Comprehensive Professional Education in Breastfeeding and Lactation

Graduate with more than 90 hours for IBLCE exam eligibility

Evergreen Perinatal Education provides breastfeeding and lactation education. Our education programs meet the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE) education requirements for exam eligibility to become an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC). As IBLCE strives to ensure the safety for new families who receive care from an IBCLC, the exam requirements have changed and have become more comprehensive over the years. Starting in 2012, IBLCE now requires 90 hours of lactation specific education within 5 years of taking the exam.

Evergreen Perinatal Education has embraced these changes and looks forward to providing this education in a creative, stimulating, and enlightening way. As such, we are excited to announce that we are adding an e-learning lactation education component. In addition, we have also revised and expanded our face to face, live programs in order to preserve our education philosophy (hyperlink) as we it is challenging to share this philosophy with students through web-based education alone. We think we have found the perfect combination and balance for all your lactation education needs.

Below are specifics of the 90 required hours of lactation education:

1. Foundations for Best Practice in Lactation Care (37.5 hours)
   The course formerly known as Professional Education in Breastfeeding and Lactation, spend five, invigorating days in a face-to-face, classroom setting and begin your journey in evidence-based breastfeeding and lactation care.
2. Enhanced Education in Lactation Care (more than 37.5 hours)
   Customize your education needs with web-based, interactive, on-line modules which build upon Foundations for Best Practice in Lactation Care, or other similar course.
3. Clinical Applications in Lactation Care (15 hours)
   Return to the classroom for a two-day face-to-face, practice-oriented intensive program. Clinical Applications provides a summary of your didactic education and clinical experience, focusing on case studies and the critical thinking required for those who are working with infant and child feeding issues. Clinical Applications can be your final step in preparation for the IBLCE exam, or it can be an opportunity for you to collaborate with other experienced clinicians and problem solve on complex case studies.
4. Advanced Lactation Update (12 hours) and IBLCE Exam Review (3.75 hours)
   Hone your skills and knowledge as you prepare to take the IBLCE exam.

Please visit our Available Programs for detailed information about all of our programs as well as view our Calendar for training dates and locations that meet your needs.