CLC EXAM TEST BANK AND PRACTICE EXAM 2023
CERTIFIED LACTATION CONSULTANT EXAM QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
The International Code - ANSWER: addresses improper marketing practices
ex hospital giving out discharge packages with formula
Milking Stool- 3 legs - ANSWER: Protect, promote & Support-want all to be equal
Levels of evidence based pyramid - ANSWER: top - bottom: 1.Metanalysis &systemic
reviews 2. Single randomized controlled studies 3. Cohort studies 4. Case Controlled
Studies 5. Case Studies
When is greatest risk of stopping breastfeeding? - ANSWER: 3-7 days (after going
home from hospital)
Top reasons people stop breastfeeding - ANSWER: baby won't latch, breast
pain/soreness, work/school
Russ Labs Marketing Survey - ANSWER: survey 1965-2001 formula company tracking
breastfeeding goals
Races in Order most likely to BF - ANSWER: spanish speaking-hispanic, white,
hispanic, black
Global Strategy for Infant and young feeding - ANSWER: WHO and UNICEF developed
this global strategy to focus world attention on impact of feeding practices on the
nutritional status, growth, development and health and thus the survival of infants
and young children.
World Breastfeeding trends innitive - ANSWER: help track how they are doing on
global outcomes
innocenti ospitale -florence - ANSWER: BF orphan babies increased rate of survival-
today UNICEF child resource nutrition center
path of messages to make milk - ANSWER: message to breast-to nervous system -to
brain- to hormones to travel to breast- then to blood stream
what cells make milk - ANSWER: alveolar cells
alveolar cells are what?
what are they surrounded by - ANSWER: layer of cells with milk inside, surrounded
by myoepitheal cells
Myoepitheal cells will contract when what hits them - ANSWER: oxytocin
, Are the ducts in breast evenly spaced? - ANSWER: No varies woman to woman
How many nipple pores each breast? - ANSWER: 3-5
Milk is ____ &_____ from sebaceous gland - ANSWER: antimicrobial and sticky
what are the two major hormone of lactation? Where are they secreted from? -
ANSWER: oxytocin and prolactin, pituitary gland
Prolactin is the hormone responsible for? - ANSWER: Milk production
What is the passage of prolactin being produced - ANSWER: baby suckles- message
to nervous system tells brain to secrete prolacin in blood- then tranverse into
mother body into milk cells where milk is produced
When doe humans have prolactin in them - ANSWER: all the time (non pregnant,
non lactating breast and nipples increase level of prolactin when touched)
Prolactin levels go _____ in between nursing and _____ during nursing. - ANSWER:
down, rise
_______ nursing leads to lower levels of prolactin and less rise with same amount of
contact. - ANSWER: infrequent
If infants do no have frequent times at breast first few days prolactin will be _____
and sites will ____ be primed and receptor sites will start to ______ _______. -
ANSWER: low, not, start shutting down
What is in receptor site during pregnancy? - ANSWER: Progesterone
When placenta leaves the body, the body responds by pushing ______ out of the
receptor sites? - ANSWER: progesterone
When placenta is pushed out of body, progesterone leaves the receptor sites and
they are open briefly, what goes inside to set site for lactation? - ANSWER: Prolactin
If prolactin is not set during first few hours after birth- - ANSWER: there will be fewer
sites and cause issues with milk supply
Ongoing milk supply is associated with suckling within first ______ hours after birth -
ANSWER: 2
For mothers with preemies initation of milk expression before _______ hours
resulted in significantly more milk by day 7 - ANSWER: one
What hormone T3, T4, T5 - ANSWER: Oxytocin
CERTIFIED LACTATION CONSULTANT EXAM QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
The International Code - ANSWER: addresses improper marketing practices
ex hospital giving out discharge packages with formula
Milking Stool- 3 legs - ANSWER: Protect, promote & Support-want all to be equal
Levels of evidence based pyramid - ANSWER: top - bottom: 1.Metanalysis &systemic
reviews 2. Single randomized controlled studies 3. Cohort studies 4. Case Controlled
Studies 5. Case Studies
When is greatest risk of stopping breastfeeding? - ANSWER: 3-7 days (after going
home from hospital)
Top reasons people stop breastfeeding - ANSWER: baby won't latch, breast
pain/soreness, work/school
Russ Labs Marketing Survey - ANSWER: survey 1965-2001 formula company tracking
breastfeeding goals
Races in Order most likely to BF - ANSWER: spanish speaking-hispanic, white,
hispanic, black
Global Strategy for Infant and young feeding - ANSWER: WHO and UNICEF developed
this global strategy to focus world attention on impact of feeding practices on the
nutritional status, growth, development and health and thus the survival of infants
and young children.
World Breastfeeding trends innitive - ANSWER: help track how they are doing on
global outcomes
innocenti ospitale -florence - ANSWER: BF orphan babies increased rate of survival-
today UNICEF child resource nutrition center
path of messages to make milk - ANSWER: message to breast-to nervous system -to
brain- to hormones to travel to breast- then to blood stream
what cells make milk - ANSWER: alveolar cells
alveolar cells are what?
what are they surrounded by - ANSWER: layer of cells with milk inside, surrounded
by myoepitheal cells
Myoepitheal cells will contract when what hits them - ANSWER: oxytocin
, Are the ducts in breast evenly spaced? - ANSWER: No varies woman to woman
How many nipple pores each breast? - ANSWER: 3-5
Milk is ____ &_____ from sebaceous gland - ANSWER: antimicrobial and sticky
what are the two major hormone of lactation? Where are they secreted from? -
ANSWER: oxytocin and prolactin, pituitary gland
Prolactin is the hormone responsible for? - ANSWER: Milk production
What is the passage of prolactin being produced - ANSWER: baby suckles- message
to nervous system tells brain to secrete prolacin in blood- then tranverse into
mother body into milk cells where milk is produced
When doe humans have prolactin in them - ANSWER: all the time (non pregnant,
non lactating breast and nipples increase level of prolactin when touched)
Prolactin levels go _____ in between nursing and _____ during nursing. - ANSWER:
down, rise
_______ nursing leads to lower levels of prolactin and less rise with same amount of
contact. - ANSWER: infrequent
If infants do no have frequent times at breast first few days prolactin will be _____
and sites will ____ be primed and receptor sites will start to ______ _______. -
ANSWER: low, not, start shutting down
What is in receptor site during pregnancy? - ANSWER: Progesterone
When placenta leaves the body, the body responds by pushing ______ out of the
receptor sites? - ANSWER: progesterone
When placenta is pushed out of body, progesterone leaves the receptor sites and
they are open briefly, what goes inside to set site for lactation? - ANSWER: Prolactin
If prolactin is not set during first few hours after birth- - ANSWER: there will be fewer
sites and cause issues with milk supply
Ongoing milk supply is associated with suckling within first ______ hours after birth -
ANSWER: 2
For mothers with preemies initation of milk expression before _______ hours
resulted in significantly more milk by day 7 - ANSWER: one
What hormone T3, T4, T5 - ANSWER: Oxytocin
