Cindy says,
 
Jan - I was at the first exam in 1985, given at Georgetown University  
before the La Leche League International Conference held in DC that year. I  
didn't realize/remember it was also given in CA. 
 
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Maybe I'm misremembering since  I didn't take the exam until 1987 in 
Chicago.  Perhaps it was given just in  DC in 1985 and in San Diego in 1986. Those 
things you think you will remember  forever -- you don't.  Sigh.
 
As to gadgets:  Medela  and Ameda were around then.  We had gadgets -- not 
as many as today, but we  had pumps -- Medela's 015 and Ameda's "Grannie" 
(gosh, I don't even remember the  name of the big silver one that Medela's was 
so similar to).  We had the  Lactaid.  The SNS wasn't too far behind.  I 
made my own with my son  (the reason I'm a lactation consultant) which was a 
feeding tube I got from the  hospital hooked to a syringe with rubber bands 
around it pinned to my  shirt.  I then took the idea to Medela and asked them 
to make what I called  "the poor man's supplementer" -- and voila, out of 
that came the starter  SNS.  I currently use a 36 in 5 Fr. feeding tube and a 
30 ml syringe  without the plunger if I want to use a feeding tube at the 
breast, having given  up on most gadgets entirely except for pumps.  I have 
less gadgets now than  I did when I started in private practice.
 
Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC,  FILCA

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