Step Up

This course is specially designed for individuals who have become certified through a 45-hour breastfeeding course.

To earn all 90 hours for IBCLC exam eligibility, you can earn the remaining 45 hours with our online Step Up course. This course will reinforce and expand your current knowledge and skills to situations where more pathologic, complex, and technological factors threaten initiation and continuation of breastfeeding.

Taught by internationally-recognized author and breastfeeding expert, Marie Biancuzzo, this course will help you to:

  • tackle topics that you might not have even realized are on the IBCLC exam.
  • learn at your own pace with videos and on-the-go audiocasts.
  • acquire a blend of evidence-based academic knowledge and real-life clinical skills.
  • enjoy your learning experience—Marie has a unique way of breaking down complex topics into easy-to-learn concepts that will help you to pass the exam now, and practice as an IBCLC for a lifetime!

In a little more than one hour each evening, you can finish this course in about one month. Print out your own certificate from home! Register now!

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Faculty   Target Audience/Eligibility   Goals & Objectives   Content Highlights   Methods   Evaluation   Credits & Expiration   Course Policies   Pricing

Target Audience/Eligibility

Individuals who have already completed a 45-hour lactation-focused education course and earned a certification and now want to fulfill the 90-hour requirement to sit for the IBCLC exam.

Goals & Objectives

The goal of this course is to help already-certified individuals reinforce and expand previously acquired knowledge and skills to promote, protect and support breastfeeding when more pathologic, complex, and technological factors threaten initiation and continuation of breastfeeding. The objectives of this course are:

  • Apply previously-acquired communication, teaching, counseling, advocacy, and problem-solving skills to more complex, team-oriented and global situations.
  • Recognize, analyze, and problem-solve conditions where anatomical and physiological variations of normal, abnormal, and pathology threaten the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding.  
  • Develop an individualized plan of care where contemporary medical, environmental and technological advances impact breastfeeding and lactation.
  • Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of the research process, terminology, methods, and end-user meaning of scientific studies.

Content Highlights

  • Analgesia & Anesthesia
  • Drugs: Social, Recreational, Addictions
  • Environmental Toxins and Breastfeeding
  • Herbals and Galactogogues
  • HIV and Breastfeeding
  • Inborn Errors of Metabolism
  • Lactation Suppressants
  • Lactose and the Breastfed Infant
  • Mastitis
  • Nutrient Deficiencies
  • Pacifiers: Benefits & Risks of Pacifier Use for the Breastfed Baby
  • Plugged Ducts and Related Issues
  • Postpartum Depression
  • Protecting, Promoting, and Supporting Breastfeeding
  • Public Policy: WHO's Major Efforts
  • Sore Nipples
  • Twins and Higher-Order Multiples
  • WHO Growth Charts

Methods

  • Online videos and audiocasts
  • Paper-and-pencil exercises
  • Independent reading
  • Use of case scenarios
  • Other

Evaluation

Post-Test

Faculty

Marie Biancuzzo, RN MS CCL IBCLC
Education Director
Breastfeeding Outlook

Credits & Program Expiration

This program for 45.0 L-CERPs has been approved by Breastfeeding Outlook (Provider # CLT108-22) which is accredited as a long-term provider by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners.

This program provides 45.0 instructional hours in topics on the IBLCE Detailed Content Outline, and has been approved by Breastfeeding Outlook (Provider # CLT108-22) which is accredited as a long-term provider by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 15628, for 20.0 contact hours, accepted in all states in the United States.

This course expires one year from the date of purchase. You must complete the course by the expiration date to earn credits. Program expiration dates can be extended at the discretion of Breastfeeding Outlook.

Course Policies

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Pricing

The regular price for this course is $525.

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