Vicky writes:

Bravo to  you LC pioneers, who must have done a good job to pave the way 
for more to  come. So LC's then worked in hospitals and lactation clinics 
perhaps came  along a little later? I wonder now, who were the first private 
practice LC's.  I gather lactation consulting was mostly about latch and weight 
gain in those  days and your handouts were LLLI, your textbook was...?
~~~ Fascinating stuff being shared. My older one was born in 1986. I had  
never heard of a lactation consultant, but there was a class being given in 
my  OB/midwifery practice about breastfeeding, by  two of them. No one in  my 
generation had breastfed, on my side, and only the two "odd" cousins ( one  
whose child nursed til 6) on my husband's. As a learner, of course I would 
take  a class.  I also read a well-liked book on pregnancy which I realized 
years  later had lousy breastfeeding info. The best part of the class itself 
was that  grandparents could come for free, and my in-laws came ( who lived 
very close in  those days.) So they heard what I heard from a source other 
than me. When my son  was born, there was no 24 hr rooming in, we missed the 
deadline and he was taken  away for the night. They were to bring him back 
every 4 hours, but I kept  asking, then falling asleep, and they brought him 
back 12 hours later, sleepy  from the formula my husband and I told them 
not to give him. There was a  "lactation nurse" who I never saw in the 36 
hours I was there over the  weekend. Going home with my formula fed baby( and my 
gift bag of formula,)  who refused to breastfeed, my husband suggested I 
call one of the women  from the class. Turned out they were local LLLLs as 
well, and answered  their phone on a Sunday. With her help, and by ignoring the 
 pediatrician's suggestion to give him 2 oz of formula after every nursing, 
 I expressed  with a little plastic Kaneson pump, and spoon  fed him until 
he was calm enough to get himself on. I think I was lucky  that I had no 
epidural, no pitocin, so he was alert, and  not overly agitated once I started 
the spoon feeds of EMM, and could catch  on. He also has a low broad palate 
so I think things fell into place more easily  for us, despite getting off 
to a horrible start.  Am so  grateful for those early IBCLC pioneers, and 
LLLI. 
 
Peace,
Judy

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