> Anne Williams wrote:
> I do see a common thread in some of the 'professionals' feeling they know
> more, do it better, whatever you want to call it, it does exist.
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Anne, I'm a LC and LLLleader and want to share some thoughts on this. You're
right in suggesting that professionals do  not neccecairily know more. A fellow
LLLleader/LC of mine once described it as follows:
''A Leader has a jar full of beads and once a mother comes to her for
information, she starts searching her jarfull of beads untill she comes up with
the right one. An experienced leader has a jar full of beads that are different,
some bigger, some brighter coloured and she can find the right one faster. The
LC has necklesses of beads and sees them in their mutual correlation and is able
to pick up the one she needs rihgt away in most cases.''

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> I was shocked at the opposition from one LC and her thoughts on LLL.  That
> was all the 'boss' needed to hear, to nix that idea.
snip

I think I've said it before, but it actually was LLL that started with the
lactation consultants idea. The first LCs were experienced LLLleaders and they
expanded the profession both in knowledgeable depth and broadened input from
other professions.

Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC, LLLleader, living in Maaseik, Belgium
http://www.users.skynet.be/eurolac
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