Someone wondered about LCs working for non-Code compliant companies.
 
If all IBCLCs quit their jobs who are working for non-CCC, there would be a  
lot of mothers that would not get help with breastfeeding.  Hundreds of  
thousands of mothers.  And a lot of IBCLCs that would be without a  paycheck, 
supporting or helping to support their families.
 
My peds practice is non-CCC.  The hospital where I see moms &  babies is 
non-CCC.  So are the vast majority of the over 5000 hospitals in  the US where 
babies are born.  
 
Should we be talking up how to be a CCC?  Yes -- if that happens to be  the 
battle we choose to wage.  Sometimes we have to pick our battles, and  
sometimes the battle of the bag is not the one we choose to fight.   Sometimes it is 
all we can do to get through a day seeing moms &  babies.  Would being in a CC 
hospital make breastfeeding easier for  them?  Maybe -- and maybe not.  
Because being CC doesn't stop the  L&D interventions that often cause the problems 
to begin with....
 
Please understand I am not saying that code compliance is not  important.  It 
is.  But that isn't the only issue out there...and  suggesting that LCs 
shouldn't work for a non-CCC is probably not terribly  useful.  The important 
message in our Code of Ethics and SOP is how WE  conduct OURSELVES with regard to 
marketing products.  It doesn't say that  we can't work for a non-CCC company.
 
By the way, the ad that Rachel posted by Medela made me very, very  sad.  I 
appreciate there are times when mothers need to pump, and by doing  so they 
keep their babies from having formula, but to suggest that breastfeeding  is best 
ONLY for the baby, and pumping is best for BOTH mother and baby made the  
short hairs on the back of my neck stand up and quiver.  I'm glad for good  
pumps.  And sad that Medela thinks that they are improving things by taking  away 
the classic and offering only the symphony.  What they should have  said was 
that by a mother choosing Medela products and pumping, it is best for  Medela's 
bottom line.  
 
Wouldn't we have fun making our own ad for them???
 
 


Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC, FILCA
Lactation  Education Consultants
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