Portland

Course Description
Foundations for Best Practice in Lactation Care: The 5 Day Course, is a complete, in-person, core program to begin practice in evidence-based breastfeeding and lactation care. Participants will be able to provide accurate, current and consistent information about breastfeeding and lactation and be able to support new families in feeding their babies from birth through the process of weaning. Each participant will be given the knowledge to work with other healthcare providers to ensure continuity of care for breastfeeding mothers and infants.
Who Should Attend

Course Description:
Optimum breastfeeding outcomes depend on giving families the skills, confidence and information needed to successfully initiate and continue breastfeeding their babies. Join Cheryl Scott as she shares strategies to improve the health outcomes for mothers and babies by addressing the challenges facing the promotion, protection and support of breastfeeding. This comprehensive day will include the latest information on:

* Late pre-term infant and multiples
* Hyperbilirubinemia
* Hypoglycemia and the diabetic mother
* Sleepy baby
* Sore nipples

What is the CLC course?

This course is designed for health care professionals who want to improve their lactation skills, or for students who want to become lactation consultants. Taking the entire course meets the 90 hour lactation training requirement needed for the IBLCE Lactation Consultant exam in 2012 or later.

Course Description

Applications in Lactation Care is a two-day, in-person, intensive course for sharpening assessment and patient care skills. This practice-oriented workshop is part of a new education plan from Evergreen Perinatal Education.

Professional Education in Breastfeeding and Lactation

This two-day update and half day exam review program will update your research-based practice and help you prepare for the IBLCE exam.

The first two days provide a review of the IBLCE exam blueprint and the research to support this. The half-day covers test-taking strategies, photos and practice exams. The half-day can be taken alone if you have completed a Foundations for Best Practice in Lactation Care 5-day course in the 6 months preceding the course starting date.