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Lactation Care Provider Survey

Lactation Care Provider Survey

Please help us in collecting as much data as possible to provide a wide representation by filling out the below form and sharing it within your own networks.

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Awards Nominations

Awards Nominations

Nominate yourself or a colleague by April 15, 2019! Now is the time to nominate yourself or a colleague to be recognized for outstanding contributions in our field. IBCLCs are doing great work every day and USLCA values the opportunity to highlight this devotion....

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Providing Additional Clarity

To those who have taken the time to email, call, or post regarding yesterday’s announcement of our new Guiding Principles, thank you.  The breadth of responses and engagement is exciting and we are grateful for the dialogue.  We are also saddened by some of the...

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USLCA Adopts New Organizational Guiding Principles

USLCA Adopts New Organizational Guiding Principles

Monday, Feb. 18, 2019 – The United States Lactation Consultant Association (USLCA) has adopted new organizational guiding principles. The development of this new foundational profile, that includes USLCA’s Mission, Vision and Values, follows a year of organizational...

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Comment to HP2030

The USLCA submitted the following comment regarding the updated HP2030 objectives: The decision to eliminate all but one of the breastfeeding objectives from HP2020 is a surprising departure and raises concern for public health. Lactating parents and their infants...

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Breastfeeding Disparities

In honor of Black Breastfeeding Week, we have compiled a list of Clinical Lactation articles that pertain to breastfeeding disparities.  We hope that these will prove to be a useful resource to educate.   Breastfeeding and Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality:...

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Celebrate National Breastfeeding Month!

What does National Breastfeeding Month look like for you? Celebrating breastfeeding/chestfeeding parents? Advocating for family-friendly feeding policies? Normalizing breastfeeding/chestfeeding? Educating about the power of human milk? Tell us what you are doing for...

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U.S. Opposition to WHO Resolution

****This is an ongoing situation and the post below will be updated as needed.  Please comment or email us with additional resources to be added**** Many of you have read the New York Times article regarding the United States' opposition to the breastfeeding...

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