Free tool · For perinatal professionals
Infant Feeding Teaching Planner
Plan a feeding session for expectant or new parents: physiology, early expectations, positioning and latch, cues, paced bottle-feeding, challenges and milk storage. The planner times it, scripts each topic, and prints a handout that carries the CDC’s storage table when you cover storage.
- Free
- No signup or email
- Works right on this page
- Nothing you enter is sent anywhere; saving is your choice
Parent education, not a feeding plan. Feeding and storage facts are quoted from the AAP and the CDC; nothing here is a prescription for a particular baby. Refer to a lactation consultant or the pediatrician as your setting requires.
Planning the session
Feeding conversations happen in prenatal classes, at the bedside and in early postpartum visits. Choose 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5 or 3 hours and the topics that matter for this family; the planner keeps an opening and a teach-back close and shares the rest by how much each topic usually needs.
Topics and order
The topics follow the course’s learning list: foundations of breastfeeding physiology; early expectations and normal newborn feeding patterns; positioning and latch support; establishing feeding rhythms and cues; paced bottle-feeding; and common challenges with professional guidance, plus expressed milk and storage. The expectations script quotes the AAP’s description for breastfed newborns (nursing at least 8 to 12 times every 24 hours; by 5 to 7 days, 6 or more wet diapers a day) and the AAP’s advice to schedule the first checkup no more than 48 hours after discharge. The challenges topic ends with who to call for what: the pediatrician, a lactation consultant, or the parent’s own provider.
The parent handout
The handout prints on its own page, one block per topic you covered. When you include storage, it carries the CDC’s human milk storage table exactly as published, from “up to 4 hours” on the countertop to “never refreeze human milk after it has been thawed,” with the source named and dated.
About the CEU class
This planner is free and is not the CEU course. Breastfeeding/Infant Feeding for Perinatal Professionals is a separate, self-paced virtual course; its page says that upon successful completion you may apply for 3 Nursing CEUs, and that a comprehensive digital workbook is included.
Adapting the session to your setting
Prenatally, the physiology, early expectations and positioning topics prepare families for the first days. After birth, latch, cues and when to ask for help usually matter most, and storage becomes relevant once a parent is expressing milk or returning to work. Pick the topics that match where the family is, keep the session short enough to finish with teach-back, and print the handout so the storage table and the who-to-call list go home with them.
Questions people ask
Is this the CEU course?
No. It is a free planner. The course is separate; its page says you may apply for 3 Nursing CEUs upon successful completion.
Where does the storage table come from?
The CDC’s human milk storage guidelines, quoted as published and dated on the page.
Does the planner give feeding volumes?
No. It quotes the AAP’s published description of early feeding patterns and never prescribes amounts or schedules for a particular baby.
Sources
- American Academy of Pediatrics, HealthyChildren.org. How to Tell if Your Breastfed Baby is Getting Enough Milk. Last updated January 13, 2025. Checked October 9, 2026.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Storage and Preparation of Breast Milk (PDF handout; storage table adapted from the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine protocol for full-term infants). PDF last modified January 2025. Checked October 9, 2026.
- Birth & Baby University. The Breastfeeding/Infant Feeding for Perinatal Professionals information page (linked above). Checked October 9, 2026.