Kathy,
 
    I was not totally familiar with previous  comments.  I read when I can.  
There was no malice in my  statements--just the attempt to encourage younger 
LCs.  If I offended  you in any way there was no attempt to do so.
 
 

Debbie  Albert, RN, Ph.D., IBCLC, RLC
Tampa Lactation Counseling
Tampa, FL  




In a message dated 1/22/05 6:21:51 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
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Debbie wrote
"Still,  I notice that when I go to  workshops, there are=20
not a lot  of newcomers.  As one of my  colleagues stated, "There's a lot =
of =20
gray hair in this  room!"
=20
New blood is good.  It brings new ideas  and  innovations, and it=20
invigorates our spirits!"

I don't  think the comments that have been made are about longer time =
IBCLCs  trying to eat the newer IBCLCs. I am one who has made some of =
these  comments and that is not at all what I see or meant. When I attend  =
conferences, I see the gray hair, too, and I don't see the newly  =
accredited IBCLCs that I know in attendance. Of course, we need new  =
blood, of course. That is not the point of the comments people had made  =
before.=20

Kathy A. Eng, BSW, IBCLC
 
 

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