Are you looking to become a certified lactation consultant? 
Do you need Nursing Contact Hours or CERPs recertification? 
Is your facility following Baby-Friendly Hosptial protocols? 
About Lactation Education Resources
Lactation Education Resources provides comprehensive online lactation consultant training for those who wish to become eligible for IBCLC certification. We are dedicated to providing high quality online lactation management training and innovative educational materials for professionals and for new parents online and onsite.
If you are wondering, “how do I become a certified lactation consultant” or you need L-CERPs for IBLCE recertification, we have training programs to meet your needs. Our IBCLC training is taught by more than 20 experienced instructors in a webcast format. Our courses follow the IBLCE exam blueprint. View our Where to Start information for more details.
Our program director is Vergie Hughes RN, MS, IBCLC, FILCA. She has been a lactation consultant for over 25 years, has served on the IBLCE Board of Directors and exam writing committee and has taught classes for both professionals and parents. She has worked in a variety of settings including labor and delivery, post-partum, hospital breastfeeding centers, private practice and milk bank as a clinician, researcher and teacher. She started the first Lactation Consultant Training Program on the East Coast in 1990. To learn more about us, click here.
Is Monitoring Exclusive Breastfeeding a Problem?
A commentary published in Pediatrics calls into question the monitoring of the rate of exclusive breastfeeding which is one of the measures in the Perinatal Care Core Measure Set of the Joint Commission. The commentary, highly criticized by breastfeeding supporters, can be found at http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/127/6/1177/reply#pediatrics_el_51406 in addition to the numerous responses from professional organizations.
More details about Perinatal Core Measures can be found on the Joint Commission website: http://manual.jointcommission.org/releases/TJC2011A/
The United States Breastfeeding Committee (USBC) has published a very helpful summary of a teleconference “Understanding the Joint Commission’s Perinatal Care Core Measure Set: A Toolkit for Hospitals in Your State."
Additional help in understanding the Core Measure can be found at Implementing the Joint Commission Perinatal Care Core Measure on Exclusive Breast Milk Feeding on the USBC website.
