Barbara,

Thank you for your down to earth insight. It reminds me (for those of  
you who are Star Trek fans) of the line "The good of the many  
outweighs the good of the few, or the one."

If our aim is to have babies accepted everywhere, I guess it is up to  
us to change the "real world." It appears that we will have to think  
outside the box.

Nicole Bernshaw, MSc, IBCLC

There are 4000 species of mammals, each one making and feeding milk  
specific for their babies. Humans are the only species that feed milk  
from another species to their babies. Adapted from Breastfeeding in  
the Presence of Infections. Ruth Lawrence. Gold10 conference.

>
> Date:    Tue, 1 Jun 2010 21:25:00 -0400
> From:    Barbara Ash <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: IBLCE Exam and breastfeeding
>
>
> Accommodation, and reasonable accommodations, ... When do the  
> expected accommodations
> for one trump the expected, traditionally defined environment of the
> majority?
>
> ... when the questions are answered ... it is incumbant upon the
> minority party to accept them. Or not, and walk away ... focus on  
> the 'what about our
> collective needs' mentality and realize that sometimes you have to  
> suck it
> up for the good of the whole.  Offering patchwork solutions ...  
> won't work ... because
> everybody thinks their  situation is special and they deserve to be
> accommodated exactly as they see fit.  The real world doesn't work  
> that
> way.
>
> Barbara Ash, IBCLC
> Burke, VA


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