How to Support a Breastfeeding Family with a Hospitalized Child
The phone rings. It's a parent whose breastfed toddler has just been admitted to hospital with pneumonia. He's on oxygen, struggling to feed, and the ...
Quick Quiz: What’s New in Lactation?
How up-to-date is your breastfeeding knowledge? Lactation research is evolving faster than ever—and even experienced professionals can miss important updates that shift how we support families.Take this quick quiz to see whether your clinical instinc...
Important Update: Changes to IBLCE Policies for Initial IBCLC Candidate Preparation Courses
At Lactation Education Resources, we’re committed to providing high-quality education that prepares you to become the best lactation consultant you can be. We’re writing today to share important information about changes happening with The Internatio...
Changes to CERP Availability at LER
At Lactation Education Resources, we’re committed to providing high-quality education that prepares you to become the best lactation consultant you can be, while ensuring you get the continuing education you need to meet your goals. We’re writing tod...
Lactation Basics
As a public health nurse, you form a vital connection between new families and the healthcare system. Helping parents with infant feeding is a crucial part of that role—but since preservice training often only skims the surface of breastfeeding, you ...
Breastfeeding and Food Security: The Complex Connection
Both in times of calm and in times of crisis, exclusive breastfeeding equals first food security. Having a safe, reliable source of nutrition and protection against disease protects babies in any circumstance—and especially when there is food insecur...
The IBCLC for Healthcare Providers
If you’re a healthcare professional interested in earning your IBCLC, you’re in good company! More providers are discovering the rewards and opportunities that come with becoming a lactation consultant. When you’re ready to explore becoming an IBCLC,...
Your Go-To Guide
If you're an IBCLC or planning to become one, 2025 brings an important new change! Starting in 2025, the IBCLC Commission requires training on the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (the International Code—more commonly known ...
Holding Space for Trauma
Pregnancy, birth, and new parenthood are high-risk times for people to encounter new trauma — or for past trauma to resurface. Those who work with birthing and lactating families must understand how to recognize the signs of trauma and know how to he...
5 Tips for Conducting Infant Physical Exams
Physically assessing a baby is a critical skill for a lactation care provider to have. Depending on what background experiences brought you to the profession, this may be a familiar role for you — or it may feel very new. Either way, there are a few ...
Do Pharmacists Really Need to Know About Lactation? Yes, and Here’s Why
Pharmacy students study hard in their education programs. By graduation, they’ve mastered a wide range of gritty scientific details and topics that leave lay people shaking their heads – but grateful that the person providing their medication knows t...
Can I Count It? Accruing Clinical Hours for Healthcare Providers
If you're a healthcare professional who is considering becoming an IBCLC, you probably have one big question. How does the work I have already done (o...
To Each Their Own: Individualizing Lactation Care for Multiples
When you come into the world as a multiple, you’re used to sharing. But even if you’re a multiple, some things should be your very own! Among these is...
Successful Starts: How Birth Interventions Impact Breastfeeding Initiation
By now, you probably know that newborns are astonishingly capable when it comes to initiating breastfeeding. Videos of minutes-old babies making their...
Key Connections: The Placenta and Human Milk
Pop quiz: We know you love and respect human milk. But can you name the biological entity that is the most like human milk? If you didn’t say, “The pl...
Digital Distortions: Combatting Online Misinformation, Disinformation, and Myths
It’s past your bedtime, and you know you should stop scrolling social media. But it’s been a long day, and you just want to unwind. The flow of images...
Prepping for the Exam? Don’t Make These 7 Mistakes
If you’re studying for the IBCLC exam, you’ve probably gotten a lot of advice on what to do. Here, we’re going to tell you seven things not to do. In ...
The (R)evolutionary Story of Neohormones and Human Milk
As a lactation professional, you know a lot about human milk—its components, its importance, and how to help parents make and deliver it. But how much...
Mastitis and Lactation
Strategies for Support
You answer the phone and find a distressed client on the line. They’re experiencing pain in their breast, along with redness, heat, and swelling. The ...
The Mentor Match: A Real World Guide To Finding a Lactation Mentor
On the journey to becoming an IBCLC, few things are as helpful as having a mentor. Whether you’re just starting to explore the field, or already know ...
How Can Lactation Consultants Access the COVID Vaccine?
As the COVID vaccine is rolled out across the United States, many lactation consultants employed in hospitals, clinics, health departments, and other ...
10 Things Lactation Consultants Need to Know About Engorgement
Breast engorgement … it’s a common problem, but did you know that it can also be very serious, even leading to loss of milk supply and failed breastfe...
The IBCLC May Be Closer Than You Think!
So many people who are excited about working in the lactation field begin by earning a certification like Certified Lactation Educator, Certified Lact...
How Human Milk “Programs” Babies . . . And Parents!
Epigenetics is a hot topic these days and discussed more and more in the lactation world - but what IS it? Why is it relevant to the perinatal period?...
Think you “can’t” counsel parents with HIV? New resource for providing evidence-informed lactation support.
You get a call from a prenatal client who discloses that she is living with HIV. She asks you whether she can safely breastfeed her baby. Do you know ...
Statement of Solidarity
Image credit NPR Many watched in agony as George Floyd was mercilessly killed at the hands of police last week. He’s one of the most recent in an unto...
Are you ready? Six questions for assessing your community's readiness to provide infant feeding support in emergencies
Is your community ready to support infant and young child feeding in emergencies? The emergence of COVID-19 has shone a light on the need for advance ...
Letter From Vergie
Dear LER community member: As we move into 2020, I want to take this opportunity to catch you up on changes for me, Doug, and the Lactation Education ...
Give parents tools for a marathon not a sprint!
We all know what it takes to support a milk supply and help a baby grow. When creating a care plan for families, we follow the sage advice from ...
More than “you’re doing great”: How to prepare, prime and empower parents in the early days
Now parents are overwhelmed with well-meaning advice from a variety of sources on infant care as well and breastfeeding, before they leave the hospita...
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