LACTATION COUNSELOR TRAINING
EXAM 2024/2025
Breastfeeding has been recognized as a health priority in tropical
climates since_________ - Precise Answer ✔✔1930s
In 2015 ______ deaths occured in the neonatal period (according to Liu)
- Precise Answer ✔✔2.7 million
According to research women who do not breastfeed are at a
(higher/lower) risk for myocardial infarction and aspects of metabolic
syndrome - Precise Answer ✔✔Higher
According to research, women who do not breastfeed are at a greater
risk for __________, _______________, and _________________
cancers - Precise Answer ✔✔Breast, ovarian, endometrial
What are the three strategies for breastfeeding from the WHO? - Precise
Answer ✔✔Promotion, Protection, Support
According to research studies, the fastest drop off in breastfeeding
happened in the first ______days after leaving the hospital. - Precise
Answer ✔✔10
,Mothers have been found to stop feeding in the first weeks mostly
because of __________________. - Precise Answer ✔✔They are not
making enough milk or perceive they are not making enough milk.
Previously, the data we had on breastfeeding rates came from the
__________________, but in the 1990s, the _____ started to collect
data. - Precise Answer ✔✔formula companies/ CDC
In the US, the first "goals of the nation" were developed in___________
for___________ - Precise Answer ✔✔1979 for 1990
In the 1980s, BFing rates in the US were___________at the end of the
decade - Precise Answer ✔✔the same
According to studies by McKinney and colelagues, the mean duration of
breastfeeding in black families is more than __________(more/less) than
for white families. - Precise Answer ✔✔10 weeks less
According to the CDC< what is one reason there is such a disparity in
white and BLack breastfeeding rates? - Precise Answer ✔✔Hospitals in
primarily Black neighborhoods do less to promote nursing than in areas
with more white residents.
What is one target from the Healthy People 2020 goals that were not met
by August of 2019 according to reports? - Precise Answer ✔✔To reduce
the percentage of breastfed newborns that receive breast milk within the
first 2 days of life.
, What does the Global Strategies for Infant and Young Child Feeding
emphasize providing parents? - Precise Answer ✔✔the support they
need to follow through and carry out their crucial role!
Messages from the breast travel through the______________ system to
the _________. Then hormones travel to the__________ through the
____________. - Precise Answer ✔✔nervous/brain/breast/blood stream
From more recent research we now know that there are ______ nipple
pores functioning per feeding - Precise Answer ✔✔3-5
Which hormones are found in the pituitary gland? - Precise Answer
✔✔Oxytocin & prolactin
Only new mothers have prolactin (true/false) - Precise Answer
✔✔FALSE
As frequency of feeding decreases, prolactin levels ______________. -
Precise Answer ✔✔Decrease
Oxytocin is released by__________________ - Precise Answer
✔✔conditioned response, nipple stretching, baby hand massage
Mammal milk is _____________ for every species - Precise Answer
✔✔different
EXAM 2024/2025
Breastfeeding has been recognized as a health priority in tropical
climates since_________ - Precise Answer ✔✔1930s
In 2015 ______ deaths occured in the neonatal period (according to Liu)
- Precise Answer ✔✔2.7 million
According to research women who do not breastfeed are at a
(higher/lower) risk for myocardial infarction and aspects of metabolic
syndrome - Precise Answer ✔✔Higher
According to research, women who do not breastfeed are at a greater
risk for __________, _______________, and _________________
cancers - Precise Answer ✔✔Breast, ovarian, endometrial
What are the three strategies for breastfeeding from the WHO? - Precise
Answer ✔✔Promotion, Protection, Support
According to research studies, the fastest drop off in breastfeeding
happened in the first ______days after leaving the hospital. - Precise
Answer ✔✔10
,Mothers have been found to stop feeding in the first weeks mostly
because of __________________. - Precise Answer ✔✔They are not
making enough milk or perceive they are not making enough milk.
Previously, the data we had on breastfeeding rates came from the
__________________, but in the 1990s, the _____ started to collect
data. - Precise Answer ✔✔formula companies/ CDC
In the US, the first "goals of the nation" were developed in___________
for___________ - Precise Answer ✔✔1979 for 1990
In the 1980s, BFing rates in the US were___________at the end of the
decade - Precise Answer ✔✔the same
According to studies by McKinney and colelagues, the mean duration of
breastfeeding in black families is more than __________(more/less) than
for white families. - Precise Answer ✔✔10 weeks less
According to the CDC< what is one reason there is such a disparity in
white and BLack breastfeeding rates? - Precise Answer ✔✔Hospitals in
primarily Black neighborhoods do less to promote nursing than in areas
with more white residents.
What is one target from the Healthy People 2020 goals that were not met
by August of 2019 according to reports? - Precise Answer ✔✔To reduce
the percentage of breastfed newborns that receive breast milk within the
first 2 days of life.
, What does the Global Strategies for Infant and Young Child Feeding
emphasize providing parents? - Precise Answer ✔✔the support they
need to follow through and carry out their crucial role!
Messages from the breast travel through the______________ system to
the _________. Then hormones travel to the__________ through the
____________. - Precise Answer ✔✔nervous/brain/breast/blood stream
From more recent research we now know that there are ______ nipple
pores functioning per feeding - Precise Answer ✔✔3-5
Which hormones are found in the pituitary gland? - Precise Answer
✔✔Oxytocin & prolactin
Only new mothers have prolactin (true/false) - Precise Answer
✔✔FALSE
As frequency of feeding decreases, prolactin levels ______________. -
Precise Answer ✔✔Decrease
Oxytocin is released by__________________ - Precise Answer
✔✔conditioned response, nipple stretching, baby hand massage
Mammal milk is _____________ for every species - Precise Answer
✔✔different
