I prepared by taking the Human Lactation course through Wichita State University.  This course uses the book  _Breastfeeding and Human Lactation_ by Jan Riordan.  This course also gave me more than the necessary 45 lactation hours.  I took it for 60 hours.

All the tests in this class use the same format as the IBLCE exam.  The course studies follow the exam blueprint.

I felt well prepared but I did not know about all the resources on the web for studying for the exam.  I think I am glad about that because I would have worried that I wasn't prepared enough if I had known all the options.   I just studied the material that was presented in my class.  If I had it all to do over again, I would definitely study _The Breastfeeding Atlas_ before taking the exam.  I found that publication after I took the exam and it helped answer some of my residual confusion about exam questions, especially those that used photos.

One thing about the photos in the exam.  Be sure that you have good vision correction.  I have always been myopic and wear corrective glasses but have slowly, after 40 started losing my near vision, while wearing my glasses.  I had to take my glasses off to study the pictures.  That really slowed me down.

Even without any study materials outside my Lactation course, I felt good about my exam score.   I think the Human Lactation course materials prepared me well.

-Laura Spitzfaden

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