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Fri, 11 Feb 2000 10:06:01 PST
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To the person who wondered about how to get ibclc hours: someone suggested
LLL leadership (I think the person was already LLL member) and that is a
good suggestion. However, get in touch with IBLCE not ILCA for details.
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Also the person may want to do peer counseling via WIC or maybe a hospital
in her area has a peer program. I have a friend who took the Breastfeeding
Support Consultants (BSC) program which is an excellent distance learning
(home study like) program. There are other intense programs as well. This
friend then linked up with her own pediatrician to provide breastfeeding
counseling to his clients free of charge, with his supervision and support,
and she documented the hours. I think this still meets criteria, though I
think in the future clinical hours will have to be supervised by an ibclc.
This friend is now ibclc and in private practice. I am a nurse and when I
went to graduate school in 1987 I tailored my program in parent-child health
to lactation and child development. My clinical hours were spent at 2 sites
working specifically with lactation and I was mentored by 2 ladies who were
master's prepared nurses (a requirement in my program) and also ibclc. These
sites exposed me to a breastfeeding center, inpatient newborn, outpatients
all ages, bf community and inpatient classes, level 3 nicu, inpatient
pediatrics, and we did some work with public health. In the future,
lactation preparation will be more formalized but in the meantime get
creative and try to expose yourself to all areas of lactation practice. Good
luck.

Laurie Wheeler, RN, MN, IBCLC
Violet Louisiana, s.e. USA

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