Making choices is seldom easy. I hear this all the time. Women tell me about the choices they’ve made — or they let others make…
Wouldn’t it be grand if you could successfully influence mothers, bosses, friends, and everyone you know to promote, support, and protect breastfeeding? What if I…
A career-critical exam differs greatly from an end-of-semester exam. One major difference is that a licensure or certification exam seeks to determine if you are minimally…
Most certification or licensure exams, including the IBLCE Exam, use a multiple-choice format. Before taking a multiple-choice exam, everyone needs to develop some test-taking savvy.…
You want to do it. You really do. But no matter how often you tell yourself you’re going to take (and rock) the next step…
Ah, yes. You know you need to start studying sometime, but how soon is “sometime”? You’re feeling fearful that if you start too soon, you’ll…
At this time of the year, I hear from so many of you who have taken one of my courses, and successfully passed the IBLCE™…
You risk not passing the exam When people call me and say they’ve failed the lactation consultant exam, the first thing I ask is, “Did…
Recently, one of the staff here at Breastfeeding Outlook asked why I named our scholarship after a man, and, specifically, why I named it after…
Whether I’m talking with a friend or a colleague about how we counsel new mothers about breastfeeding, it often happens. They stop me, midway, to ask: “Yes, breast is best.…