CERTIFIED LACTATION CONSULTANT STUDY EXAM
2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Relactation - ✔✔The process of reestablishing adequate milk production in a parent
who has greatly reduced milk production or who has stopped breastfeeding.
✔✔Reverse Cycle Nursing - ✔✔Description of a feeding pattern of more frequent
nursing during night time than during daytime.
✔✔Rooting Reflex - ✔✔An infants instinctual tendency, when touched on the cheek, to
turn toward the touch, open the mouth, and search for the nipple.
✔✔SGA - ✔✔Small for gestational age.
✔✔Sheehan's Syndrome - ✔✔Damage to the pituitary gland (caused by postpartum
hemorrhage), resulting in the inability to produce pituitary hormone, including prolactin.
✔✔SIDS - ✔✔Sudden infant death syndrome. Crib death.
✔✔SNS - ✔✔Acronym for "supplemental nursing system", a type of at-breast
supplementer.
✔✔Submucosal Cleft - ✔✔An opening in the bone above the roof of the pallet that is
covered with normal skin lining and is therefore more difficult to identify.
✔✔Supplementary Feeding - ✔✔The giving of food other than breastmilk to an infant to
replace breast milk calories.
✔✔Tandem Nursing - ✔✔Nursing two or more children not of the same pregnancy. For
example, a newborn and a toddler.
✔✔Thrush - ✔✔Infection caused by the yeast Candida Albicans that the baby may
contract through the birth canal. It may produce white patches and ulcers in the babies
mouth. Flaky, itchy white patches on the mother's nipples. The baby may then transmit
the oral infection to the mother's breasts.
✔✔Tongue Tie - ✔✔Restriction of the tongue caused by a short or tight membrane
(frenulum) of the skin under the tongue.
✔✔Lip Tie - ✔✔Restriction of the lips typically caused by a short or tight membrane that
attaches the lip to the gum.
✔✔Torticollis - ✔✔Wryneck; contraction of the cervical neck muscles, producing torsion
of the neck. Causing restricted ability to move the head.
, ✔✔Theca Lutein Cyst - ✔✔Benign growth in the ovaries.
✔✔UNICEF - ✔✔United Nations Children's Fund
✔✔Vasospasm - ✔✔Constriction of the blood vessels by tightening of the muscles
around them, typically causing reduced blood flow through the generalized area.
✔✔Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW) - ✔✔Weighing less than <1,500 grams. (3.3lbs)
✔✔Whey - ✔✔A protein fraction of milk that is predominant in human milk.
✔✔WHO - ✔✔World Health Organization
✔✔WIC - ✔✔A special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children,
sponsored by state and federal funding.
✔✔World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Healthy People Objective Encourage
exclusive breastfeeding for how many months? - ✔✔The first 6 months.
✔✔Some professional organizations suggest how much (IUs) supplementation of
vitamin D daily in EBF infants? - ✔✔400 IUs
✔✔Babies diagnosed with this disorder may not breast-feed or receive your mothers
expressed milk. They must be fed a special formula. This is the only absolute infinite
contradiction to breastfeeding (AAP 2012): - ✔✔Galactosemia
✔✔Babies diagnosed with this disorder may be partially breastfed, but also must
receive a special formula. The amount of breast-feeding allowable will be determined by
monitoring the infants blood levels: - ✔✔Phenylketonuria (PKU)
✔✔The Joint Commision (2015) Describes feeding a baby with only human milk as: -
✔✔Exclusive breastmilk feeding (EBMF)
✔✔Closer examination of the reasons why women stop breast-feeding before meeting
their personal goal points to the following: - ✔✔Concerns about milk quality/quantity,
feeding problems during the first week, problems with infant latching on or sucking, and
lack of appropriate information and/or support.
✔✔What is a very late feeding signal? - ✔✔Crying. A crying babies mouth is not a
gaping mouth.
2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Relactation - ✔✔The process of reestablishing adequate milk production in a parent
who has greatly reduced milk production or who has stopped breastfeeding.
✔✔Reverse Cycle Nursing - ✔✔Description of a feeding pattern of more frequent
nursing during night time than during daytime.
✔✔Rooting Reflex - ✔✔An infants instinctual tendency, when touched on the cheek, to
turn toward the touch, open the mouth, and search for the nipple.
✔✔SGA - ✔✔Small for gestational age.
✔✔Sheehan's Syndrome - ✔✔Damage to the pituitary gland (caused by postpartum
hemorrhage), resulting in the inability to produce pituitary hormone, including prolactin.
✔✔SIDS - ✔✔Sudden infant death syndrome. Crib death.
✔✔SNS - ✔✔Acronym for "supplemental nursing system", a type of at-breast
supplementer.
✔✔Submucosal Cleft - ✔✔An opening in the bone above the roof of the pallet that is
covered with normal skin lining and is therefore more difficult to identify.
✔✔Supplementary Feeding - ✔✔The giving of food other than breastmilk to an infant to
replace breast milk calories.
✔✔Tandem Nursing - ✔✔Nursing two or more children not of the same pregnancy. For
example, a newborn and a toddler.
✔✔Thrush - ✔✔Infection caused by the yeast Candida Albicans that the baby may
contract through the birth canal. It may produce white patches and ulcers in the babies
mouth. Flaky, itchy white patches on the mother's nipples. The baby may then transmit
the oral infection to the mother's breasts.
✔✔Tongue Tie - ✔✔Restriction of the tongue caused by a short or tight membrane
(frenulum) of the skin under the tongue.
✔✔Lip Tie - ✔✔Restriction of the lips typically caused by a short or tight membrane that
attaches the lip to the gum.
✔✔Torticollis - ✔✔Wryneck; contraction of the cervical neck muscles, producing torsion
of the neck. Causing restricted ability to move the head.
, ✔✔Theca Lutein Cyst - ✔✔Benign growth in the ovaries.
✔✔UNICEF - ✔✔United Nations Children's Fund
✔✔Vasospasm - ✔✔Constriction of the blood vessels by tightening of the muscles
around them, typically causing reduced blood flow through the generalized area.
✔✔Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW) - ✔✔Weighing less than <1,500 grams. (3.3lbs)
✔✔Whey - ✔✔A protein fraction of milk that is predominant in human milk.
✔✔WHO - ✔✔World Health Organization
✔✔WIC - ✔✔A special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children,
sponsored by state and federal funding.
✔✔World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Healthy People Objective Encourage
exclusive breastfeeding for how many months? - ✔✔The first 6 months.
✔✔Some professional organizations suggest how much (IUs) supplementation of
vitamin D daily in EBF infants? - ✔✔400 IUs
✔✔Babies diagnosed with this disorder may not breast-feed or receive your mothers
expressed milk. They must be fed a special formula. This is the only absolute infinite
contradiction to breastfeeding (AAP 2012): - ✔✔Galactosemia
✔✔Babies diagnosed with this disorder may be partially breastfed, but also must
receive a special formula. The amount of breast-feeding allowable will be determined by
monitoring the infants blood levels: - ✔✔Phenylketonuria (PKU)
✔✔The Joint Commision (2015) Describes feeding a baby with only human milk as: -
✔✔Exclusive breastmilk feeding (EBMF)
✔✔Closer examination of the reasons why women stop breast-feeding before meeting
their personal goal points to the following: - ✔✔Concerns about milk quality/quantity,
feeding problems during the first week, problems with infant latching on or sucking, and
lack of appropriate information and/or support.
✔✔What is a very late feeding signal? - ✔✔Crying. A crying babies mouth is not a
gaping mouth.
