OR say to the mother,
> "This looks like a duck. It swims like a duck. It quacks like a duck. It flies like a duck. Mother, you may do your own research or discuss with other providers whether this is in fact a duck, this is your baby!"
Karleen Gribble
Australia
> So I characterize it this way. Got a hot button clinical sitauiton you are
> seeing? Think tongue-tie, or hormonal birth control. Your charting, or
> report to the primary HCP will say, "This looks like a duck. It swims like
> a duck. It quacks like a duck. It flies like a duck. Primary HCP, can you
> tell us: Is this a duck? [or] Primary HCP, can you please rule out a duck
> as a description of this thing?"
>
> If you are using your extensive powers of observation and description about
> what you SEE, including even your hints as to what it might BE, but you
> leave the actual "labeling" to the folks whom we know *currently* to have
> that role, then we are all practicing ethically, legally, and within our
> current IBCLC Scope of Practice.
>
> --
> Liz Brooks, JD, IBCLC, FILCA
> Wyndmoor, PA, USA
> Secretary, U.S. Breastfeeding Cmte (2014-16)
> Director, Human Milk Banking Assn of North America (2015-18)
> Adjunct Professor, Drexel Univ, Public Policy of Breastfeeding (2016)
> "IBCLCs empower women and save babies' lives!"-Ursuline Singleton
>
>
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