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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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