I am hopping on this thread late ... only skimmed Lactnet during the past
weekend while I was away at the fantastic Lactation consultants in Private
Practice Conference.

IBCLCs, IBLCE and ILCA were all the brain-child of LLL, back in the day.
 The Leaders recognized that many mothers need *more* than the support of a
League Leader -- but there were no medical professionals with enough
specialized expertise in the cross-disciplinary role of BFg....esp. since
BFg is also about pubic health and parenting.

I heard Lactnet's own Diana Cassar-Uhl excellently frame this conversation
(of: which "direction" is the IBCLC profession taking).

She said our is an **evidence-based ** profession that was borne from the
wisdom of mothers.

That resonated with me.  Professionals in the fields of counseling,
nutrition, parenting/attachment, public health, mental health, physical and
speech therapies, feminism, social work [etc etc] **all** rely on
 evidence-based practice.  IBCLCs do too.  Ours is a field that requires a
little bit of all of these in the work we do with mothers and families.


Liz Brooks JD IBCLC FILCA
Wyndmoor, PA, USA

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