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I am in the same position.  I am not a health professional, and hoped to sit the exam eventually.  To do that now, I would have to do a nursing degree - with the expense and time that brings with it, and the demands of a young family - that dream has now receded WAY off into the future, perhaps into impossibility.

Anita
Breastfeeding Counsellor
Australian Breastfeeding Association.

On 08/08/2011, at 12:53 PM, Amy West wrote:

> Well said, Jennifer.
> 
> And hey, I'm American, living in the US, and the new requirements
> effectively ended my prospects for taking the exam. The vast change in
> requirements is a worldwide problem, as far as I'm concerned.
> 
> Amy
> Amy West, CLC (who was 165 clinical hours toward sitting the exam via
> Pathway 3 when the requirements changed and my mentor opted not to
> recertify, leaving me mentor-less and ending my plan to sit the exam in
> 2011. Hence the 'CLC' after my name, that will likely never expand to
> 'IBCLC' after the change in requirements between 2011 & 2012!)

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