In a message dated 4/11/99 6:27:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< Good time to eliminate your breastfeeding coordinator, huh? But the truth
 that the actual statistics from the local agency would tell will never be
 known, because without the BF Coordinator to gather *accurate* numbers, and
 compile meaningful reports, the numbers will be untrustworthy and
 meaningless. Not to mention that without a BF Coordinator to train and
 manage the peer counselor program, and handle the in-depth BF education, and
 help women trouble-shoot any BF problems, I don't think we can really expect
 those numbers to keep rising.

 Bitter? Moi? Not a bit of it - just saying what's true in my little corner >>


Or how about the Coordinator who was cut to 10 hrs/ week from 24 hrs/week
with a caseload of 840 clients. And then no one even says anything about how
the coordinator is doing a great job when she volunteers 10- 20 hrs/week to
try to keep the program running. Of course the coordinator called it quits
after 3 months of this abuse when the WIC director told her there was $15000
left over in a grant  and she had decided how to spend it-- on a clerk to
help do paperwork.  Not a PC, a clerk. With money from a grant for a PC
program.
Bitter, no , just very sad. ( OK maybe bitter!).
And the Moms will never know they aren't getting a BFing PC or a IBCLC, just
a clerk.


Barbara Whitehead, IBCLC
Eastern NC

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