Nikki hates to "keep mum" in the face of a mother who has been given erroneous information from another health care provider.
 
Don't we all.
 
To the rescue:  our new IBLCE Scope of Practice for IBCLCs (downloadable at www.ible.org), which now gives us the *duty*, in upholding the standards of the IBCLC profession, to (amongst other things):
-- "integrat[e] knowledge and evidence when providing care for breastfeeding families ..."
-- "educat[e] women, families, health professionals and the ocmmunity about breastfeeding and human lactation"
-- "provide[e] holistic, evidence-based breastfeeding support and care, from preconception to weaning, for women and their families"
-- "wor[k] collaboratively and interdependently with other members of the health care team"
 
Repeat:  these are *duties.*
 
Which means we should all take it upon ourselves -- productively, professionally, and with our very best manners -- to inform mothers when they have been given poor advice, no matter how well-meaning the original intent.
Liz Brooks, JD, IBCLCWyndmoor, PA, USA
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