<< You're telling it like I remember seeing it, Diane. Good for you. Though
 the LC community has benefitted from all the wonderful 1-on-1 time
 private LC's have been able to spend with clients, and the "non-tech"
 view of mothering so often espoused, many of them have never spent 8
 hours consistently in the "real world(view) of a NICU. It might even be
 said that they are spoiled. >>

it is not necessary to be a nurse to be an lc. some might even say it is an
advantage. and if, as a nurse, my hospital expected me to slight some aspect
of care in order to provide other aspects of care, i would object. unless i
did not truly believe that the things being slighted were important enough.

would you change how a baby got oxygen just to make it easier for the staff,
if it could be shown ('evidence based") that the alternative method of
delivering the oxygen caused long-term problems? no. but change the oxygen to
breastmilk and somehow . . . some way . . . the picture changes. it is *not*
as important and apologies are not even made for breastfeeding being
shortchanged, it is just "the reality of the world." how did this happen? i
can't live in that world. i can change it, though. i don't work in that world
officially, but i can educate, support and empower. and it will change.

carol brussel IBCLC

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