Lactation Consultant Training

Class Schedule

This program operates under an ongoing monthly schedule. Participants may join at any month and will participate for twelve months. Please note: Most months will include a live consult between an IBCLC and nursing couple for observation.

• Weight gain problems
• Devices and equipment
• International Initiatives
• Working for WIC

• Research and statistics
• The older nursing child
• Weaning, grief, fertility
• Beauty and the breast
• The age of weaning
• Advocacy
• Formula industry, multinational corporation ethics

• Requirements to become an IBCLC
• Physiology of lactation
• Anatomy of the breast
• Anatomy of infant suck, assessing infant sucking

• Health risks in babies who do not receive their own mother milk
• Empowering the mother through assessing a feeding session
• Problems of the lactating breast
• Overproduction of milk

• Observing, assisting and evaluating a breastfeeding
• What to do to help a mother with a non-latching baby
• Ineffective breastfeeding
• Positioning for latch
• Expressing and storing human milk
• Hand expression of milk

• Sore nipples
• Work and breastfeeding
• Insufficient milk supply
• Obesity and breastfeeding
• Normal developmental milestones

• Working in a hospital
• Communication skills

• Nutrition during lactation
• Allergies and the breastfed baby
• Biochemistry of human milk and immunology
• Artificial baby milks

• Ethics
• Legal issues
• Setting up a private practice

• Communication skills

• Donor human milk banking
• Kangaroo care
• Premature and late premature babies and breastfeeding
• Multiples

• Induced lactation and relactation
• Medications and breastfeeding
• Labor and its impact on breastfeeding
• Hyperbilirubinemia and hypoglycemia

Please read the list of Frequently Asked Questions and the Required Reading for more information.