CERTIFIED LACTATION COUNSELOR
COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION TEST
2026 VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+
●● 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 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.. Answer: Breastfeeding Protection
●● Focuses on the interaction of "helpers" with family as well as
program development and implementation Answer: Breastfeeding
Support
●● Women how do not breastfeed are at a greater risk for what diseases?
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 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 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
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? 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 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.
●● What contributes to low rates of exclusive breastfeeding globally?
Answer: Caregiver and societal beliefs favoring mixed feedings
(believing that breast milk is not enough or that babies actions/issues are
related to the breast milk/breastfeeding)
Hospital and healthcare practices and policies that are not supportive of
breastfeeding
Lack of adequate skilled support
Aggressive promotion of infant formula and other breast milk substitutes
rather than promoting support for breastfeeding
COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION TEST
2026 VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+
●● 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 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.. Answer: Breastfeeding Protection
●● Focuses on the interaction of "helpers" with family as well as
program development and implementation Answer: Breastfeeding
Support
●● Women how do not breastfeed are at a greater risk for what diseases?
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 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 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
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? 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 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.
●● What contributes to low rates of exclusive breastfeeding globally?
Answer: Caregiver and societal beliefs favoring mixed feedings
(believing that breast milk is not enough or that babies actions/issues are
related to the breast milk/breastfeeding)
Hospital and healthcare practices and policies that are not supportive of
breastfeeding
Lack of adequate skilled support
Aggressive promotion of infant formula and other breast milk substitutes
rather than promoting support for breastfeeding
