If it's my book and you find glaring errors, please email me, so that we 
can fix it in the next printing or next edition.

Linda Smith did a fabulous job of explaining how errors wind up in text 
books. Another way that errors occur is that research is not perfect. It 
is very difficult to do good research, and the questions we ask are 
culturally determined. (See The Missing Moment by Robert Pollack). Often 
while doing research we learn things that require us to start over. This 
has actually happened to me...Several years ago I followed over 100 
dyads with tongue-tie, and learned that the outcomes were often poorer 
for the babies with partial tongue-ties than those with obvious "type 1" 
or "100%" ones. That meant starting all over again, observing for things 
I learned in the initial study.

There is also very little published research on many of the things we 
lactation consultants are interested in.

And then the time that goes into preparing a book (mine took 2 years) 
requires seeing fewer clients, and that can interrupt the learning curve 
too.

Catherine Watson Genna, IBCLC  NYC

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