I am sorry, but I see no reason to rejoice in the removal of the  
recently posted SOP from the IBLCE website. Statements have been made  
that the SOP took two years and that IBCLCs were consulted and that  
ILCA was consulted. Yet ILCA claims little power and I have yet to  
hear from an IBCLC who was consulted.  We are all sitting here  
patiently waiting for a revision (well, not all of us are patient),  
but I want to know why we are accepting the very premise that the  
IBLCE has assigned itself the authority to write a SOP at all. Who  
made this decision and if it is a valid decision (I am not at all  
sure who decides that either), why now and why was it done in such a  
way as to invalidate those of us from non-medical backgrounds?

This is a house that must be torn down and rebuilt from the ground  
up, not just given a new coat of paint. I do have respect for how  
difficult this type of document is to draft, but as this was done so  
poorly the first time, shouldn't it be done in a completely different  
way and perhaps by completely different people this time. I would  
like to see IBCLCs from all different backgrounds and regions  
involved as well as holistic practitioners and those who would  
represent the standard of care in non-US countries.

The most obviously related profession I can find in the US is the  
Certified Professional Midwife.
If you look at their organizational structure, you can see that the  
certifying body has its own ethics statements, but certainly does not  
devise SOP.

http://www.narm.org/

http://www.nacpm.net/documents/nacpm_ratified_dec04.pdf

http://www.mana.org/

I love this model, especially as it validates multiple routes of  
entry and sees the physiologic norm as its foundation.
Jennifer Tow

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