Certified Lactation Consultant Exam

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