Jan Tedder

About Jan Tedder

Jan Tedder, nurse practitioner and lactation consultant, developed HUG Your Baby to give birth, lactation and early parenting professionals innovative skills and resources to educate and support today’s new mothers and fathers. Multicultural, inclusive online courses for professional and family-friendly video and handouts for parents facilitate the parent-child relationship, promote breastfeeding duration, and boost parent confidence. E-Newsletters over baby’s first year of life cue parents to how their child’s development impacts family life and the breastfeeding experience. HUG Your Baby is well-received in 20 countries around the world.

Experience

1. Parent Education

   Hug Your Baby

   Jan 2017 — Present · Durham-Chapel Hill, NC

   Midwives know that educating expectant couples is critical for setting parents on the course to safe and confident parenthood. That\'s why they hired Jan to teach their expectant mothers and fathers about breastfeeding and the care of the newborn. Jan focuses on understanding newborn behavior to enhance initiation and continued breastfeeding and how reading a baby\'s signs of overstimulation and newborn states facilitates the developing parent-child relationship. These 2-hour classes have been well-received. One parent reported,\"I feel ready to begin this journey! Now I know what to look for, what to do, and when to ask for help.\"

Education

• University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  BSN

  1969 — 1973

• Harvard University

  Touchpoints

  2005

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  FNP

  1975 — 1976