“We’re planning to submit our hospital’s breastfeeding policy to Baby-Friendly USA,” I often hear. “If they don’t like it, they’ll help us fix it, right?”…
Going Pathway 3? If so, you’ll need to grapple with some hard questions on your Pathway 3 plan to become an IBCLC. I’ve heard dozens of…
In 1993, I started helping people attain their IBCLCTM certification. Over the years, many course attendees have asked me: I’m not a nurse, and I…
Lactation consultants often feel that they will be looked down upon because they lack those “initials after their name.” This is especially true of especially…
At Breastfeeding Outlook, we get many calls from hospital staff members asking for help with their hospital breastfeeding policy. How many hospital breastfeeding policies have I…
Seldom do good causes make me cringe. This one had me not only cringing, but even drawing back and shrinking down in my pew. When…
Undertaking the process of becoming a Baby-Friendly facility can cause a case of nerves at the best of times. But in the case of any number of…
If you are planning to take the IBCLC® exam for the first time, you should know that you are required to have 14 health sciences courses…
What can you say when the mother insists she “has nothing” to feed her baby? Caught off-guard by the small quantities of colostrum her body…
Put away “shoulda woulda coulda”-type thinking Ok, maybe you didn’t recognize that the child in the photo of question #64 was 18 months old, and…