Gain access to all Lamaze webinars, homestudies, on demand courses, and past conference recordings at one great price! Specifically designed for perinatal professionals wanting to participate in5 or more hours of Continuing Education in 2024 or 2025. The Lamaze Access Pass offers Lamaze contact hours for recertification (also accepted by ICEA, DONA, and other organizations), Continuing Nursing Education credits through the California Board of Registered Nursing, and CERPs. The Access Pass is an excellent value for those who are wanting to participate in more CE and stay up to date on the latest research and best practices in maternity care.
The 2025 Lamaze Educator Access Pass includes:
70+ on-demand courses available in the Lamaze Learning Center
Webinars, conference recordings, homestudies, and on demand learning courses
All six webinars in 2025 and the last live webinar of 2024, Initiating, Establishing, and Maintaining Milk Supply in Mothers of Preterm Babies (subscribers may stream webinars live or watch on-demand)
Any on demand and homestudy courses published in 2025 and the last two months of 2024
To view the complete list of included content, please click on the "Content" tab and review the course titles. Please review the FAQs before purchasing to determine if the Access Pass is right for you.
Introductory Pricing
Member - $169 Non-member - $199 LMIC Member - $69 LMIC Non-Member - $79
Lower and Middle Income Countries (LMIC) Discount: To qualify for an LMIC discount on registration, attendees must be residents of a category B, C, or D country. LMIC designations are based on World Bank Data.
The ability to provide emotional and physical support to a patient during one of the most significant moments of her life is a privilege afforded to intrapartum nurses who attend to laboring and delivering patients.
The ability to provide emotional and physical support to a patient during one of the most significant moments of her life is a privilege afforded to intrapartum nurses who attend to laboring and delivering patients. Labor support improves birth outcomes, reduces cesarean birth rates, and decreases anesthesia use. Within the hospital context, this quality improvement project investigated the effects of educating intrapartum nurses about labor support and providing them with hands-on training. Surveys, including the Self-Efficacy Labor Support Scale, were given preeducation and posteducation to evaluate and document knowledge acquisition. Results support teaching intrapartum nurses learning evidence-based labor comfort strategies to support a woman’s labor preference.
Authors: Ana Viera-Martinez, DNP, MSN, APRN-CNS, CNL, RNC-OB, CLE Ruth K. Rosenblum, DNP, RN, PNP-BC, CNS Victoria Aberbook, RNC-OB, MSN, CNS, C-EFM
Participants may earn 1.0 Lamaze Contact Hours and 1.0 hour of CNE through the California Board of Registered Nursing.
This webinar will explore key takeaways for hosting a postpartum support group.
Are you looking for new ways to support parents as they move from pregnancy to the postpartum period? Presenters Dr. Joann O'Leary and Dr. Jolene Pearson hosted a postpartum support group together for over 15 years. In listening to the parents, they identified the types of information and support they needed and developed a dynamic model for supporting new parents. This presentation will describe how to reach postpartum parents, the format of the support group, common topics raised by parents, resources helpful in meeting their needs, and suggestions for hosting a your own postpartum group.
Session Objectives: 1. Identify the key issues raised by new parents in postpartum 2. Explore key considerations for hosting a postpartum group. 3. Identify critical resources and knowledge needed by the facilitators.
Participants may earn 1.0 Lamaze Contact Hour and 1.0 hour of CNE through CBRN.
Joann O’Leary
PhD, MPH, MS, IMH-E® (IV)
Dr. Joann O’Learyhas a background as an LPN in NICU, an infant teacher and parent-coordinator in preschool, birth to five special education, and 18 years as a Parent-Infant Specialist in a High-Risk perinatal center.
She was a Fulbright Specialist at University College Cork, Ireland in 2016 and currently facilitates on-line groups for the Star Legacy Foundation. Her research and writing focus on how perinatal loss and the pregnancy that follows impact parents, children, and extended family members.
She has authored four books on the topic, co-authored two chapters, over 40 articles, and has spoken nationally and internationally on the impact of loss on families.
Jolene Pearson
PhD, IMH-E® (IV), Associate Professor Emerita
Bethel University
Dr. Jolene Pearson is licensed in early childhood education, parent education, and early childhood special education in the state of Minnesota. She is an Emerita Associate Professor at Bethel University and is endorsed in infant mental health IMH-E® (IV).
She recently completed a Fulbright Specialist Project at the University of Maribor in Slovenia focused on development of early childhood standards.
Her research focuses on the preparation of teachers to work in early childhood settings. She is the author of Pathways to Positive Parenting: Helping Parents Make the Most of the Earliest Months published by Zero to Three. Jolene has been a presenter at local, state and international conferences.
A significant part of setting up a healthy gut microbiome happens in the narrow window of labor, birth and early postpartum.
A significant part of setting up a healthy gut microbiome happens in the narrow window of labor, birth and early postpartum. A healthy infant microbiome plays a critical role in a child's long-term health. Birth workers can educate their clients how birth, skin to skin, and breast/chest feeding help to optimally seed and feed a baby's microbiome and how to mitigate the impact of cesarean birth, antibiotics and other interventions.
Session Objectives: 1. Describe the human microbiome 2. List the 6 seeding and feeding events that optimize baby's microbiome 3. Describe the special role of human milk in infant immune training 4. Discuss the effects of cesarean birth and antibiotics on the infant microbiome 5. List microbiome friendly birth practices
Participants may earn 1.50 Lamaze Contact Hours and 1.50 hours of CNE through the California Board of Registered Nursing.
A recording of the presentation will be made available within 24 hours of the live event.
This presentation will highlight the common tips and tricks which can be utilized to help mothers steadily build their milk production and successfully breast/chestfeed their babies.
Globally, preterm births have significantly increased. Everybody knows about the importance of breast milk for newborns and especially for preemies. However, prematurity is cited as one of the most common causes for lactation failure in mother-baby dyads. This presentation will cover common tips and tricks which can be utilized to help mothers build their milk production slowly and steadily, to provide Mother's Own Milk (MOM) throughout length of hospital stay (LOS), and until they transition successfully to breast/chestfeeding their babies.
Participants may earn 1.0 Lamaze Contact Hour, 1.0 hour of CNE through CBRN (Provider #15932) and 1.0 L-CERP.
Amrita Desai, IBCLC, MSc Health Sciences (Nutrition & Dietetics)
Boasting a 15 year tenure as a Practicing Board Certified Lactation Consultant, Amrita has dedicated her career to advancing expertise in various realms. Her specific passions include Golden Hour Feeding, Kangaroo Care, Breastfeeding Multiples, as well as initiating, maintaining and establishing Milk Supply in mothers of Preterm Babies. She also excels in guiding breastfeeding journeys in unique scenarios such as Surrogacy with Induced Lactation and handling special situations like Preterm, LBW, Surgical cases, Syndromes, Cleft palates and more.
Noteworthy as a Faculty member for both the Indian Academy of Pediatrics and the National Neonatology Forum, Amrita has been an integral part of numerous breastfeeding and nutrition workshops. Her extensive training in Human Milk Banking under the guidance of Dr. Ben Hartmann at PREM Bank, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Perth, WA has been pivotal. She played a key role in establishing the first Preterm Human Milk Bank named “Yashoda” at Sahyadri Specialty Hospital, Shastrinagar, Pune. This initiative was modeled after the successful PREM Bank in WA, showcasing Amrita’s commitment to advancing lactation care and support.
This article provides a summary of the current recommendations for follow-up after a high-risk pregnancy.
Women with a high-risk pregnancy or birth often need additional follow-up care. This article provides a summary of the current recommendations for follow-up after a high-risk pregnancy. It is intended to be a quick read for the busy childbirth educator and includes a table that summarizes the recommendations.
This session will discuss one childbirth educator’s professional experience in successful implantation of Elective inductions of labor education and the proven results within a hospital system.
Elective inductions of labor (EIOL) are inductions of labor for non-medical reasons. EIOL for healthy people is a growing concern, causing issues not only for the pregnant family, but also for hospital systems. Childbirth educators and EIOL-specific education can help reduce this growing number. This session will discuss one childbirth educator’s professional experience in successful implantation of EIOL education and the proven results within a hospital system.
Participants may earn 1.0 Lamaze Contact Hour and 1.0 hour of CNE through the California Board of Registered Nursing (CBRN).
Wendy Trees Shiffer MS, CD(DONA), CLC, LCCE, FACCE, LEC
Family Trees Birth Programs
Wendy is the Executive Director and Instructor for Family Trees Birth Programs and holds a master’s degree in health sciences with a concentration in midwifery and women's healthcare. She is a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator, a Fellow of the Academy of Certified Childbirth Educators, a Certified Birth Doula, a Certified Lactation Counselor a Lamaze Program Director, and Chair of Lamaze’s Education Council. Professionally, Wendy has co-facilitated research at Towson University School of Nursing which was published in the Journal of Perinatal Education. She regularly guest lectures at several universities and hospitals across the US as well as regional, national, and international conferences.
Wendy is passionate about addressing the healthcare disparities that exist within the United States maternity care system. She thoroughly enjoys sharing her love for labor support and childbirth education. Above all else, she is most proud of her four children.
The Farver–Campos Labor Coping Scale is evidence-based and promotes vaginal birth and personal labor care by guiding nurses and laboring women through a number of coping options.
The 10-point pain scale was developed to avoid undertreated pain in the hospital setting. Developed in a Veterans Administration hospital for medical–surgical patients in 2003, the 10-point pain scale was adopted in health care as part of the “pain as the fifth vital sign” initiative. The pain scale was implemented in maternity care as part of a general hospital initiative. Assessing coping is more appropriate to the labor process than focusing on pain or its avoidance. The Farver–Campos Labor Coping Scale is evidence-based and promotes vaginal birth and personal labor care by guiding nurses and laboring women through a number of coping options. The scale is an appropriate tool to replace the 10-point pain scale in the maternity care setting.
Participants may earn 1.0 Lamaze Contact Hour and 1.0 hour of CNE through CBRN (Provider #15932).
Learn how the Healthy Pregnancy Plate, a simple tool for parents to use when planning meals and eating habits, helps ensure adequate nutrition for pregnancy and postpartum.
Gestational diabetes, PIH, anemia, and other pregnancy complications are happening more frequently, especially among disadvantaged groups. Nutrition may be one of the most effective preventive measures, but many – if not most – parents don’t feel like they understand what to eat during pregnancy, and feel overwhelmed trying to figure it out. Lamaze educators and other childbirth professionals are in an ideal position to distribute additional nutrition knowledge. In this session, learn how the Healthy Pregnancy Plate - a simple tool for parents to use when planning meals and eating habits, helps ensure adequate nutrition for pregnancy and postpartum. We will cover how you can quickly and effectively use this in your classes to support healthier pregnancies, better postpartum health, and giving babies a healthy foundation.
Registrants will gain access to a 20-minute pregnancy nutrition curriculum, presentation, and participant handouts that they can incorporate into their childbirth education classes.
Participants may earn 1.25 Lamaze Contact Hours and 1.25 hours of CNE.
Melinda Delisle, MS LCCE
Confident Pregnancy
Melinda Delisle, MS LCCE began teaching childbirth classes in 2000 and attended about 30 births as a doula. Watching the preterm birth rate of her students and clients drop from 7.5% to 1%, primarily as a result of improved nutrition and lifestyle, hooked Melinda on preventing pregnancy complications with these accessible tools. Though perinatal health was pushed to the sidelines while she helped grow and manage a successful team building company for over 15 years, this passion for reducing pregnancy complications remained strong. Melinda earned her MS in Human Nutrition in 2020, and is completing her hours to become a Certified Nutrition Specialist.
In addition to work with 1-1 clients, Melinda is striving to revolutionize the way we do prenatal and mental health care in the United States. She is systematizing what we know in medical, nutrition, and other health research to make more personalized recommendations accessible to a broader reach of people, which will improve health outcomes for all at a lower cost.
A review of recent research from around the world about the optimal time for routine labor induction.
Is routine induction at 39 weeks a "done deal"? In this session, Debby will discuss guidelines and recent research from around the world about the optimal time for routine labor induction. She will also discuss the factors that childbirth education students should consider when making an informed decision about elective labor induction.
Participants may earn .75 Lamaze contact hours.
Debby Amis, BSN, former RN, CD(DONA), LCCE, FACCE
Debby Amis’s career in childbirth education spans 40 years. She has taught childbirth education classes, trained new childbirth educators and doulas, and updated educators at international conferences and specialty workshops. A long-time volunteer with Lamaze International, Debby has served as President of Lamaze, Education Council Chair, and on the Certification Council. Debby and her business partner, Jeanne Green, authored the popular childbirth education handbook, Prepared Childbirth – The Family Way, which has sold almost 3 million copies. Debby and her husband, Steve, also a past Lamaze Board Member, live in Houston, Texas.
JustBirth Space is a virtual perinatal support space that offers free, compassionate, and responsive support for pregnant and parenting individuals in the New York area.
JustBirth Space is a virtual perinatal support space that offers free, compassionate, and responsive support for pregnant and parenting individuals in New York City and northern New Jersey. Based on the expertise of community-based doula programs and grounded in anti-racist models of care, JustBirth Space puts the principles of birth justice into practice by humanizing virtual care in order to address the systems and structures that lead to racial disparities in maternal health outcomes. JustBirth Space exemplifies how programs can create adaptive community-driven solutions and equitable partnerships to address the heightened needs associated with the COVID-19 pandemic but reflect the longstanding inequities in our maternity care delivery system.
Participants may earn .50 Lamaze Contact Hours.
Aimée Brill, CD, PCD
Aimée Brill, CD, PCD is a mother, facilitator, consultant, birth justice activist, community-based doula trainer, and is the Co-Director of Village Birth International (VBI), based both in Syracuse, NY, New Jersey, and northern Uganda. She has been practicing as a perinatal health professional providing local, national, and international advocacy, consultancy, mentorship, doula trainings, and education since 2003. Aimée facilitates workshops and provides consulting services for organizations and institutions committed to examining whiteness and implementing equitable models into their frameworks and partnerships.
Chanel Porchia-Albert, CD, CPD, CLC, CHHC
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Ancient Song Doula Services
Chanel L. Porchia Albert CD, CPD, CLC, CHHC is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ancient Song Doula Services. She is a certified lactation counselor, midwifery assistant, and vegan chef who has served on various advisory boards throughout the country. Her work in birth and reproductive justice continues to span into the research and methods of care of marginalized people and people of color bringing a human rights framework into birthing rooms and beyond into institutional reform and accountability measures within healthcare to address implicit bias and racism.
The 2025 Access Pass is an excellent investment for both your wallet and your professional development! The Access Pass was specifically designed to benefit learners who are …
Childbirth educators, doulas, nurses, lactation consultants, lactation counselors, midwives, and other perinatal professionals wanting to participate 5 or more hours of Continuing Education in 2024 or 2025.
Needing to renew a professional certification in 2024 or 2025. The Lamaze Access Pass offers Lamaze contact hours for recertification (also accepted by ICEA, DONA, and other organizations), Continuing Nursing Education credits through the California Board of Registered Nursing (approved provider #15932), and CERPs (Lamaze is a long-term provider of CERPs #CLT108-12).
Wanting to become more engaged with Lamaze and your professional Lamaze community through live webinars and continuing education.
Committed to staying up to date on the latest research and best practices in maternity care.
What’s included in the 2025 Lamaze Education Access Pass?
70+ on-demand courses available in the Lamaze Learning Center
Featuring webinars, conference recordings, homestudies, and on demand learning courses
To see the complete list of course content, please visit the 2025 Access Pass page in the Lamaze Learning Center
All six webinars in 2025 and the last live webinar of 2024, Initiating, Establishing, and Maintaining Milk Supply in Mothers of Preterm Babies on November 13 (subscribers may stream webinars live or watch on-demand)
Homestudy and on demand courses published in 2025 and the last two months of 2024
What’s not included in the Access Pass?
Certification preparation products, such as the Lamaze Educator Learning Guide, Educator Essentials Modules, the LCCE Exam Practice Test and Toolkit
Business development events or workshops in 2024 and 2025
Other special events that may be offered in 2025, such as a virtual conference
When can I purchase the 2025 Access Pass?
You can purchase the Access Pass for 2025 between October 31, 2024 and December 30, 2025. Purchase early and get the last two months of 2024 free! Your access to all courses included in the 2025 Access Pass ends on December 31, 2025 at 11:59 pm ET.
Is the Access Pass refundable if I decide not to use it?
The Access Pass is not refundable nor can be pro-rated based on your date of purchase, please carefully read the FAQs before purchasing to determine if it is the right purchase for you.
Can this Access Pass be applied towards courses I’ve already purchased in 2024 or prior?
No, this Access Pass offering starts on October 31, 2024 and cannot be applied towards prior purchases. If you have already registered for the last webinar of 2024 and would like to upgrade to the Access Pass, please email info@lamaze.org and we will refund the price of the individual webinar purchase.
How do I take courses included in the Access Pass?
Navigate to “My Dashboard” located on the left menu in the Learning Center.
Click on “2025 Lamaze Education Access Pass.”
Select the “Content” tab to view all courses included in the Access Pass.
Select the course you want to view and click “Activate” to register for the course.
Please note that once you have purchased the Access Pass, you will not need to pay for individual courses that are included in the Access Pass. Always navigate to your Access Pass through “My Dashboard” to activate any courses you wish to participate in.
Am I automatically registered for live webinars that are included in the Access Pass?
Live webinars are included in the Access Pass but you are not automatically registered for them. You will need to navigate to your 2025 Access Pass page click “activate” on any of the webinars or courses you want to view (live or on-demand). Upcoming webinars will always be listed at the top of the “Content” tab so they are easy to find! You will also receive reminder emails to register for a live upcoming course.
Please note that once you have purchased the Access Pass, you will not need to pay for individual webinars that are included in the Access Pass. Always navigate to your Access Pass through “My Dashboard” to activate any courses you wish to participate in.
Do I need to be a member of Lamaze International to purchase the Access Pass?
No, members and non-members may purchase. Members will receive a discounted subscription rate.
Can I purchase the Access Pass for a group or for my team?
Contact us at info@lamaze.org to express your interest in purchasing for your team.
After purchasing the Access Pass when will I obtain access to courses/webinars?
You will immediately have access to all courses included in the Access Pass. Navigate to your Access Pass through “My Dashboard” to activate and register for any courses you wish to participate in.
Will the Access Pass automatically renew in 2026?
No, the Access Pass is not set to automatically renew in 2026. You will only be charged once for the 2025 Access Pass.
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