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CLC Exam Prep Guide is your complete resource for preparing to become a Certified Lactation Counselor. This guide covers all essential lactation counselor certification topics, offering step‑by‑step CLC exam preparation, practical study tips, and proven test‑taking strategies. With focused CLC study guides, multiple‑choice practice questions, and clear explanations, it helps you master key concepts efficiently and confidently. Whether you’re starting your CLC exam prep or doing a final review, this guide makes learning organized, effective, and stress‑free — so you can walk into exam day ready to succeed.

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CLC Certification Study Guide.


Babies who receive breastmilk and other liquids (e.g. water,
minerals, vitamins, oral meds).




1. Predominant
Breast- feeding

2. Breastfeeding Baby receives human milk, as well as other foods or fluids, including
formula.

3. Complementar Child is between 6-23 months receiving both human milk and solid
y Feeding or semi solid foods.
4. 3 strategies for Promotion, Protection, Support
in- creasing BF
initiation and
duration

5. Promotion Focuses on advantages of BF on a personal, community, country, or
global
level. BF to the community.

6. Protection Focuses on government, manufacturer, and social responsibility to
assure
BF ability to compete with commercial interests.
Includes state, local, an national laws regarding BF.

7. International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk


, CLC Certification Study Guide.

Subsi- tutes Addresses improper marketing practices by formula companies. It is
not currently a law in the US.
8. What does the
Inter-


Distributing free formula
national Code Prohib- Giving coupons for formula
it?

9. What did the AAP res- No distributing formula, discharge bags, industry written
handouts.
olution state in re-
gards to the
Interna- tional
Code?






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10. Support Focuses on interaction of helpers with family, as well as program
develop-
ment and implementation.

11. 10 steps to successful 1. Written BF policy. Skin to Skin immediately after birth.
BF 2. Train healthcare statt
3. Inform pregnant women about benefits and management of
4. Help all mothers initiate BF within 1 hour after birth
5. Show mother's how to BF and maintain lactation
6. Exclusive breast milk only
7. Practice rooming in 24 hours a day
8. Encourage BF on demand
9. No artificial teats or pacifiers
10. Establishment of BF support groups
12. Healthcare staff
1. Training
re- sponsibility for
2. Minimum of 20 hours of training
work- ing with
lactat- 3. 3 hours of competency verification
ing mothers include
what?

13. What are the indi- 1. Medical condition
cations for 2. Parents request after being informed of consequences
providing
supplementation
oth- er than
breast milk? Baby's weight x 2.5 (2.7 or 3.0 if Baby needs to catch up weight) = daily

14. Protocol for
calculat-
ing Baby's daily needs ounces. PCP decides what the multiplier is!!!

15. What should be days after birth by PCP?
as- sessed 3-5


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H ation (elimination patterns) Body
y weight (no more than 7% loss)
d Observe Feeding
r Maternal or infant issues

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