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2021 Annual Membership Meeting

Join the USLCA Board and Staff in our Annual Membership Meeting as we welcome our newest board members, Lauren Reyes and Kim Welvaert, acknowledge our award recipients, and share highlights from the last year and goals for the future. This year's Annual Membership...

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IBCLC® Day 2021

USLCA is excited to celebrate IBCLC Day 2021 with you! As a token of our appreciation for the hard work of IBCLCs all around the world, we are offering a free webinar and a virtual workshop raffle.  In addition to these opportunities, we are excited to reopen the...

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2021 Member Vote

USLCA is excited to announce the candidates for our two open board member positions.  In accordance with the USLCA bylaws, board members will be elected by a ballot vote of the membership, by a majority of ballots returned. Each candidate needs a majority acceptance...

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Vaccination for Lactation Care Providers

The United States Lactation Consultant Association (USLCA) strongly advocates for lactation care providers to be treated as essential healthcare providers in the allocation of the COVID-19 vaccine.   Lactation care is an essential public health service that should not...

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Giving Tuesday 2020

We know you have many choices when donating on Giving Tuesday. A donation to USLCA is a way to give back to your colleagues and a donation to the advancement of your profession. Many of our programs are donor funded and rely on your generosity. Read more about a few...

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Introducing Amplify!

Who has something to say about human lactation, lactation care, and our profession? Well, it turns out that A LOT OF US DO. We do love to chat about these things, don’t we? We like to debate, to discuss, to turn things over and over to find the important bits. ...

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Board Nominations Open

The USLCA Board of Directors is now accepting nominations for a board seat beginning spring 2021.  Nominations will be accepted through November 30, 2020 for installment at the 2021 Annual Membership Meeting. Qualifications include: Current IBCLC USLCA member in good...

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Clinical Lactation 11-3: A statement from USLCA

It has been brought to our attention that the Volume 11, Issue 3 Clinical Lactation highlights a cover photo showing a baby being fed with a bottle which the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes would classify as “idealizing bottle-feeding”. It is...

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Inclusivity Depends on You

In honor of National Breastfeeding Month, USLCA is launching a campaign to highlight the efforts to make the lactation profession a more inclusive space.  Unified as Lactation Care Providers, we invite IBCLCs, CLCs, CLEs, CBEs, LLLL, Peer Counselors, and every other...

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Lactation work during the COVID-19 pandemic

We look forward to the opportunity to compile stories of how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lactation profession in an effort to inform how we serve our members in the future. All stories will remain anonymous. [wufoo username="uslca" formhash="mg6kahd1b2sa6t"...

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