Continuing Education for Lactation Consultants
As Lactation Consultants, it’s important for us to stay up to date on the latest research, best practices, and global perspectives. Not only are we empowered with new skills, but we can directly see the impact on our clients breastfeeding outcomes. Providing lactation continuing education since 2007, GOLD Learning is the largest online resource for breastfeeding education professionals. The packages below have been curated through our GOLD Lactation Online Conferences, individual webinars and through partnerships with Lactation Associations and Organizations.
The following online presentations are accredited for Continuing Education Recognition Points (CERPs) and are applicable for recertification towards your International Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLC's), Certified Lactation Educator (CLE) & Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC) credentials. The type of online IBCLC CERPs can be identified by hovering over the "details" link. Lectures will be designated L-CERPs, E-CERPs and R-CERPs. GOLD Learning has been designated as a Long Term Provider of CERPs by the IBLCE - Approval #CLT114-07.
Viewing Time: When purchasing multiple packages at the same time, the viewing time becomes cumulative!
How Did I Miss That?: Breast Assessment and Non-White Skin Tones
In celebration of IBCLC Day 2020, GOLD Learning is thrilled to present this free presentation from one of our most popular speakers, Nekisha Killings MPH, IBCLC. Breast assessment is a crucial clinica...
Nekisha Killings, MPH, IBCLC
Breast Assessment and Non-White Skin Tones
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits: 1 (details) |
Viewing Time: 4 Weeks |
Added: 17/01/2020
CERP: 1
L-CERP: 1
L-CERP: 1
When Breast Isn't Best: Challenges and Opportunities In Breastfeeding for Sexual Abuse Survivors
The benefits of breastfeeding are well known. Less known is how pervasive and long-lasting the effects of sexual abuse can be. As many as 1 in 3 women are survivors of contact sexual abuse. And, unfo...
When Breast Isn't Best: Challenges and Opportunities In Breastfeeding for Sexual Abuse Survivors
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits: 1 (details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 21/11/2019
CERP: 1
L-CERP: 1
Dietetics CEU: 1
L-CERP: 1
Dietetics CEU: 1
GOLD Learning Day 2020 - Breastfeeding and the Substance-Exposed Infant
Infants with prenatal substance exposure require specialized care, and research shows that breastfeeding/human milk is an important part of their recovery. Join us for a special day of educati...
Wendy Jones, PhD, MRPharmS
Pharmacokinetics and Clinical Implications of Drugs in Human Milk: The Substance-Exposed Infant
Amber Valentine Forston, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, IBCLC, CNT
Breastfeeding and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
Kelly McGlothen-Bell, PhD, RN, IBCLC
Empowering Breastfeeding in Women Receiving Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: A Call for Policy Change
Presentations: 3 |
Hours / CE Credits: 3 (details) |
Viewing Time: 6 Weeks |
Added: 01/11/2019
CERP: 3
L-CERP: 3
Nursing Contact Hour(s): 3
Midwifery CEU: 0.3
L-CERP: 3
Nursing Contact Hour(s): 3
Midwifery CEU: 0.3
Managing Back Pain in Labour Using Sterile Water Injections
Up to 30% of women experience severe back pain in labour. In qualitative studies women have described how labour back pain limited their mobility and altered their plans for analgesia use. Injections ...
Nigel Lee, BHlthSci, MMId, PhD
Managing Back Pain in Labour Using Sterile Water Injections
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits: 1 (details) |
Viewing Time: 8 Weeks |
Added: Oct 3, 2019
CERP: 1
R-CERP: 1
MidPLUS Points CPD: 1
ACNM: 1
Midwifery CEU: 0.1
R-CERP: 1
MidPLUS Points CPD: 1
ACNM: 1
Midwifery CEU: 0.1
Watching Our Words: Is Risk-Based Language Always the Right Choice?
Within the lactation world, it is widely accepted that optimizing infant feeding practices and normalize breastfeeding, we must frame breastfeeding as the physiological norm and not breastfeeding as t...
Michelle Pensa Branco, MPH, IBCLC
Watching Our Words: Is Risk-Based Language Always the Right Choice?
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits: 1 (details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 10/03/2019
CERP: 1
L-CERP: 1
L-CERP: 1
Creating Flow: Using Lymphatic Drainage Therapy for Breastfeeding Issues
Surprisingly, lymphatic congestion forms the foundation of some lactation problems like chronic plugged ducts and un-resolving nipple and breast pain. In this cutting-edge presentation, Dr. Hazelbaker...
Alison Hazelbaker, PhD, IBCLC, FILCA, RCST
Creating Flow: Using Lymphatic Drainage Therapy for Breastfeeding Issues
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits: 1 (details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 10/03/2019
CERP: 1
L-CERP: 1
L-CERP: 1
BreastSide Manner: A Patient-Centered Approach to Lactation Support
Warm and empathic bedside manner is a lost art in provider-patient interactions. Be it time constraints, systemic limitations, lack of trust or training, the disconnect is apparent and the consequence...
Nekisha Killings, MPH, IBCLC
BreastSide Manner: A Patient-Centered Approach to Lactation Support
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits: 1 (details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 10/02/2019
CERP: 1
L-CERP: 1
L-CERP: 1
Historical Trauma, Racism and White Privilege: The Barriers to Breastfeeding Success
Too often when discussing barriers to breastfeeding there tends to be a focus on education, poverty, and familial support. However, when we truly look at the causes of health disparities and inequitie...
Camie Jae Goldhammer, MSW, LICSW, IBCLC
Historical Trauma, Racism and White Privilege: The Barriers to Breastfeeding Success
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits: 1 (details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 12/07/2019
CERP: 1
L-CERP: 1
Nursing Contact Hour(s): 1
Dietetics CEU: 1
Midwifery CEU: 0.1
L-CERP: 1
Nursing Contact Hour(s): 1
Dietetics CEU: 1
Midwifery CEU: 0.1
From Lactation Consultant to Human Milk Banking
Romania is one of the European countries with a very low breastfeeding rate. The emergence of IBCLCs in the past 2 decades helped in improving mothers access to lactation professionals. Starting from...
Mihaela Nita, MD, IBCLC
From Lactation Consultant to Human Milk Banking
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits: 0.5 (details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 11/07/2019
CERP: .5
L-CERP: .5
Nursing Contact Hour(s): .5
Midwifery CEU: 0.05
L-CERP: .5
Nursing Contact Hour(s): .5
Midwifery CEU: 0.05
Phenylketonuria and Breastfeeding: Facts, Challenges and Reality
Breast feeding can be challenging in some special situations, phenylketonuria is one of these conditions that requires a lot of knowledge and support.
PKU is an inherited metabolic disorder that ne...
Phenylketonuria and Breastfeeding: Facts, Challenges and Reality
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits: 1 (details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 11/07/2019
CERP: 1
L-CERP: 1
Dietetics CEU: 1
L-CERP: 1
Dietetics CEU: 1
Effect of Fenugreek Supplementation on Breast Milk
The commonest reason of interrupted exclusive breastfeeding is assumption of insufficient breastmilk. Fenugreek has been traditionally used by Egyptian women to increase milk supplementation. However...
Rania Abdou, MD, IBCLC
Effect of Fenugreek Supplementation on Breast Milk
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits: 0.5 (details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 11/07/2019
CERP: .5
L-CERP: .5
L-CERP: .5
Providing Culturally Sensitive Support for Breastfeeding Muslim Families
Lactation professionals can provide invaluable assistance to Muslim families seeking to successfully breastfeed. However, cultural differences and a lack of understanding of Islamic culture could cre...
Tamara Drenttel Brand, MA, MPH, IBCLC
Providing Culturally Sensitive Support for Breastfeeding Muslim Families
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits: 0.5 (details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 11/07/2019
CERP: 0.5
L-CERP: 0.5
L-CERP: 0.5
Scaling Up Skills and Reliability of Breastfeeding Peer Counselors - 7 Years of Malaysian Experience
The roles of peer counselors (PC) in breastfeeding support is important to reach mothers and families in community as they would bridge the gaps within the warm chain of breastfeeding support. However...
Nadrah A. Arifin, MBBS, MPH, IBCLC
Scaling Up Skills and Reliability of Breastfeeding Peer Counselors - 7 Years of Malaysian Experience
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits: 0.5 (details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 11/07/2019
CERP: .5
L-CERP: .5
Nursing Contact Hour(s): 0.5
Midwifery CEU: 0.05
L-CERP: .5
Nursing Contact Hour(s): 0.5
Midwifery CEU: 0.05
Successes and Opportunities for Growth in Baby Friendly Hospital & Baby Tent Initiatives in Haiti: A Literature Review
Background: According to the World Health Organization, suboptimal breastfeeding contributes to 1.45 million deaths in developing countries. Haiti, the first black Republic has had various initiatives...
Marcda Hilaire, BA, MPH, CLC, IBCLC, RLC
Successes and Opportunities for Growth in Baby Friendly Hospital & Baby Tent Initiatives in Haiti: A Literature Review
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits: 0.5 (details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 11/07/2019
CERP: 0.5
L-CERP: 0.5
L-CERP: 0.5
Human Milk: Defense Against Pathogens
When antibiotics were first broadly introduced in the 1930s, they were considered the most important advancement in modern medicine. Deaths attributed to communicable diseases were drastically reduced...
Human Milk: Defense Against Pathogens
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits: 1 (details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 11/07/2019
CERP: 1
L-CERP: 1
Dietetics CEU: 1
L-CERP: 1
Dietetics CEU: 1
The Sharjah Baby-Friendly Campaign: A Community-Based Model For Breastfeeding Promotion, Protection And Support
Despite the recommendations and various initiatives to promote breastfeeding, most women don’t reach the exclusive breastfeeding target in both developed and developing countries. Similar has been t...
Evelyne N. Ruf, MD, Dipl. Fam. Med., IBCLC
The Sharjah Baby-Friendly Campaign: A Community-Based Model for Breastfeeding Promotion, Protection and Support
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits: 1 (details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 11/07/2019
CERP: 1
L-CERP: 1
L-CERP: 1
The Relational Breastfeeding Framework: Time to Apply Theory
The Relational Breastfeeding Framework is a process driven model for clinical breastfeeding supports that is consistent with the origins of the IBCLC profession. Little has been published that theoriz...
Tina Revai, RN, MN, IBCLC
The Relational Breastfeeding Framework: Time to Apply Theory
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits: 1 (details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 11/07/2019
CERP: 1
L-CERP: 1
Dietetics CEU: 1
L-CERP: 1
Dietetics CEU: 1
Weaning: Supporting Families Stopping Lactation and/or Ending Their Breastfeeding/Chestfeeding Relationship
While lactation support spans the time from the prenatal period through weaning, there is less available information about the process of weaning. We know that there are a variety of reasons why famil...
Joy MacTavish, MA, IBCLC, RLC, ICCE
Weaning: Supporting Families Stopping Lactation and/or Ending Their Breastfeeding/Chestfeeding Relationship
Presentations: 1 |
Hours / CE Credits: 1 (details) |
Viewing Time: 2 Weeks |
Added: 11/07/2019
CERP: 1
L-CERP: 1
Dietetics CEU: 1
L-CERP: 1
Dietetics CEU: 1
