Nina says:
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As I see  it, the question is should IBCLCs and others concerned with the
protection  promotion and support of breastfeeding have commercial
relationships with  code violators? >>
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Nina,
 
Are you suggesting that all IBCLCs in the US that are  employed by hospitals, 
WIC clinics, pediatrician's offices, and the like, quit  their jobs?
 
That is what I am reading into your post.  
 
As I said in a previous post, virtually all hospitals, peds  offices, OB 
offices and WIC clinics are Code violators. 
 
If we are not to have "commercial relationships" with code  violators, then 
that is what you are implying.
 
What will happen to all those mothers and babies?  
 
I can get a lot done without having a relationship with  Medela, who, when it 
comes to Code violations is a minor player in the scheme of  things in the 
US.  Visit almost any US hospital, clinic, physician's office  (present company 
excepted, I'm sure), and you will see Code violations up the  wazoo.  
 
I do not think that quitting my job (for a peds office), or  leaving a 
hospital, or ceasing to work for a WIC clinic is in the best interest  of mothers 
and babies -- nor for myself or my family.
 
Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC, FILCA
_www.lactationeducationconsultants.com_ 
(http://www.lactationeducationconsultants.com)  
 
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