Professional Education in Breastfeeding and Lactation
A Five Day Course
*Can also be taught in two 3-day sessions.
Recommended for:
- Individual who wants basic preparation for becoming a board-certified lactation consultant
- IBCLC requiring CERPS or exam preparation for re-certification
- Maternity or pediatric nurse working with families with small babies
- Obstetrician, midwife, pediatrician or family medicine physician involved with the daily feeding and parenting issues of new families
- Childbirth educator
- Labor and postpartum doula
- WIC clinic staff member
- Facilitator of early parenting education
- Social worker, Early Headstart staff
- La Leche League leader who wants updates and new scientific resources
- Public health nurse or staff person working with new families
- Occupational or respiratory therapist working with breastfeeding newborns
- Registered Dietician working with pregnant women, new mothers and their babies
Course Description
This in-depth course enables participants to provide accurate, current and consistent information about breastfeeding and lactation and support new families in feeding their babies from birth through the process of weaning. Each participant will be given the knowledge to work with other healthcare providers to ensure continuity of care for the breastfeeding mother and her infant(s).
In addition each particpant will:
- practice taking a multiple choice exam in lactation
- present and learn from written projects and oral case studies
- begin preparation for the certification exam to become an IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant)
- receive a certificate of completion at conclusion of course
All areas of the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners exam grid are included, and the course content is based on current scientific research as it applies to "best practice" issues in the clinical setting.
Course Objectives, Agenda, & Content
The Lactation Educator Track is no longer optional. All participants will complete the entire course, including the requirements for the Lactation Educator.
Education Credits for Five-Day Course
In 2007, IBLCE and nursing credentialing organizations calculate CERPs or continuing education credits on a 60 minute hour, rather than the previous 50 minute hour. The following CERPs reflect that change.
- IBLCE 46 total CERPs (44 L CERPs, 2 E CERPs)
- Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing Provider No. CEP 14127 for 46 contact hours
- CDR (Commission on Dietetic Registration) 46 CPE hours, Category II
*The six-day course presented by the Seattle Midwifery School is the same content as the five-day course and provides the same number of education credits.