Bravo to you LC pioneers, who must have done a good job to pave the way for more to come. So LC's then worked in hospitals and lactation clinics perhaps came along a little later? I wonder now, who were the first private practice LC's. I gather lactation consulting was mostly about latch and weight gain in those days and your handouts were LLLI, your textbook was...?
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:05:44 -0400
>From: Jan Barger <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: First lactation consultants
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>Vicki asks:
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>you must not be talking about America, Alla. I was a newborn nursery nurse
>in the early 70's and and we supplemented the babies with Similac, I
>believe it was, premixed and also glucose water. Not powder. When were the first
>lactation consultants?
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>The first lactation consultants (known as that) were in the early '80's.
>Chele Marmet and Ellen Shell's course in Encino CA, the UCLA program in LA
>with Sandra Steffes and Kittie Frantz and Judi Lauwer's Breastfeeding
>Support Consultant's home study course were among the very first programs out
>there. The IBLCE exam and the first ILCA conference were both in 1985 at the
>del Coronado in San Diego, though people were "certified" through their
>courses before the IBLCE exam began. Pat Bull was the first lactation
>consultant (so designated) in Illinois -- she had taken UCLA's first CLC (and
>then it meant "certified lactation consultant" in 1982. She moved to IL and
>started a private practice in 1983, where I joined her in early 1985.
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>That was back in the day when people were still saying, "a WHAT? Location
>consultant? You work in real estate?"
>
>Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC, FILCA
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>Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:29:03 -0400
>From: Alla Gordina <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Other Times
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>On 4/10/2013 2:46 AM, vicky york wrote:
>> you must not be talking about America, Alla.
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>You are right, I am talking about Moscow (then Soviet Union).
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>Alla
>Alla Gordina, MD, IBCLC, FAAP
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