutes is the very cornerstone of breastfeeding protection, promotion and support, and an integral part of infant and young feeding policie...
What’s New With the International Code on the Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes: It’s Not Just About Formula!
Presentations: 2 |
Hours / CE Credits:
1 (
details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 21/09/2022
CERP: 1
E-CERP: 1
Dietetics CEU: 1
Midwifery CEU: 0.1
Global trends in breastfeeding rates only show modest increases between 2000 and 2015. Currently, about 40% of babies below 6 months are exclusively breastfed and several barriers on the structural, ...
Global Perspectives on the Warm Chain of Support for Breastfeeding
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits:
1 (
details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 21/09/2022
CERP: 1
E-CERP: 1
Nursing Contact Hour(s): 1
Dietetics CEU: 1
Midwifery CEU: 0.1
Providing Culturally Sensitive Care competency is a pressing and relevant topic in today’s multicultural communities. Healthcare workers are increasingly likely to work with persons of diverse back...
Providing Culturally Sensitive Care
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits:
1 (
details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 21/09/2022
CERP: 1
R-CERP: 1
Cultural humility proposes that health care providers engage in a life-long process of self-reflection and learning in order to better understand the multifaceted identities of their clients. The con...
Understanding Cultural Humility for Better Support of Breastfeeding Mothers
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits:
1 (
details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 21/09/2022
CERP: 1
E-CERP: 1
Survival in preterm infants has increased over the last few years, and this has been accompanied by an increasing focus on the importance of nutrition and the effects of preterm birth on later outcom...
Feeding Preterm Babies after Hospital Discharge: Breast-milk, Fortifier, Supplements and Complementary Foods
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits:
1 (
details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 21/09/2022
CERP: 1
L-CERP: 1
A dearth of validated neonatal feeding assessment instruments are available in an era where medical teams are challenged to demonstrate the evidence base of the services that are provided to neonates...
Evidence Based Assessment of Neonatal Feeding
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits:
1 (
details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 21/09/2022
CERP: 1
R-CERP: 1
Critically ill neonates and infants are often unable to maintain adequate nutrition through the enteral route and require parenteral nutrition. Due to their increased nutritional needs, small size, a...
Challenges in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits:
1 (
details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 21/09/2022
CERP: 1
R-CERP: 1
The commonest reason of interrupted exclusive breastfeeding is assumption of insufficient breastmilk. Fenugreek has been traditionally used by Egyptian women to increase milk supplementation. However...
Effect of Fenugreek Supplementation on Breast Milk
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits:
0.5 (
details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 30/08/2022
CERP: .5
L-CERP: .5
Indigenous practices around pregnancy, birth and postpartum have become wildly popular, and some even controversial, from rebozo belly sifting and Bengkung binding to herbal massage oils and vaginal s...
Can Broths and Baths Help the Baby Blues? Where Indigenous Wisdom Meets Functional Medicine
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits:
1 (
details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 8/30/2022
CERP: 1
R-CERP: 1
Nursing Contact Hour(s): 1
Midwifery CEU: 0.1
Poor mental health affects the expectant mothers and father's overall emotional, environmental, social, spiritual and physical well-being, but also impacts unborn, newborn and developing children, par...
Holistic Community Care for Parenthood (HCCP)
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits:
1 (
details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 8/30/2022
CERP: 1
R-CERP: 1
Perinatal common mental disorders (depression and anxiety) are highly prevalent, particularly in socio-economically adverse settings. These disorders are associated with substantial morbidity for moth...
Common Perinatal Mental Disorders: An Approach for the Maternal Health Care Provider
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits:
1 (
details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 8/30/2022
CERP: 1
R-CERP: 1
Our latest understanding of developmental neuroscience is based understanding epigenes. These are influenced by the earliest environment encountered, as the switches make “predictive adaptive respon...
Understanding Resilience: Why a Preterm Needs Its Mother
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits:
1 (
details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 8/30/2022
CERP: 1
R-CERP: 1
The central dogma of all biological processes is based on DNA and genes, how these make proteins and specifically neurons, and how such neurons result in a brain producing behaviours, with the overrid...
Zero Separation of Mother and Newborn: The Science Behind the Concept
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits:
1 (
details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 8/30/2022
CERP: 1
R-CERP: 1
New neuroscience evidence shows how vital it is to put the preterm baby onto mother’s chest. This talk empowers the NICU staff to empower the parents with information and practical skills to best su...
Improving NICU outcomes by Including Parents in Developmental Care
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits:
1 (
details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 8/30/2022
CERP: 1
L-CERP: 1
Breastfeeding programmes that engage fathers are more effective than ones that only involve mothers and professionals. This accords with research that has shown that family is the main influence on br...
How To Enhance Breastfeeding A Lot: Engage Fathers
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits:
1 (
details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 07/07/2022
CERP: 1
L-CERP: 1
Dietetics CEU: 1
Midwifery CEU: 0.1
Classic animal studies have shown that maternal care of rat mothers e.g. licking and grooming and arched back nursing, impacts offspring outcomes such as behavior, development, and stress regulation. ...
Epigenetic Impact of Breastfeeding on Infant Stress Regulation
Presentations: 2 |
Hours / CE Credits:
1 (
details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 09/07/2021
CERP: 1
L-CERP: 1
Midwifery CEU: 0.1