First Latch - About Us

FirstLatch provides Online education to hospitals working to obtain Baby-Friendly Hospital certification.

Lactation Education Resources has been selected to work with Abt Associates, Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute, Baby-Friendly USA and the Center for Public Health Quality to work with the second group of 100 hospitals funded by the CDC to achieve Baby-Friendly designation. Read LER Partners with Others To Make Hospitals Baby Friendly.

Feedback from our clients:

Customer Service

"I appreciate you being available for a night time call since we are in Korea. Thank you for providing excellent customer service and supporting your service members overseas"

"You all do a great job with the education and follow through."

Thorough Training

"It has such been a pleasure to work with you, and I appreciate all of your efforts to keep our facilities here at THR supplied with the correct access to your program. Thanks again to Vergie and all of your teaching faculty for creating such a great learning tool. Please pass along that I’ve seen many educational programs, even created a few, but I feel this one developed by Vergie is by far the most thorough I’ve ever experienced. Our nursing staff has been blessed to have this complete offering from which to learn about BFHI"

Enjoyment

"Our staff really are enjoying the program and it is so wonderful to hear consistency between the nurses in patient education and plan of care. The course has been very instrumental in that process for us."

Great Education

"I have taken the 15 hour course and reviewed the 1 hour course and am working my way through the physician course. It is great education, I'm so glad this was the program our hospital chose."

"I am halfway through this course, of which I am finding so informative! I am learning so much! I wish I knew this information and tips/tricks when I, myself, had issues breastfeeding so many years ago!"

Excellence

"This program is excellent, the nurse's course and the physician's course, and thanks for the ancillary staff courses. The LER staff is so responsive and easy to work with."

Positive Impact

"The nurses have all really enjoyed the course and I have seen a positive impact on their breastfeeding assistance."

Re-Designation

"We could never have been re-designated without your program! We have had a lot of good feedback from our providers."

Sekeita Lewis-Johnson

Our program director is Sekeita Lewis-Johnson DNP, FNP-BC, IBCLC.

Dr. Sekeita Lewis-Johnson is a Board-Certified Family Nurse Practitioner, International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and Birth Doula. She is the Accredited Provider Program Director and Instructor for Lactation Education Resources.

She is one of the Founding Members of Southeast Michigan IBCLCs of Color and Mama’s Mobile Milk and owner of Mommy and Me Lactation Consulting, LLC, and serves as a Board Director for The United States Breastfeeding Committee. She sits on The Maternal Infant Health, Health Equity Action Committee for the State of Michigan.

Dr. Lewis-Johnson has received multiple awards during her career. In 2021 she was the recipient of The Award of Excellence from the United States Lactation Consultant Association and The Alumni Service Award from The College of Nursing at Michigan State University. Dr. Lewis-Johnson is an avid advocate for equitable and just policies and practice especially related to black maternal-child health inequities.

What Our Students Are Saying

Very long but very informative. I definitely will be able to use the information with comfort and ease.

This was an outstanding course! The instructors pulled extremely valuable information from their research. I can't believe how much more I have learned and can take to my breastfeeding and formula-feeding families. Thank you.

I found this to be very informative and I have definitely changed my outlook on the baby friendly process.

I thought it was informative, I learned many new things that I wasn't aware of and it helped me to see how important breast feeding really is.

Very indepth and informative.

Great course. Easy to follow and material presented was very interesting.

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