In a message dated 8/11/99 1:40:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< This is how my
 position as Breastfeeding Coordinator was eliminated. A $26,500 cut to "my"
 local agency last year - hmm, looks an awful lot like the BF coordinator's
 salary...well, since exclusively BFing women & infants make up the smallest
 # in our monthly count, must be that that position can be eliminated.
 There's logic, huh? >>


Hey, you have company!! I was cut back to 10 hrs a week in 1997, and the WIC
Director then took $15,000 of money in a bfing grant to hire a  temporary
clerical postion ( she even got permission from the foundation to convert the
money). I volunteered for a few weeks but decided not to give it away so I
quit.
And they don't understand why the bfing rates aren't any better then 32%
bfing on hospital discharge. A clerical temp is NOT the same as an IBCLC.

Barbara Whitehead, IBCLC
Ayden NC

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