What is a lactation educator?

What is a lactation educator?

Rebecca Charlton (Lactation Educator & Registered Dietitian, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles) gives expert video advice on: When should I start breastfeeding my baby?; What nursing supplies does a new mother need?; How do I breastfeed my baby correctly? and more...

A lactation educator is someone that just gives information about breastfeeding. They're not the clinicians. I frequently call them the nurses to the doctors of the clinical consultants for breastfeeding. Actual problems would have to be solved by the "doctors" of breastfeeding who would be the consultants. So lactation educators are there to make sure that people understand what breastfeeding is about and how it gets done in general unless there's a problem.