Three Tips for Doing Virtual Assessments
Lactation professionals are detectives. From the first client contact to the last, your eyes and ears are open for clues. You catch the hints that mig...
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Down to the Wire: Top Tips for Last Minute Exam Prep
Months ago, you decided to sit the IBCLC exam. Now, it’s almost here. Maybe your studying has gone well and you are feeling confident. Maybe life has ...
Practice Made Perfect: LER Launches Cutting Edge Exam Prep Tool
If you’re studying for the IBCLC Exam, you may have taken a practice exam or two. It’s a common way to prepare—and many, many places offer such tests....
Required Reading: Which Book Do I Need for My Course?
If you enrolled in one of LER’s three Lactation Training courses recently, you probably noticed something new. Instead of your reading assignments bei...
Goals 2021: Clinical Hours—Your Questions Answered
Welcome back to Goals 2021, a blog series designed to help you make sure this year finds you closer to being an IBCLC! So far, we’ve talked about maki...
IBLCE Exam Prep: Tips for Photo Questions
Angela Love-Zaranka has been involved in lactation education for many years, and has an insider’s take on the IBCLC exam: in the past, she helped writ...
Prepping for 'The Exam'
Those of you who are sitting for the IBLCE exam for the first time this year, the countdown has begun. There are 76 “study days” left. &nbs...
Baby-Friendly Takes a Team
https://womensmentalhealth.org/posts/baby-friendly-mom-unfriendly/ This article is full of conjecture as opposed evidence, to get people's atten...
Music Milk Miracles
Singing to your baby, or even just listening to soothing music, can make milk miracles! Researchers have found that listening to music while pum...
Core Curriculum 3rd Edition Now Out of Print, Limited Supplies Remain
The Core Curriculum for Lactation Consultant Practice, Third Edition, is now out of print and limited supplies of the existing copies are all that is ...
Did you just take the IBLCE Exam?
We need your Feedback! How did you do on the various topics? If we know the weak spots, we can improve coverage of these areas. Please provide f...
Recombinant Lactoferrin
Lactoferrin is one of the miraculous substances found in breastmilk which helps the infant kill bacteria and fight infection. It is the major wh...
IBLCE Survey
The attached survey comes from International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners to investigate the interest in having a new credential available ...
How much does a lactation consultant make?
Although we do this work because we love what we do and know it makes a difference in the health of mothers and babies we serve, most of us can’t be v...
Not all research is created equal
Breastfeeding prevents allergies. No it doesn’t. Breastfeeding helps prevent obesity. No it doesn’t. Breastfeeding babies have...
Target Has Hit the Bullseye for Breastfeeding Mothers
After years of ousting breastfeeding moms, calling security and generally harassing women who breastfeed in their stores, Target now has a Breastfeedi...
Mother ‘Hood Official Video
I know I am contributing to this video going viral - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me9yrREXOj4. The marketing of infant formula has hit a new m...
Give a Gift to the Next Generation
At this time of year, when we are scrambling around to find the perfect present for everyone on our gift list, let’s remember that breastmilk is the g...
What Would Lactopia Look Like?
Let your imagination go wild! What would the world look like if breastfeeding was ultimately supported? Every mother has breastfeeding education...
All IBCLC staff!
I just got home from the AWHONN conference in Orlando. We heard speakers talk about their plans to have an all IBCLC staff on their maternity un...
