I absolutly agree with you. there is quite a difference between how things could work more effiecently in a hospital and give better care to the mothers if we as lactation consultants were used as consultants. the nurses (i am also a nurse) should be held to a standard ,to work in the hospital with nursing mothers, to give them the best care and information and assistance you can. it should be evidence based practice and not the way the individual nurse may want to teach or what she believes or her way of doing it. i work in a very big hospital with approximately 8500 deliveries a year and we only have 3 ibclc's plus our secretary/office manager is now ibclc. as you stated so well since there are so few of us we should be used for the difficult or problem situation and teaching. hopfully i will one day see such a change. anna heh *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html