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"Susan E. Burger" <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:00:24 -0400
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The subject of IBCLE requirements is a bit of a sore point for me becuase
my supervisor was under the impression that I would be able to count 2
hours for every one of my supervised practice. I would have been able to
sit for the exam a year earlier but for this fact.  I was 300 hours short.
When I looked at the Blueprints Requirements, I found I had already
completed just about everything on the list - just not under their program.
I have to admit some people suggested I stretch the hours and I did not.
I'm glad I didn't because I continued to learn during that next year and
ended up with tons more hours than the requirement.  What may have been an
inconvenience to me is actually setting a professional standard that is
upheld in many other professions. We'd all like to think that there is
something special about our background that may be more important - but it
is the synergy of the varied backgrounds that will, in the end, return us
to a state where breastfeeding is practiced the way it was intended.

Finally, I have to say that the person I have learned the most from in the
shortest amount of time comes from a completely different background.  She
was a classics instructor at a very well regarded private school before
becoming an IBCLC. She's my colleague and while are not partners in the
strict business sense, we routinely discuss cases in detail and in so
doing, question almost everything and how we would research new ideas. We
go in a group to as many conferences as we can manage and dissect the
information afterwards.  I was reading one of the brochures for one of the
kindergartens that we are looking at for our son - and the term "passionate
inquiry" popped out at me. This is what my colleague offers and this is
what I wish for all of us.

Looking at breastfeeding management should not be an "I know it all
already" experience. It should be, wow, there is so much to learn and so
much that remains unexplored.

Susan Burger

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