No disagreement from me with any of this Liz!
Karleen Gribble
Australia
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From: "Liz Brooks" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 10:48 AM
Subject: getting paid


Yes, Karleen -- lots of mother-to-mother counselors know lots about 
lactation.  I was one of them, too, before I decided to sit the IBLCE exam 
after 8 years as a mother-to-mother counselor (who regularly referred to 
IBCLCs when I felt a case was out of my league).  And I would be offended if 
someone had suggested to me then (as now) that I don't know my field.

I am equally irked when someone suggests that I should expect to offer my 
professional services for free, because I once provided a related service on 
a volunteer basis.

Lactation professionals fall on the Bell Curve -- just like anything else 
that can be measured.  Some of us are great, some of us are lousy, and most 
of us fall in the middle somewhere. Same is true of mother-to-mother 
counselors, pediatricans, midwives ... lawyers, clergy, plumbers and 
florists.  We are merely human.Liz Brooks, JD, IBCLCWyndmoor, PA, USA
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