Lamaze offers a variety of resources designed to help you prepare for and ace the LCCE Exam.
Lamaze Exam Blueprint
The Lamaze Exam Blueprint contains valuable information on the competencies assessed on the exam as well as their respective weights. ¡El modelo del examen también está disponible en español!
Blueprint (English)
Blueprint (en Español)
Educator Seminars
Our trainers are among the most highly skilled childbirth educators in the world, and a Lamaze-Accredited Childbirth Educator Seminar is the gold standard for training new childbirth educators. You’ll learn how to teach creative, hands-on childbirth education for Millennials and Gen Z, all based on the highest quality evidence. You may already know a lot about birth, but our trainers will teach you how to teach.
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Lamaze Educator Learning Guide
The Lamaze Educator Learning Guide is a self-study resource designed to help you develop the competencies of a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator. It prepares you to teach the essential content for Lamaze classes and will continue to serve as an important reference for evidence-based information throughout your professional career.
Learning Guide
Exam Prep Toolkit
Recently updated and expanded, our exam prep toolkit allows you to practice your test-taking skills and try your hand at several questions similar to the ones you may find on the Lamaze exam! It also provides key information on exam construction, explanations of the seven competencies that drive all Lamaze teaching and helpful testing tips.
Exam Prep Toolkit
Certification Exam Practice Test
Our enhanced 50-question practice test covers all seven of the Lamaze competencies, allowing you to test where you’re at with your recall and reasoning skills. This practice exam features content hand-selected by experienced LCCEs, and each exam answer is accompanied by a rationale from Lamaze experts as well as external reference links.
Practice Test
Educator Essentials
The Lamaze Educator Essentials were created to offer an alternative for experienced educators to learn and understand the Lamaze approach to childbirth education and in circumstances when attending a live seminar is not an option. Learn more about the three modules:
Supplemental Readings
Lamaze International has developed a list of supplemental readings for Lamaze Certification Exam candidates. This list is intended for use in conjunction with the Learning Guide. Each text contains pertinent information for the childbirth educator on topics including pregnancy, labor support, breastfeeding, and early parenting. Some materials are also available in video format. For videos hosted on YouTube, you may use the built-in “auto-translation” feature, which supports multiple languages via Google Translate and works on most videos with closed captions. Lamaze cannot verify the accuracy of these translations.
Although some texts on the main list are offered in other languages, all materials on the Spanish reading list are provided exclusively in Spanish.
Adult Learning Breastfeeding Cultural Competence Labor and Childbirth Physiology (Pregnancy & Childbirth) Global Health Lamaze International Multi-topical Respectful Care
- Adult Learning
- Breastfeeding
- Cultural Competence
- Labor and Childbirth
- Physiology (Pregnancy & Childbirth)
- Global Health
- Lamaze International
- Multi-topical
- Respectful Care
Spanish Supplemental Readings
- Breastfeeding
- Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (2025). Practitioner Handouts.
Cultural Competence
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2023, August 22). Moms Deserve Respectful and Equal Maternity Care. ASL video in Spanish.
Labor and Childbirth
- Lamaze (2019). Six Healthy Birth Practice Papers.
- World Health Organization (WHO). (2018). Recomendaciones de la OMS: cuidados durante el parto para una experiencia de parto positiva. (238 pages).
Multi-topical
- Simkin P, Whalley J et al (2024). Guia Sencilla para Tener un Bebe: Lo que Usted Necesita Saber.
Note: The Lamaze Certification Council develops and administers certification examinations to determine the qualifications of candidates for certification. The Council does not require, provide, or endorse any specific learning guides, training or review courses. The Council, certification staff members, and certification subject matter experts do not have involvement in the creation, accreditation, approval, endorsement or delivery of the Lamaze Educator Learning Guide or any examination review courses, preparatory materials, educational programs, or training programs that prepare candidates for the LCCE certification examination.
Last updated: May 2025
Thank you to our dedicated Education Committee volunteers who have updated this list over the years.