IBCLC Recertification by CERPs (or exam) Made Simple Updated 6-10-25 We, Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC, FILCA and Barbara Robertson, MA, IBCLC, have been busy bees again! Our goal is to try to provide effective, easy solutions to your lactation education needs by offering special IBCLC recertification courses. Lately, a lot has changed for recertifying IBCLCs. Do …
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Want More Breastmilk Later? Tell Your Body You Want It From the Beginning
From Barbara: Want more breastmilk later? Tell your body you want it from the beginning? What do I mean by this? Biologically, it makes no sense that people who get pregnant and give birth struggle with breastmilk production. Literally this would be a bad design from nature and nature is an amazing architect. The normal …
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To Pump More Milk, Use Hands-On Pumping
From Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC, FILCA Would you like an effective method for pumping more milk? Until 2009, most of us assumed that when a mother used a breast pump, the pump should do all of the milk-removal work. But this changed when Jane Morton and her colleagues published a ground-breaking study in the Journal of Perinatology.The mothers in …
Myth or Fact: Never Wake a Sleeping Baby?
Nancy and Barbara hope to make your job easier by crafting evidence-based answers to commonly asked questions (like this post), which you have our permission to share. It offers information both you and nursing parents may want or need, and ways to express it that you may find helpful in your clinical setting. From Nancy: …
Increasing milk? A Blog and A Podcast!
Increasing milk? From Barbara: As an IBCLC, one of the most common reasons parents come to see me is that they are worried about their rate of milk production. They feel they need to work on increasing their rate of milk production. Notice my terminology: RATE of milk production. All parents can usually make some …
Should All Breastfed Babies Have Above Average Weight Gains?
Nancy and Barbara hope to make your job easier by crafting evidence-based answers to commonly asked questions (like this post), which you have our permission to share. It offers information both you and nursing parents may want or need, and ways to express it that you may find helpful in your clinical setting. From Nancy: …
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The Partner and the Nursing Baby
Nancy and Barbara hope to make your job easier by crafting evidence-based answers to commonly asked questions (like this post), which you have our permission to share. It offers information both you and nursing parents may want or need, and ways to express it that you may find helpful in your clinical setting. From Nancy: …
Is Your Formerly Nursing Baby Refusing to Breastfeed?
Nancy and Barbara hope to make your job easier by crafting evidence-based answers to commonly asked questions (like this post), which you have our permission to share. It offers information both you and nursing parents may want or need, and ways to express it that you may find helpful in your clinical setting. From Nancy: …
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Why Do Milk Storage Guidelines Differ?
Nancy and Barbara hope to make your job easier by crafting evidence-based answers to commonly asked questions (like this post), which you have our permission to share. It offers information both you and nursing parents may want or need, and ways to express it that you may find helpful in your clinical setting. From Nancy: …
How Much Milk Should You Expect to Pump?
From Nancy: How Much Milk Should You Expect to Pump? Do you ever have parents second-guess their milk production after pumping? Do they compare it with the volume of milk their friend or neighbor pumps? Do they compare it with the milk they pumped for a previous baby? Before they start to worry, they …