CLC Exam,, Questions with Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: How much would it cost to scale up BF efforts to prevent diarrheal illness
Answer: 6 billion a year worldwide
Question 2: Maternal Benefits of breastfeeding
Answer: decreases risk of: -HTN -DM -high cholesterol -CV disease -ovarian and endometrial cancer
Question 3: 3 Strategies to increasing bf
Answer: 1. Protection 2. Promotion 3. Support
Question 4: Promotion
Answer: Focuses on bf advantages: personally, community wide, country wide, globally
Question 5: Protection
Answer: workplace laws bf in public The International Code
Question 6: Support
Answer: healthcare workers community resources (ex. La Leche) WIC CradleMe
Question 7: Top causes of child death <5 years old
Answer: Pneumonia Diarrhea (prevented by BF and complementary feeding at 6 months of age)
Question 8: Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding
Answer: 1. Written breastfeeding policy 2. Train all healthcare staff in the skills necessary to implement this
policy 3. Inform all pregnant women about the benefits and management of breastfeeding 4. Help mothers
initiate bf within 30 min of birth 5. Show them how to maintain lactation even if separated from infants 6.
Give NB infants no food or drink other than breast milk, unless medically indicated 7. Rooming in 24 hours
a day 8. Encourage bf on demand 9. Give no pacifiers or artificial nipples 10. Community support groups
for bf
Question 9: Central step to initiating BF
Answer: skin to skin for 1 hour
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, Question 10: Why is breastfeeding so difficult?
Answer: 1. Unrealistic expectations 2. Lack of timely interventions 3. Misunderstanding about why Mom's
stop breastfeeding
Question 11: Greatest risk to stopping bf
Answer: Not intervening with Mom's problems on day 3-7
Question 12: Fastest drop off
Answer: 10 days post discharge
Question 13: Reasons Mom's quit bf
Answer: Worrying about milk supply Latching issues Breast pain / soreness Return to work / school
Question 14: Weight gain expectations
Answer: No >7% weight loss from birth No weight loss after 5-6 days Back to birth weight by day 12-14
days
Question 15: Stool
Answer: 4 on 4 until one month of age 6 wet diapers
Question 16: Breastfeeding disparities
Answer: hospitals in minority neighborhoods do less to promote nursing
Question 17: Breastfeeding targets
Answer: increasing the proportion of employers with worksite lactation programs reduce the percentage of
bf infants who receive formula before 2 days of age
Question 18: Cells that make milk
Answer: alveolar
Question 19: Surrounds the alveolar cells and squeezes milk out of pocket and into the ducts (smooth
muscle)
Answer: myoepithelial cells
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Question 1: How much would it cost to scale up BF efforts to prevent diarrheal illness
Answer: 6 billion a year worldwide
Question 2: Maternal Benefits of breastfeeding
Answer: decreases risk of: -HTN -DM -high cholesterol -CV disease -ovarian and endometrial cancer
Question 3: 3 Strategies to increasing bf
Answer: 1. Protection 2. Promotion 3. Support
Question 4: Promotion
Answer: Focuses on bf advantages: personally, community wide, country wide, globally
Question 5: Protection
Answer: workplace laws bf in public The International Code
Question 6: Support
Answer: healthcare workers community resources (ex. La Leche) WIC CradleMe
Question 7: Top causes of child death <5 years old
Answer: Pneumonia Diarrhea (prevented by BF and complementary feeding at 6 months of age)
Question 8: Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding
Answer: 1. Written breastfeeding policy 2. Train all healthcare staff in the skills necessary to implement this
policy 3. Inform all pregnant women about the benefits and management of breastfeeding 4. Help mothers
initiate bf within 30 min of birth 5. Show them how to maintain lactation even if separated from infants 6.
Give NB infants no food or drink other than breast milk, unless medically indicated 7. Rooming in 24 hours
a day 8. Encourage bf on demand 9. Give no pacifiers or artificial nipples 10. Community support groups
for bf
Question 9: Central step to initiating BF
Answer: skin to skin for 1 hour
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, Question 10: Why is breastfeeding so difficult?
Answer: 1. Unrealistic expectations 2. Lack of timely interventions 3. Misunderstanding about why Mom's
stop breastfeeding
Question 11: Greatest risk to stopping bf
Answer: Not intervening with Mom's problems on day 3-7
Question 12: Fastest drop off
Answer: 10 days post discharge
Question 13: Reasons Mom's quit bf
Answer: Worrying about milk supply Latching issues Breast pain / soreness Return to work / school
Question 14: Weight gain expectations
Answer: No >7% weight loss from birth No weight loss after 5-6 days Back to birth weight by day 12-14
days
Question 15: Stool
Answer: 4 on 4 until one month of age 6 wet diapers
Question 16: Breastfeeding disparities
Answer: hospitals in minority neighborhoods do less to promote nursing
Question 17: Breastfeeding targets
Answer: increasing the proportion of employers with worksite lactation programs reduce the percentage of
bf infants who receive formula before 2 days of age
Question 18: Cells that make milk
Answer: alveolar
Question 19: Surrounds the alveolar cells and squeezes milk out of pocket and into the ducts (smooth
muscle)
Answer: myoepithelial cells
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