Certified Lactation Consultant Exam & Certified Lactation Course Exam New with complete solutions

Certified Lactation Consultant Exam & Certified Lactation Course Exam New with complete solutions

Certified Lactation Consultant Exam

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The World Health Organization and UNICEF have set out three strategies needed for increasing

breastfeeding initiation and duration in every country. What are the 3 strategies? - ✔✔-Breastfeeding

Promotion

Breastfeeding Protection

Breastfeeding Support

Focuses on advantages of breastfeeding on a personal (personal connection), community, country

(amount spent on healthcare), or global level (waste from formula & formula products)

Focuses on the good "advantages" of breastfeeding - ✔✔-Breastfeeding Promotion

Focuses on government, manufacturer, and social responsibility to assure breast feeding's ability to

compete with commercial interests.

Includes addressing improper marketing practices

Addressing breastfeeding in public, at work, jury duty, family law, mothers in prison, etc.. - ✔✔-

Breastfeeding Protection

Focuses on the interaction of "helpers" with family as well as program development and

implementation - ✔✔-Breastfeeding Support

Women how do not breastfeed are at a greater risk for what diseases? - ✔✔-Myocardial infarction

Metabolic syndrome

Coronary artery disease

Stroke

DMII

HTN

Hyperlipidemia

Cardiovascular disease

Breast, endometrial, and ovarian cancer

Reason #1 why women do not exclusively breastfeed - ✔✔-Unrealistic expectations from society about

motherhood. Along with lack of preparation for what the newborn period would be like.

Reason #2 why women do not exclusively breastfeed - ✔✔-Lack of timely interventions. Mother's

problems at 3-7 days posed the greatest risk for stopping which is when they are home from the

hospital and alone with no support. The fastest drop-off is in the first 10 days following discharge from

the hospital

The International Code of Marketing of Breast milk Substitutions - ✔✔-An international health policy

framework to regulate the marketing of breast milk substitutes in order to protect breastfeeding. It was

written in response to the marketing activities of the infant feeding industry which were promoting

formula feeding over breastfeeding, which in turn was leading to a dramatic increase in maternal and

infant morbidity and mortality.

What does "The Code" do? - ✔✔-Regulates the marketing of breast milk substitutes which includes

infant formulas and any other food or drink, together with feeding bottles, and teats, intended for

babies and young children. Sets standards for the labeling and quality of products and for how the law

should be implemented and monitored within countries. Aims to make sure that parental choices on

feeding are based on full, impartial information, rather than misleading, inaccurate or biased marketing

claims.

The Global Strategy for Infant & Young Child Feeding - ✔✔-Is intended as a guide for action; it identifies

interventions with a proven positive impact, it emphasizes providing mothers and families the support

they need to carry out their crucial roles, and it explicitly defines the obligations and responsibilities in

this regard of governments, international organizations, and other concerned parties.

What contributes to low rates of exclusive breastfeeding globally? - ✔✔-Caregiver and societal beliefs

favoring mixed feedings (believing that breast milk is not enough or that babies actions/issues are

related to the breast milk/breastfeeding)

Hospital and healthcare practices and policies that are not supportive of breastfeeding

Lack of adequate skilled support