Dear Friends,
I realize from responses that I have received that my earlier post
requesting resources to give to my professors in nursing school gives a
skewed picture of nursing education in the country.  My post refers
specifically to two professors who I had who are not nurses themselves and
not working with mothers and babies.  I  have several amazing professors,
nurses, IBCLCs teaching gynecology, maternity, lactation, pregnancy...I
haven't had those courses yet but Cultural Competence was taught by an
IBCLC, an expert in the field of culturally appropriate health care, and
was fantastic! My nutrition professor (not an IBCLC)  taught us about such
diseases as kwashiorkor, and pointed out repeatedly that these diseases of
malnutrition begin when the baby is no longer breastfed.  When asked by a
student if she should skim the milk off of her expressed milk before giving
it to her baby (we were learning the dangers of fat) she responded by
saying that breastmilk is the perfect food for the baby and not to mess
with it. Our sociology professor, used abm advertising in several examples
of big money trumping public health interests.
  In fact, in recent years, the Israeli ministry of health, decided that
all postpartum women must have a proper breastfeeding consult while in the
hospital. In order to make this happen, a course was created to train
nurses working with postpartum mothers (in the community as well in the
hospital) to be able to really help with breastfeeding.  One of my
instructors to be, RN, MA IBCLC, had a huge part in putting the course
together for the ministry of health and teaches it in the same school where
I study. The course is based on the ILCA core competencies.  So there is
some really good breastfeeding education going on, for nurses, by nurses.
Please take my last post for what it was - a rant about 2 of my instructors
who definitely need to be educated about the risks of not breastfeeding and
a request for help with resources - which you've come through with -
thanks!  I'm very proud of where I am studying and despite my loyalty to my
own school - I know that mine is not the only one in the country offering
great education.
Breastfeeding rates have gone up in Israel  - we're doing something right.
Thanks to those of you who sent me resources,
All the best,
Chayn Fogelman, BA, IBCLC and proudly working towards my RN (at 45 years
old!)
in Israel

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