Hi Sharon,
Are you able to share about some of the work you were involved in. I am sure 
that many on Lactnet would really like to hear about it.
Karleen Gribble
Australia

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From: "Sharon Craig Economides" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 12:29 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [LACTNET] IBCLCs in Haiti.

> I am a Licensed Midwife and IBCLC and just returned from Haiti.  I led the
> first team of women's healthcare providers with Circle of Health
> International (www.cohintl.org), we were a team of midwives/lactation
> consultants, nurses and now a pediatrician and epidemiologist (who is 
> doing
> a Rapid Health Assessment of the internally displaced peoples).  COHI's
> mission is to provide capacity building of women's healthcare 
> professionals
> in crisis settings.  We are set up at a pre-existing general and maternity
> clinic in Fond Parisien, Haiti, near the Dominican Republic.  Many 
> patients
> are coming from Port-au-Prince who are internally displaced peoples.  The
> team providing patient care alongside Haitian nurses and doctors have seen
> many prenatal and postpartum women and have supported several postpartum
> mothers who had discontinued breastfeeding "due to stress and 
> malnutrition".
>
>
> I just wanted to let you know that there are IBCLCs as well as other
> maternity providers working on the ground in Haiti with mother/baby dyads 
> to
> preserve the breastfeeding relationship and to help with relactation.
>
> Best,
> Sharon
>
> Sharon Craig Economides, LM, CPM, MMid, IBCLC
>
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