Florida Lactation Consultant Association
Promoting Excellence in Lactation
"Empowering our society to become a breastfeeding culture."
Welcome to the Florida Lactation Consultant Association web site.
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Video- Insight into What IBCLCs Do &
Why They are Important to Health of Mothers and Babies
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NEWS FLASH: NATIONAL LAW!!! The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a bill that has passed both the Senate and the House and was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. Bill includes federal worksite breastfeeding support.
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Join IBLCE in Florida for a 25th anniversary celebration!
During its fall meeting in Palm Beach, the IBLCE Board of Directors will be holding a celebratory reception during the week of September 20-24, 2010. If you would like to attend this reception, please sign up here.
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FLCA members attend 2-day
training "Implementing
The Business Case for
Breastfeeding in YOUR
Community" in Daytona
Beach on December 14
and 15, 2009.  

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ILCA and FLCA member Margie Forrest, just re-turned from an outreach trip to the coastal community of Petit Goave, Haiti, located west of Port-au-Prince, and discov-ered firsthand the important role of IBCLCs in an emergency. She went as part of a Florida interdisciplinary medical team that included physicians, nurses, psychologists, a social worker (who provided play therapy for children), and Margie as the team`s lactation consultant.
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FREE Breastfeeding Education for Physicians, Nurses & Dietitians with Continuing Education Credit
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FLCA's Mission Statement
FLCA is dedicated to building and sustaining a statewide association that advocates for lactation professionals and the advancement of the profession of IBCLC.

FLCA is dedicated to creating a climate among health professionals, parents, and the general population which promotes, supports, and protects breastfeeding as the optimum method of infant feeding.

The purposes of FLCA are:
To serve as a local affiliate of the International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA) and abide by its bylaws and policies
To enhance the reputation, image and credibility of lactation consultants
To improve the status of the lactation consultancy profession
To provide continuing education for lactation consultants
To serve as a network of information for lactation consultants

FLCA encourages collaborative work among its members and other maternal-child health care professionals. We support and encourage professional growth of our members and all those working with breastfeeding women and children throughout the state of Florida.

IBCLC
International Board Certified Lactation Consultant
The Gold Standard of
Lactation Consultants
What do we do?  "A lactation consultant is a health care professional whose scope of practice is focused upon providing education and management to prevent and solve breastfeeding problems and to encourage a social environment that effectively supports the breastfeeding mother/infant dyad." (ILCA 1993)

USLCA is ILCA in the USA
FLCA is a chapter of USLCA
Mission: To build and sustain a national association that advocates for lactation professionals
Vision: IBCLCs are valued recognized members of the health care team.
Become a part of this dynamic, essential and exciting new venture!
Membership in USLCA is bundled with ILCA membership.


Lactation consultants typically spend two to five years acquiring education in the theoretical and practical aspects of assisting the breastfeeding family.  Certification is offered by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE) by exam. IBLCE Candidate Information Guide and Application Booklet  in pdf Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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 2008 ILCA Conference
Florida IBCLCs WINS Research Presentation
The Research Committee also coordinated the Conference Research Presentation Award, a new award sponsored in 2008 by Barbara Wilson-Clay, Kay Hoover, and Rebecca Mannel to help beginning researchers to bring their work to publication. The two $500 awards were given to Rachelle Lessen for "Prenatal Counseling for Families in the Fetal Heart Program" and Mary Ann Kotyk et al. for "Screening Tool for Poor Suck: When to Refer."
Judith Ann Frilingos and
Vicki Robbins
Florida Hospital Lactation Center

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Bonnie Lanternier & Ruthy Wilson
with Exhibit at NAPNAP Conference
Clearwater, FL (June 2003) - Morton Plant Mease Hospital becomes Florida's second UNICEF Baby-Friendly designated hospital
FLORIDA has two
UNICEF designated
Baby-Friendly Hospitals
Cocoa Beach, FL (August 15th, 2000)—Cape Canaveral Hospital was Florida's first UNICEF Baby-Friendly
designated hospital



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