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…
In the first part of this series, I focused on the need to plan a multifaceted approach to communicating the new breastfeeding policy you developed…
In this post, I’ll focus on how to get your staff to participate in your breastfeeding policy, while in the first part of this series,…
The first of the “Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding,” the lynchpin of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, reads: “Have a written breastfeeding policy that is routinely…
If you’ve read this blog before, you may recognize this post as one that ran in April 2016. A server problem in December 2016 caused…