Dear Friends:
    I agree with Ellen Shein. And I would add one  more thing to her thoughts
about reasons that people want and give the ONE  answer. The mutiple choice
test, by which most people are examined, encourages  this type of thought.The
multiple choice test wants the one answer.
    I saw this with my children in school, particularly  with my youngest who
would read a question in a workbook and have a brilliant,  logical process to
arrive at an answer that made complete sense...........yet it  wasn't the one
that the teacher/workbook wanted.
    I hear it in Sam Doak's schoolwork to become a  nurse,as she learns the
important skill of picking the one "right" answer that  is also completely
inaccurate. In the US, most IBCLCs are  nurses.........when our basic training
sets up our mental processes, it takes  maturity and openness and experience to
realize that when working with people,  there is often  more than one answer.
    On a personal note, I am still surprised with  my own narrow thinking
when I encounter an "out of the box" response that  wakes me up. This is another
reason we need collaborative  networks of  professionals from all disciplines,
so that we may be kept out of ruts!
    warmly,

Nikki Lee RN, BSN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
craniosacral  therapy practitioner, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania USA
_www.myspace.com/adonicalee


In a message dated 4/20/2008 2:56:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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I find  that there are more and more IBCLC's doing just that - making
blanket  statements and using just one way to show a new mom how to
breastfeed her  baby. I fear that this comes from a lack of clinical
experience. It comes  from some HCP's who never really got it right - and
ALWAYS did things a  certain way.

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