Thank you Nikki,
As another non-LC working in the field, and I do not pretend to be in  
the
category of the wonderful researchers and tireless promoters you
mentioned, I appreciate your comment.

I didn't see the original post to which you are responding, and I am  
sure
that the poster meant no harm or ill by it, but still, it is  
worthwhile to
keep in mind that there are many paths to contributing to promoting and
supporting breastfeeding.


Naomi



> Dear Friends:
>
> Please explain why is it too bad that Dr. Suzanne Colson is not a  
> lactation
> consultant. Her work is brilliant, evidence-based, clinically  
> tested, timely
> and useful.
>
> Many great breastfeeding helpers were not lactation consultants.  
> None of the
> original 7 mothers that met in a Chicago park in 1956; not Lennart  
> Righard
> nor Michel Odent; not Kittie Frantz nor Chloe Fisher nor Diane Spatz  
> nor
> Niles Newton, nor Michael Woolridge nor Alan Lucas. Not Gene Cranston
> Anderson, nor Susan Ludington nor Nils Bergmann, nor Marshall  
> Klaus.  All of
> us have received the benefits of these brilliant minds and hearts.

warmly,
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Naomi Bar-Yam Ph.D.
Executive Director
Mothers' Milk Bank of New England

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