Initial exam candidates are expected to have completed 95 hours of lactation specific education, including five hours of education focused on communication skills. If you attend a session that has been awarded CERPs by IBLCE, we will accept only the hours verified as L-CERPs for your lactation education requirement. For the five hours of education focused on communication skills only, the hours could have been assigned L- or R-CERPs.
E-CERPs (Ethics) and R-CERPs (Related) are sessions that are not lactation specific education, but are related to the practise of lactation consultants; a course may be helpful to an IBCLC’s practise without being specific to lactation. You will need to find education that focuses on lactation specific aspects (e.g. anatomy for breastfeeding care).