03162 - Infant Nutrition (BO)

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Midwifery (cod. 9201)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the module the student has acquired skills relating to child nutrition and, specifically, the practice and promotion of breastfeeding and nutrition in children with special needs.

Course contents

  • Nutrition in the early stages of life
  • Presentation of guidelines on child nutrition
  • Breast milk substitutes
  • The Code Violated 2021
  • From breastfeeding to complementary feeding
  • Food offering: when, how much and which foods?
  • Safe cuts and pediatric obstruction maneuvers
  • Vegetarian/vegan diet
  • Accompany the end of breastfeeding
  • Breastfeeding in children with special needs

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons

Role-playing

Group discussions

Assessment methods

Oral exam

Office hours

See the website of Concetta Brattoli