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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? Answer:
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 Answer:
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.. Answer: Breastfeeding Protection
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Focuses on the interaction of "helpers" with family as well as
program development and implementation Answer: Breastfeeding
Support
Women how do not breastfeed are at a greater risk for what
diseases? Answer: 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 Answer:
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 Answer: 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
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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
Answer: 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? Answer: 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 Answer: 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
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Certified Lactation Consultant Exam
Questions with Correct Answers | Updated
(100% Correct Answers)
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? Answer:
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 Answer:
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.. Answer: Breastfeeding Protection
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Focuses on the interaction of "helpers" with family as well as
program development and implementation Answer: Breastfeeding
Support
Women how do not breastfeed are at a greater risk for what
diseases? Answer: 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 Answer:
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 Answer: 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
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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
Answer: 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? Answer: 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 Answer: 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
© 2025 All rights reserved
