Subject: | |
From: | |
Reply To: | |
Date: | Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:49:33 -0400 |
Content-Type: | text/plain |
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
Jennifer Tow wrote:
"Maintaining the credential may do as much harm to breastfeeding as
the “childbirth education” model has done to childbirth. It was co-
opted by hospitals, became inculcated into the medical model and gave
women a false sense of their own level of preparedness and ability to
make choices in birth. I don’t think it needs to be fixed—I think it
needs to be torn down and rebuilt with a new premise—-with normal
physiological processes as the compass and a commitment to protect
them in an honest, ethical and educated way as the framework for a SOP."
I agree (and I think we all do) that supporting normal physiological
processes should be the cornerstone of our practice. But I would
like to see us use the infrastructure already in place in order to do
this. We need to make sure that IBCLCs are educated appropriately
and be very careful of who can earn this credential. At the same
time, we need to support the young breastfeeding advocate in becoming
an excellent IBCLC.
To me, saying we need to tear down the current system and rebuild it
from the ground up is the same as saying that we should just blow up
the world and rebuild it from scratch so that it can be the way we
want it. Obviously we are not going to do that. What we are doing
instead is helping mothers and babies one at a time. I want us to
help doctors, IBCLCs, hospitals, society, etc, one person at a time.
I respectfully ask you to consider this idea. I am afraid that
otherwise the public will get the message that we breastfeeding
advocates just don't know what we are doing with all this alphabet
soup of LLL, CLC, IBCLC, LE etc. IBCLC is just starting to be
recognized -- let's keep up that momentum but mold the process along
the way. At the very least, none of us want to waste our money and
our effort in gaining and maintaining our credential -- so let's
not. Let's take back the credential and work towards making it mean
what we want it to mean.
Respectfully,
Lynnette Hafken, IBCLC, RLC
***********************************************
Archives: http://community.lsoft.com/archives/LACTNET.html
Mail all commands to [log in to unmask]
To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail
To start it again: set lactnet mail (or [log in to unmask])
To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet or ([log in to unmask])
To reach list owners: [log in to unmask]
|
|
|