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> From: werrell <[log in to unmask]>
> To: millie <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: healthcare professionals?
> Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 1:53 PM
>
> Millie,
> Effecting change from the outside is always harder than nudging it along
> from the inside.  In order to get "inside" LC's must become established
> respected members of the health care team.  I would much rather educate
> parents and other healthcare providers to prevent common breastfeeding
> problems than deal with the train wrecks that I currently encounter
because
> of "bad" breastfeeding advice and protocols.  So I am working very hard
to
> become a member of the team.  Like I said before if you have the
> credentials and expertiese to be a Lactation Consultant be it paid or
> unpaid than proudly call yourself one.  If you don't have the above call
> yourself something else, its that simple.  Don't stop helping moms and
> trying to change your little corner of the world, there is room under the
> tent for all of us to do our part. I am hearing a lot of really defensive
> dialogue going on here and fighting amongst our selves only aids the
> "enemy"  United we stand, divided we fall.  however there will always be
> levels of expertise and training as there are in most professions.  While
I
> enjoy being the teacher I have not lost sight of the fact that I will
> always be a student of this field.  Hope this answers your questions.
>
> Lori Werrell, IBCLC
> Leonardtown MD
> will be co-chairing the first meeting of the St.Mary's Hospital
> Breastfeeding Task Force tomorrow, wish me luck!
> ----------
> > From: millie <[log in to unmask]>
> > To:
> > Subject: healthcare professionals?
> > Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 1:01 AM
> >
> > <Oooo Jay, I touched a nerve there didn't I? Sorry, but if we want to
be
> >
> > accepted as allied health professionals we have to prepare and keep up
> > in
> > the same ways that they do.  We can't have it both ways.>
> > I would question that all breastfeeding counselors, even women who pass
> > the IBLCE, have a desire to be "allied health professionals."
> > <if you choose not to take the exam or charge for services fine but
> > respect
> > that there are those of us trying very hard to survive in the
> > professional
> > world and all the confusion about what an LC really is within our own
> > field
> > doesn't help one bit.>
> > What about women who have taken the IBLCE and remain volunteers?  Or
lay
> > midwives who take the IBLCE to better assist their midwifery clients?
> > How do these women fall into your ranking?
> > As I was becoming a LLLL, I was bothered by the emphasis placed on
> > distinctions between  members, leader applicants, and leaders.  It
makes
> > me sad to see this same tendency within the lactation consultant
> > community--are you a "lactation consultant" or just a lay breastfeeding
> > counselor?  I wonder if this emphasis on hierarchy is mirroring the
> > mainstream medical community?  Is this really something we want to
> > emulate?  We spent over 100 years turning childbirth into a medical
> > event, because of those few women who required medical
intervention--and
> > are just beginning to turn this around.  I wonder if
acceptance/prestige
> > within the medical community should  be a major goal of lactation
> > professionals?  Will this lead to further medicalization of infant
> > feeding?.
> > I have considered taking the IBLCE, but I have no desire to become an
> > allied health professional.  I just want to be an expert at
> > breastfeeding.
> > This is my first post to Lactnet, after lurking for a couple of months.
> > I have tried to phrase all this as humbly as I can, so please treat
> > lightly in your responses.
> > Millie Adelsheim
> > http://www.peapods.com
> >

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