Mary-Jane

I think what the course involves and entails is more important than 
the credentials/initials you receive after taking the class.  I took 
an amazing lactation educator program and felt that that prepared me 
very well for the work I do (teach prenatal classes), but another 
colleague of mine took a CLC class and she felt she didn't get much 
out of it because it didn't really go beyond the training she already 
has as a postpartum doula.  She's already said she isn't going to 
bother to recertify with that same organization.

Thinking of my certification as a childbirth educator, some trainings 
are more rigorous and help prepare you more for the work you will do 
after the training.  Others require the participants to do the 
minimal amount of work to get the credentials.  The husband of one of 
my CBE friends took the "certification exam" offered by a regional 
childbirth education certification program and he passed.  Now that 
either says he pays very close attention to the work his wife does :) 
or the certification was too easy.

Laura Mundt, MA, ICCE
Portland, OR

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