Part 1 CCLS Pre-work

Earn your Clinical and Communication Lactation Specialist credential. The full 95 hour program meets the lactation education requirements for the IBCLC exam or recertification, and is also useful for other perinatal and health care providers.

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Course curriculum

1. Hello and Welcome!
2. Meet Our Staff!
3. Ojectives for CCLS Group Training Part 1
1. Lesson 1.1: Resources for Scientific Evidence in Support of Breastfeeding
2. Assignment 1.1: Research of Breastfeeding Benefits (estimated time: 1.5 hours)
3. Assignment 1.2: Who is Glad You are Breastfeeding? (est time: .5 hour)
1. Who's Who? A look at lactation support in the US (USLCA)
2. Lesson 2.1: Who's Who in Breastfeeding Support (Estimated time: .5 hour)
3. The Landscape of Breastfeeding Support
4. Lesson 2.2: US and International Breastfeeding-Related Organizations
5. Assignment 2.1: Who's Who in Breastfeeding Support (est time: .75 hours)
6. Assignment 2.2: Local Lactation Helpers (est time: 2.25 hours)
7. Lesson 2.3: Michigan 2020 Breastfeeding Report Card
1. Lesson 3.1: Introduction to Communication Skills and Motivational Interviewing (15 min)
2. Lesson 3.2: OARS Motivational Interviewing (25 min)
3. Lesson 3.3: More OARS (20 min)
4. Lesson 3.4: Other Elements of MI (20 min)
5. Lesson 3.5: More MI Resources (est time: .5 hour)
6. Lesson 3.6: MI Cheat Sheet Basics
7. Lesson 3.7: OARS Cheat Sheet
8. Lesson 3.8: MI Cheat Sheets Ways to Say "Good job!"
9. Lesson 3.9: MI Cheat Sheet Phrases to Demonstrate Active Listening
10. Assignment 3.1: Practicing OARS (est time: 30 minutes)
11. Assignment 3.2: MI Case study (est time: 2 hours)
1. Lesson 4.1: Implicit Biases in Breastfeeding (est time: 1 hour)
2. Assignment 4.1: Implicit Biases (est time: 1 hour)
1. No pre-work for this module!
1. No pre-work for this module!
1. Lesson 7.1: Birth and Immediate Postpartum Interventions (20 min)
2. Notes for Birthing Interventions Power Point
3. Instructions for Lessons 2-10 (40 min)
4. Lesson 7.2 Birth in the Hospital
5. Lesson 7.3: Another hospital birth
6. Lesson 7.4: Cesarean Section Birth
7. Lesson 7.5: "Gentle Cesarean"
8. Lesson 7.6: Another "Gentle Cesarean"
9. Lesson 7.7: A Gentle Cesarean
10. Lesson 7.8: A Natural Birth
11. Lesson 7.9: Immediate Postpartum
12. Lesson 7.10: Another Immediate Postpartum
13. Assignment 7.1: Birthing and Immediate Postpartum Interventions (est time: 1.25 hour)
1. Lesson 8.1: General Maternal Assessment (15 min)
2. Lesson 8.2: Maternal Anatomy (15 min)
3. Notes on Maternal Assessment
4. Assignment 8.1: Maternal Assessment (est time: 1 hour)
1. Note on Module 9 Videos
2. Lesson 9.1: Infant Assessment Part 1 (20 min)
3. Infant Breathing 1 to accompany Presentation 1
4. Infant Breathing 2 to accompany Presentation 1
5. Lesson 9.2: Infant Assessment Part 2 (25 min)
6. Infant Breathing to accompany Presentation 2
7. Notes for Infant Assessment
8. Assignment 9.1: Infant Assessment (est time: .75 hour)
1. Instructions for Module 10 Lessons (45 min)
2. Lesson 10.1: General information
3. Lesson 10.1.1
4. Lesson 10.2: Global Health Media- Self Attachment
5. Lesson 10.3: Global Health Media- Breastfeeding Attachment
6. Lesson 10.4: Essential Parenting- Breastfeeding Attachment Video
7. Lesson 10.5: Breastfeeding Center of Ann Arbor Latching
8. Lesson 10.6: Baby Gooroo- Signs of a Good Latch
9. Lesson 10.7: DIY Breastfeeding- Helping with a Painful Latch
10. Lesson 10.8: Latching Babies The Sandwich Hold
11. Assignment 10.1: Latching Babies (est time: .5 hour)
12. Lesson 10.10: Supplementation Information - Podcasts (30 min)
13. Lesson 10.11: Supplementation and Kittens (est time: 15 min)
14. Lesson 10.12: When and how should you supplement? (est time: 10 min)
15. Assignment 10.2: Supplementation (est time: 1 hour)
1. Lesson 11.1: Low Breastmilk Production (est time: 1 hour)
2. Assignment 11.1: Low Breastmilk Production (est time: 1 hour)
1. Assignment 12.1: Breastfeeding Pain Symptoms, Causes, and Possible Solutions (est time: 2.5 hours)
2. Assignment 12.2: Breastfeeding Pain Mis-information (est time: 1 hour)
1. Lesson 13.1: Milk Sharing (est time: 15 min)
2. Lesson 13.2: Milk Sharing (15 min)
3. Lesson 13.3: For-Profit Human Milk Banks (10 min)
4. Lesson 13.4: Non-Profit Human Milk Banks (15 min)
5. Lesson 13.5: Human Milk Resources
6. Assignment 13.1: Human Milk (est time: 1 hour)

Student Reviews

An incredibly thorough, interactive, foundational course!

Veronica Rapin

I truly learned so much in this course! I took this class virtually and Barbara and Jessica really did a fantastic job keeping this course engaging, interact...

I truly learned so much in this course! I took this class virtually and Barbara and Jessica really did a fantastic job keeping this course engaging, interactive, and interesting via zoom. I was very impressed! I'm someone who took this class as a starting point on my journey toward becoming an IBCLC and found this course to be so foundational and FULL of the information and tools to set me up well to begin supporting breastfeeding women. I believe I will draw from what I learned in this course for my entire career in lactation consulting. I highly recommend!

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Breastfeeding Center Part:1 CCLS

Jessica Gutierrez

Although Covid-19 may have transformed the traditional presentation of the course, I have to say that the course set-up, presentation, and interaction were b...

Although Covid-19 may have transformed the traditional presentation of the course, I have to say that the course set-up, presentation, and interaction were both comfortable and informative. I am looking forward to Part 2.

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