Are you looking to become a certified lactation consultant? 
Do you need Nursing Contact Hours, CPEU's or CERPs for recertification? 
Is your facility following Baby-Friendly Hospital protocols? 
Important Notice to Our Students
Good luck to all of our students taking the 2013 IBLCE Exam!
Welcome to our new website. We are transitioning to a new course management system. If you signed up for courses on our old web site, or have been using the "firmwater" system to take our courses, please use the following links to access your courses:
Return to Lactation Consultant Training Program courses
Return to LER Continuing Education courses
All other students, please use the My Courses item in the menu above.
Our Core Values
We believe that every baby deserves breastmilk.
We believe that every mother deserves an empowering breastfeeding experience.
Our students are motivated to help mothers and babies achieve this goal.
Our training programs provide the education and techniques to train aspiring lactation consultants.
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.
What Our Students Are Saying
May I say I am more than impressed with your on line course, great presentations and incredible support. I will highly recommend you to my colleagues.
I just wanted to post to say thank you for the incredibly helpful websites. The women I teach will benefit greatly from the information.
Thanks and hello, Vergie. I hope that you and yours are well and thriving. I always get a flash of pleasure when I think of the classes that I took with you. I hope that you understand the impact that you make on your students, and how much your humanity shines into and inspires your teaching.
I really appreciate all the wonderful resources you provide via links to websites. There is so much information out there, and it helps so much to have some of it vetted by LER. I work in Public Health, so resources in other languages is really valuable. Thanks!
I've just successfully completed the final exam! What a fabulous class! Thanks so much for offering such a convenient and high quality option for obtaining lactation education!
