Thanks, Joy Anderson, for an informative post about the health care delivery
system for new mothers and young children in Australia, and how it relates to
IBCLC practice there.  The organization of care is much the same here
(Scandinavia) but without the private practice LCs.  There are at present no
IBCLCs seeing mothers here in Norway who are not also health visitors or
midwives.

Had to laugh when I saw this part:
"Now I have probably put my foot in it, but in my experience this is
the way we generally work here."

So, to my questions: Do you 'generally' HAVE to work with your feet because
you are down there on the underside of the planet hanging on for dear life?
Do you have marsupial-style feet so it's easier to use them for helping
mothers, for example in teaching 'manual' expression?  Or is this just a
cultural thing, one that any of us could learn, and maybe lots of you who
attended ILCA this summer already have learned it?  Too bad there were no
tapes; I would have loved to have seen how Jean Cotterman's RPS works using
the lower extremity to do the pressure.  I'm only now realizing just how much
I missed by not coming.

Rachel Myr
still working manually in the Northern Hemisphere

Joy

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