After 30+ years in MCH, and recently sending in all the materials  (!) and 
money (!) for IBCLC recertification, (15 years), I am taking a  break from 
hospital LC work. The service at the hospital has expanded greatly in  the past few 
years and is well staffed, I left the weeky Bf moms group in  good hands.
 
Needing a change of scenery I took a PRN job a short 12 minute commute  from 
my home, in Occupational Health, ...same pay 
 
The health care system I work for did a very good job retaining me by  
helping me find a job within the system that met my criteria: something  different 
and interesting, no weekends, evenings, or holidays, closer to  home.
 
This new job also happens to have no hospital committees, ....no worry  about 
mothers and babies, ...no annoyance about parents making bad feeding  
decisions in spite of copious "customer service excellence focused" lactation  
service efforts and support, ...no guilt over not working extra hours and days,  
..no car-jammed commute, no parking problems, no staying late to see  just a 
couple more desperate pts or to respond to desperate staff. None of the  other 
intense, stressful, hospital-based issues.
 
Just needed a break from all that. 
 
I have a feeling that other LCs have been through this phase.
 
Correct?
 

Debbie  Tobin
RN BSN IBCLC LCCE
_www.BestBreastfeeding.info_ (http://www.BestBreastfeeding.info) 

Fairfax County, Virginia suburbs outside the  Washington DC beltway

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