Development & Nutrition Topics to Review
Check the IBLCE’s Detailed Content Outline for a complete list of topics in this discipline. I have found that knowledge of the topics below is most important to passing the exam. Using your own materials, review each topic. You may check off each topic as you complete your review.
- Skull: Cranial & facial bones, sutures, fontanels
- Brain, cranial nerves, special senses, primitive reflexes & reflexes
- Oral structures (lips, frenulum, etc.)
- Digestion, GI tract, gut hormones
- GI environment, pH, and gut bacteria
- Structure of the mammary gland: Normal
- Structure of the mammary gland: Variations of normal tissues
- Function of the mammary gland: Stages of development
- Milk Production and Ejection: Parameters and variations
- Breast and nipple surgery
- Fertility, LAM
- Induced lactation, relactation
- Nutrition: Cultural aspects of food
- Nutritional needs: Pregnancy and breastfeeding macronutrients
- Early human nutritional needs: Fetus to 6 months
- Early human nutritional needs: > 6 months
- Nutrient deficiencies: Mother
- Nutrient deficiencies: Child
- Biochemistry of human milk: Nutritive value
- Biochemistry of human milk: Protective value
- Milk banking
- Physical cognitive developmental milestones: 2 to 6 months
- Physical cognitive developmental milestones: 6-18 months
- Physical cognitive developmental milestones: 2 to 3 years
- Failure to thrive, slow to gain
- Major psychological developmental theories