For September 2026 IBCLC exam candidates · 5 days only · Closes Friday, May 29 at midnight Central
The Lactation Exam Mastery course, the Study Guides, the Exam Practice Platform, and two 30-minute 1:1 sessions with me — bundled for the only time all year, at $97 total.
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Normally $278 à la carte — yes, the math is real. See below.
Lifetime access to course + study guides · 12-month access to practice platform · Two 30-minute 1:1s with Margaret booked through August 31
“Margaret Salty’s suite of test-prep materials was a huge part of my pre-exam strategy, and I am so glad I turned to her for help. Her video lessons helped me figure out my plan, and the study guides gave me concise, focused, research-backed materials to use as a basis for my studying. I was also able to test her bank of practice questions, and they helped me feel prepared for the exam. I was so overwhelmed before I found Margaret’s course, but she made the process simple and straightforward. She is committed to staying up-to-date on the latest research. She is also extremely responsive and open to feedback, so the course is always evolving. I highly recommend Margaret’s course for your exam prep.”
You just registered for the September 2026 exam, and the receipt is sitting in your inbox. You’ve started consuming free content and somehow, the more you read, the more confused you get. You don’t need more content. You need someone to tell you what to do first.
If that’s you — keep reading.
The IBCLC exam isn’t a recall test. It’s a reasoning test wearing a recall test’s clothes.
That’s why so many candidates — including high performers in their clinical work — feel blindsided on exam day. They’ve memorized vast amounts of content. They know the WHO Code, the lactogenesis stages, the differential between physiologic and breast-milk jaundice. And then they sit down in front of a clinical scenario where four out of four answers sound technically correct, and they freeze.
The candidates who pass share one thing: they’ve trained themselves to read a question slowly, eliminate the obvious distractors first, and choose between the remaining options on clinical priority instead of memory.
That’s the PASS Framework. Prepare. Analyze. Simplify. Strategize. It’s what I use when I’m walking trainees through real cases in the hospital. And for five days only, it comes bundled with everything else I sell for the IBCLC exam — for the price of a single 1:1 session.
the strategy course
$37 individually
The PASS Framework in full. Six-week structured study plan. Cheat sheets for thinking like the exam writers, using practice questions correctly, identifying key information in question stems, and avoiding pre-study mistakes. Practice exam tracker. Strategy guide for charts and graphs. Lifetime access.
the high-yield content
$47 individually
300+ pages of curated, blueprint-aligned content across all 7 IBLCE domains. Not everything you could know — everything you actually need to know. Built so the right material is exactly where you’d expect it to be. Lifetime access.
the reasoning gym
$97 individually
1,700+ realistic, exam-style questions across all 7 domains, including image/photo questions and a full timed exam simulator that mirrors the real test. Domain-by-domain practice. Detailed reasoning walkthroughs on every single question — not just answer keys. Performance tracking that shows you which domains to focus on next. 12-month access (covers you through the September exam and re-take eligibility window if needed).
the personal time
$97 individually
Two private 30-minute sessions with me, scheduled through Calendly between June 1 and August 31. Use them however serves your prep best — one focused session early to set strategy, one closer to exam day to lock in confidence; or two back-to-back deep dives on your weakest domains. The candidates who book 1:1 time consistently say it changed how they walked into exam day. Capped at limited availability — see note below.
| Lactation Exam Mastery course | $37 |
| Exam Mastery Study Guides | $47 |
| Exam Practice Platform (1,700+ Qs · image questions · exam simulator) | $97 |
| Two 30-minute 1:1 sessions with Margaret | $97 |
| Total à la carte value | $278 |
| Bundle, May 25–29 only | $97 |
| You save | $181 |
The Exam Prep Mobile App is sold separately (not part of the bundle) — you can add it as an optional $19.99 add-on at checkout.
“I’m excited to share I passed with 85%. Your exam prep class was very helpful, reminding me to keep it simple and not over analyze. While I also purchased and utilized LER, Linda Smith, etc… the difference with your course is that it minimized the noise and overwhelm that I felt with the other exam prep programs. So, thank you for doing what you do.”
A look inside
“I had so much doubt but so glad the results are in and how well I actually did. So thank you for everything you taught me and the guidance not only in the classroom but with your course and social media content. I owe my success to the support!”
“Thanks to you for all your help, knowledge and mentorship!”
“I just wanted to check in and say thank you for your time (and course) while I was working towards and studying for my IBCLC exam. I am happy to report that I passed! Very excited to get to work as an IBCLC.”
You’ll have a single repeatable process for every question — read twice, identify the verb, eliminate two distractors, choose on clinical priority. Even when you don’t know the content cold, you’ll know how to work toward the right answer.
You’ll stop trying to memorize every rare clinical scenario. You’ll spend your time on what actually shows up — the lactogenesis stages, the differential between mastitis spectrum conditions, the IBLCE Code of Professional Conduct, the WHO Code, the things that come up over and over in case-based questions.
Most candidates do practice questions, get a score, and move on. You’ll learn the PASS-style review process that turns every wrong answer into a structural lesson and every right answer into a confirmed pattern.
That’s the difference between studying for the exam and studying the way the exam thinks.
Just wanted to reach out again and say a big THANK YOU for your program! I am so very thankful for all the work you’ve put into this to help us all be successful on our IBCLC exam!
I have a coworker who opted to not take your program and she didn’t pass. She is regretting her decision now. I told her to RUN to the exam mastery program as fast as she can!
I’m Margaret Salty. I’m an IBCLC with 20 years of cross-setting clinical experience — hospital, NICU, an outpatient lactation clinic I founded inside a hospital system, private practice, milk banking, and public health. I hold a doctorate in public health and a master’s degree in public health. I’m an active Pathway 2 instructor mentoring future IBCLCs every week.
My path into lactation began with my fourth baby, who was born critically ill, transferred between two NICUs, and required heart-lung bypass. He couldn’t breastfeed. So I had to pump — a critically ill newborn in the NICU, a mother who had never used a pump, and very little support. That experience shaped everything about how I teach. Not from a textbook. From having lived through what it actually feels like to need this kind of help, urgently, at the worst moment of your life.
I built Lactation Exam Mastery because the existing test prep market wasn’t teaching the way the exam actually thinks — and the candidates I mentor deserved better.
— Margaret
The bundle closes Friday, May 29 at 11:59 PM Central. After that, individual prices return.
“I passed!!!!!! Thank you so much, Margaret, for all of your guidance! What sweet relief!”
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Lifetime access to course + guides · 12-month access to practice platform · Two 30-minute 1:1s with Margaret · No refunds — email me first if you’re unsure.