Certified Lactation
Consultant Exam
Questions and Answers
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? -
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 - 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
Consultant Exam
Questions and Answers
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? -
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 - 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
