In a message dated 1/5/02 9:07:25 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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> So you wise women with the credentials, call your local midwifery school,
> there's one in Seattle WA and Manchester, NH and Bridgeton, Maine and San
> Francisco and New Haven and ask them if you can teach their breastfeeding
> course
>
> There is also a School of Certified Nurse MIdwifery at East Carolina
> University in Greenville NC. For two years they invited me in to teach a 4
> hr bfing course, and then the instructors changed and they decided to ask
> the Nurse/Lactation Specialist at our local hospital to teach the class. I
> continually am banging my head against the wall trying to get them to
> understand the difference between a RN with a 2 day Bfing Educator course
> attendance and an IBCLC. And especailly frustrating is the faact that Ed
> Newton, son of Niles Newton, and a member of the Academy of Breastfeeding
> Medicine is chair of the OB/GYN program here and he doesn't even have an
> IBCLC teaching any of his residents!
>
> Barb Whitehead, IBCLC
> Eastern NC

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