Angela, I can't add much to what Barbara Ash already wrote. She pretty much 
covered it all. Your post to Lactnet is something all aspiring LCs should 
think about because the problems with our credentialing process do affect us 
in trying to make a living.

Meaning the value of an IBCLC in many communities has fallen because there 
are many people doing "LC" work who have low skills and mothers and doctors 
lump us all in the same pot. When a mother is not helped properly by her 
"LC", she does not usually think there has got to be someone better out 
there. And not all who are called an "LC" are IBCLC.

From my experience, she says to herself that person A was not able to solve 
the problem so no one will and there is no use trying anymore. These are not 
always difficult cases, either -- lately what I am seeing is babies with 
pronounced recessed chins that no one else has identified or can latch on 
properly!

And to be fair, some of the people who value the lactation profession lowly 
are those that don't see the difference between human milk and formula.

We have talked about this on Lactnet a few times in the past. We get some 
response but not as much as when we talk about a celebrity who is formula 
feeding. Which kind of discourages me.

I like what Barbara Ash wrote about contacting our IBLCE representatives.

Kathy Eng, BSW, IBCLC 

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