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…
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…
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…
For years, I’ve felt silly directing breastfeeding mothers that according to expert opinions, that they should not take their baby into their bed with them…
People often ask “I haven’t had any clinical experience. Is it too early to take the Lactation Education Course?” The truth is, there’s no simple…