Hi everyone,

Thanks to those of you who responded last time on and off post refuting the
claims that there was research to support that angry mothers make toxic
milk. On goes our adventure in China, this time, a China Daily article in
English outrageously translates/equates breast masseurs with lactation
consultants/experts!  Called Cuirushi in Chinese, the breast massager is a
kind of informal traditional profession that is learned in a few days by
apprenticeship usually by women of low education levels.  There is no
standard of certification or governing body and is in fact discouraged by
the Ministry of Health.

They then hang out at obstetric hospitals handing out their cards and
propagating the false belief that milk pores must be opened postpartum by
their massage techniques or else milk won't flow and the mom will not have
enough milk for her baby. Literally, the term Cuirushi means lactation
inductionist. Most of them lack ethics and usually hide some lint and gunk
in their hand to show moms what they massaged out of the mom's milk pores
in order to justify their services and make mothers feel dependent on them.

Not only are they expensive (10-20% of an average city dwellers' monthly
salary) but many moms breast tissues have been severely injured by their
often excruciating massage techniques.  The vast majority of them do not
know the basics of lactation and lactation management.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2012-11/21/content_15946440.htm

The author's email address is listed at the end of the article, and there
is a place to post comments. Please join us to request that they revise the
translation and remove the references to lactation consultants and
lactation experts in this extremely misleading article that can only serve
to confuse people. Or, ask the paper to delete this article.  In fact in
all of China, I only know of five IBCLCs, but this article makes it sound
like there is some kind of lactation revolution going on with LCs being so
popularly demanded and used. In so many ways, this article is misleading.

If you tweet, please help by tweeting about this, thank you!

Sincerely,
Ivy Makelin
Beijing, China
LLL Leader, IBCLCS



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