studies for lactation educator certification?

[Mama2Xander]

I am working on certification as a lactation educator through CAPPA (CLE program) and one of the requirements is to "review 3 current research studies (study published in the past 2 years). Write a two page review of each study. Compare and contrast two of the studies and write a comparison study of at least 500 words". I am not really sure how to go about doing this... anyone have any advice? I think I have seen some members on here who are CLEs or are doing the program.

Anyone seen any studies lately that would be great for this kind of assignment?

Thanks!

[SublimeBirthGirl]

I saw one last year about Fentanyl during labor drastically reducing bf success rates. That'd be interesting.

I'm actually organizing a CAPPA CLE workshop in Atlanta. How did you like it? We're very excited!

[Mama2Xander]

Originally Posted by SublimeBirthGirl

I saw one last year about Fentanyl during labor drastically reducing bf success rates. That'd be interesting.

I'm actually organizing a CAPPA CLE workshop in Atlanta. How did you like it? We're very excited!

Thanks, good idea!

Re: the CLE program: so far, so good! I am doing the distance program through CAPPA Canada. I tried to organize a workshop here in Vancouver but no one else wanted to sign up. There is a local college that runs a good breastfeeding counsellor course so everyone takes that program and no one wanted to go the CLE route. Oh well. I ended up taking the BF counsellor course and am now doing the rest of the requirements for the CLE certification. There was a lot of overlap (which I knew ahead of time, and it actually worked out really well). For the course I had to do 38 hours of various observation experience (combination of hospital, community LC, LLL meetings, BF education classes, etc) so that more than covered the observational experience for the CLE course. And some of the research I did for course projects is now useful for the CLE assignments I'm doing. So, it all worked out well.