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Communication Course

LER has designed a five-hour, lactation-specific bundle specifically to meet your needs.

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Featured Course

Use of LARC Methods During Lactation

As a lactation professional, you will field questions from clients about using Long Acting Reversible Contraceptive Methods (LARC) while breast/chestfeeding. Are you prepared to answer with confidence? This class equips you with accurate, research-based information on the advantages and risks of LARC during lactation, as well as alternative methods. Your instructor, Board Certified Ambulatory Care Pharmacist, Certified Breastfeeding Specialist, and doula Leslie Southard, has spent her career focusing on medication use during pregnancy and lactation. In her signature clear, engaging style, Southard covers hormonal IUDs, non-hormonal IUDs, hormonal implants, and hormonal injections.

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LARC Methods: Five Reasons & Four Risks

How much do you know about LARC – Long Acting Reversible Contraceptive methods? You are likely to field questions about them from your clients: Which ones are safe during lactation? Will they impact milk supply? What are the risks? Below, we share five reasons LARC can be a great choice for lactating families, as well as four potential unintended consequences you’ll want to know about before you counsel clients. This info is drawn from our course “Use of LARC Methods During Lactation,” where you’ll find much more–learners explore all the types of LARC, how they work, their use during lactation (including impact on milk supply), and more. Five Reasons to Choose LARC LARC methods include hormonal IUDs, non-hormonal IUDs, hormonal implants, an...

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Hydrogels, Dressings, and Creams … Oh My!

Well-meaning friends tuck them into baby shower gift bags. Online new-parent forums are filled with advice about which ones work best. And by the time you see a client with nipple pain, they’re probably already using one. Nipple creams and gel dressings – they come in countless forms and formulas, over-the-counter to prescription, pharmaceutical to herbal, traditional to new technology. Unfortunately, misinformation about their use is just as common. And misuse can be worse than ineffective–it can actually make pain worse, lead to infection, or delay identification of the underlying problem. Below, we’ll discuss the Do’s and Don’ts of recommending nipple creams and gels, based on the most current scientific evidence. Let’s start with the Do...

Guest Blog: Why Did I Become an LC?

We know you all have great stories about your experiences being or working toward becoming a lactation consultant. Now we've created a forum for you to share your stories with others. We invite you to write a maximum 100-word essay on who or what influenced you and what experiences encouraged you to enter the rewarding field of lactation consulting.

here to submit your essay, we can't wait to hear all about it!

How to Choose a Lactation Course

There are important considerations when choosing an educational institution. Here is a series of questions to help you choose a quality course. http://www.lactationtraining.com/questions-to-ask

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