In a message dated 2/22/02 12:47:40 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:

<< <<The whole idea of lactation consulting as a university degree program
also suggests that many more people will become LC's, never having had or bf
children. How might that impact on the profession? More medicalized? More
theoretical? Less empathic, mother-to-mother?>>


I wanted to respond to this because I have known 2 wonderful IBCLC's who were
unsuccessful at breastfeeding their own children.  >>

Marsha,
Please read what I wrote. I am speaking in reference to a degree program,
which suggests that women might well enter it before even being at a point in
their lives when they might have children. I know there are excellent LC's
who have not bf (Jay Gordon, for example), just as there are excellent
midwives who have not had children and excellent male OBs (okay, I only know
one, but I'm sure there are more) and so on. What I was lamenting was the
likelihood that there would be a far greater proportion of these LC's in
relation to mothers who have bf, especially those with a LLL background, than
there are today.
Jennifer Tow, IBCLC, CT, USA

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