Certified Lactation Consultant Exam
questions and answers 2025\2026 A+
Grade
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?
- correct 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
- correct 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..
- correct answer Breastfeeding Protection
Focuses on the interaction of "helpers" with family as well as program development and
implementation
- correct answer Breastfeeding Support
Women how do not breastfeed are at a greater risk for what diseases?
- correct 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
- correct 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
- correct 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 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
- correct 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?
- correct 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
- correct 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 governments,
international organizations, and other concerned parties.
questions and answers 2025\2026 A+
Grade
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?
- correct 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
- correct 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..
- correct answer Breastfeeding Protection
Focuses on the interaction of "helpers" with family as well as program development and
implementation
- correct answer Breastfeeding Support
Women how do not breastfeed are at a greater risk for what diseases?
- correct 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
- correct 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
- correct 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 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
- correct 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?
- correct 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
- correct 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 governments,
international organizations, and other concerned parties.
