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…
If you’ve taken my advice and looked over the IBLCE’s Detailed Content Outline for the IBLCE exam, you may have noticed the category of “Public…
When I wrote about the mistakes people make on exam items, I mentioned qualifiers. These are words that alter a statement’s meaning. In a multiple-choice…
If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times: “It costs too much to go Baby-Friendly!” Well, it’s true that going Baby-Friendly doesn’t happen for…
Of the hundreds of questions I’ve fielded in my years as a IBCLC exam prep instructor, this is probably the one I have heard most…
I’ve been asked — and answered — many, many questions about the IBLCE Exam. Here are my responses to the top ten questions I am…