Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
April 01, 2024 | by: Naima Beckles, MA, LCCE, CD
Naima Beckles, MA, LCCE, CD, shares why she pursued the Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator (LCCE) certification, including her best advice for future LCCEs.
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March 26, 2024 | by: Melissa DeFoor, Ph.D., RN, CLD, LCCE
Melissa DeFoor, Ph.D., RN, CLD, LCCE, shares why she pursued the Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator (LCCE) certification, including how her expertise empowers her students and communities.
November 13, 2019 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
Many childbirth educators new to Lamaze International have just finished the fall testing period and now wait to find out if they can add the credentials Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator (LCCE) to their name. When you are a new childbirth educator, it feels as if there is so much knowledge and information that you must remember and you worry about how you will be able to recall all the important content when facilitating your first classes without looking like a fumbling fool while clutching handfuls of notes and papers. This is a completely normal feeling, and the reality is, even experienced educators don’t hold all the information in their head and often rely on notes to be sure they are providing accurate information to class members. Here are five recall hacks that can help you be the professional educator you are right from the start.
March 28, 2019 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
Many of our Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educators (LCCEs) and Lamaze International members are also birth and/or postpartum doulas. I reached out to our members to learn more about how they find filling both these roles works for them.
December 21, 2017 | by: Jordan Alam, LCCE
The results are in: I passed my exam! Though I was told that it would take several weeks to receive the results, the waiting felt longer than I expected. Particularly because I work closely with other birth professionals who periodically asked: did you get your results yet?
November 09, 2017 | by: Jordan Alam, LCCE
We are following along with Jordan Alam as she prepares to sit for the Lamaze exam and starts teaching childbirth classes. This series Journey to LCCE and Teaching Lamaze Classes can help educators following a similar path to find community in others who are doing the same thing.
October 19, 2017 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
This new series Journey to LCCE and Teaching Lamaze Classes - Following Jordan Alam will take a similar path but also explore the experiences of training and teaching childbirth classes for the first time.
September 26, 2017 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
I recently had the opportunity to interview two creative childbirth educators who have turned to crowdfunding in order to raise money for their career development and conference activities. Learn more about these efforts to help them to help families.
August 24, 2017 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
Tips and tricks along with information about preparing for the Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator exam that is coming up November 8-10th, 2017. Learn why certification is important and how to prepare.
February 23, 2017 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
Lamaze recently has completed the translations and updates necessary to make the entire Lamaze International Learning Guide (GuÃa de Aprendizaje Lamaze) available in Spanish to those birth professionals preparing for the Lamaze exam in that language.
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