Classes offered at hospitals

• Early infancy care

Early years are very crucial in a child’s life. Infants are developing rapidly in the first few years and during infancy they are forming a foundation for relationship and trust they will carry on for the rest of their life. Therefore parents and caregivers should be well equipped to respond to the developmental needs of the baby.



• Baby growth and development

Understanding of normal patterns of growth and development would help parents to understand their child better and they would also be prepared to handle the next stage in development. Most parents are aware of the physical development of the baby as it is visible but there are other areas of development such as social, emotion, cognitive, moral and language that are equally important and are linked to each other. Awareness about the holistic growth and development would ensure a good start to your baby’s life.



• Lactation and breast feeding (Getting started)

First time mothers are usually nervous about taking care of the young bay and have various apprehensions about lactation and breastfeeding. They need proper guidance about the process of breastfeeding so that they do it in the correct manner. Mothers often have doubts about the position of feeding, the quantity of breast milk the frequency of feeding and other related things. All these things make a lot of difference to the baby’s growth and development therefore expert advice always helps.



• Meeting challenges of raising premature or twin births

Going through childbirth itself is a new experience for every woman and if it is a premature birth or birth of twins then it comes with an added list of dos and don'ts. In some cases when the woman undergoes C-section delivery then she also has to take extra care of her health. All these experiences can be quite stressful for the mother as well as the family. In such cases they need constant support and advice on handling the child/ children.



• Baby friendly initiatives

... to be updated soon

These classes are conducted for the past two years at:

Divakars Speciality Hospital
# 220, 9th Cross, 2nd Phase
JP Nagar
Bangalore 560078
+91-8051209550

Dr. Rajeev Agarwal
# 553, 8th Main
Koramangala 4th Block
Bangalore 560034