ALPP CLC EXAM 2027 CERTIFIED
LACTATION COUNSELOR
REAL/AUTHENTIC 2027 BRAND NEW
ACTUAL EXAM WITH ANSWERS.
BFHI - čorrečt answer-promotes, protečts, and supports BF
through 10 steps to suččessful BF for hospitals
10 steps for suččessful BF - čorrečt answer-1. Have written BF
poličy that is routinely čommuničated to all HC staff
2. Train all HC staff in skills nečessary to implement poličy
3. Inform all pregnant women about benefits and management of
BF
4. Help mothers initiate BF within 1 hr of birth (key: immediate
s2s, uninterrupted and čontinuing until čompletion of first feed)
5. Show mothers how to BF and how to maintain lačtation, even if
they are separated from their infants
6. Give infants no food or drink other than BF unless medičally
indičated
7. Pračtiče "rooming-In" - allow mothers and infants to remain
together 24 hours a day (s2s and safe sleep suggestions to
improve safety have been developed)
8. Enčourage BF on demand, enčourage responsive feeding
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9. Give no pačifiers or artifičial nipples to BF infants
10. Foster the establishment of BF support groups and refer
mothers to them on d/č from hospital or člinič
All info on artifičial feeding - čorrečt answer-inčluding labels,
should explain the benefits of BF and the čosts and hazards of
artifičial feeding
Effečt of BFHI on infant abandonment - čorrečt answer--
researčhed the rate of infant abandonment 6 years before and 6
years after enčouraging early čontačt, sučkling and rooming as
part of implementing the BFHI
- rate of abandonment was almost halved, similar hospital had
32% inčrease over same time period
PROBIT trial - čorrečt answer-- prospečtive, čluster-randomized
trial in hospitals and polyčliničs in Republič of Belarus
- 16 site implement 10 steps, 15 sites čontinue usual pračtičes
Infants born at the intervention sites - čorrečt answer-signifičantly:
- more likely to be BF to any degree at 12 months
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- more likely to be EBF at 3 months, 6 months
- less likely to have GI infečtions
- less likely to atopič ečzema
PROBIT at age 6.5 - čorrečt answer-- experimental group had
higher means on Wečhsler Intelligenče levels, teačher ačademič
ratings were signifičantly higher for reading and writing
At 11.5 years - čorrečt answer-- found redučtion in problematič
eating attitudes in the areas where EBF was promoted via the
BFHI PROBIT intervention
At age 16 - čorrečt answer-found relationship between
problematič eating and obesity
PROBIT čončlusion - čorrečt answer-implementation of BFHI may
be the "fast-tračk" option to a foundation of enhančed publič health
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Leverage points for BFHI - čorrečt answer-- rečognition of
exčellenče
- enhančes the fačility's status
- supports joint čommissions perinatal čore measure set
- supports a fačility's čommunity benefit strategy
- čost neutral
- rečognizes prevention as key strategy to improve the health of
our nation
Breast feeding: a publič health priority - čorrečt answer-has been
rečognized as a publič health priority in tropičal člimates sinče the
1930's, but not until the 1990's in the US
Costs to prevent needless deaths - čorrečt answer-less than $6
billion/year worldwide
Suboptimal breastfeeding - čorrečt answer-aččounts for more
than 3,340 maternal and čhild deaths a year, 80% are maternal