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Certified Lactation Consultant ExamQuestions and Answers (Latest Update
2025)
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? -
Correct 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 - Correct
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.. - Correct Answer ✅
Breastfeeding Protection
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Questions and Answers (Latest Update
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Focuses on the interaction of "helpers" with family as well as
program development and implementation - Correct
Answer ✅ Breastfeeding Support
Women how do not breastfeed are at a greater risk for what
diseases? - Correct 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 -
Correct Answer ✅ Unrealistic expectations from society
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Questions and Answers (Latest Update
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about motherhood. Along with lack of preparation for what
the newborn period would be like.
Reason #2 why women do not exclusively breastfeed -
Correct 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 - Correct 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? - Correct Answer ✅ Regulates
the marketing of breast milk substitutes which includes infant
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