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ruthy wilson rn ibclc <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 10 May 1997 01:23:36 -0400
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        a local mom i "helped" breastfeed all of 5 weeks but quit anyway,
likes the way it feels to "help" other moms she meets.....she has attended
one LLL meeting and wants now to be a Lactation Consultant, she has money
so she's going to take  TWO yes (2) one week "courses" that guarantee her a
CERTIFICATE" to be a CLC (after she takes the post conference TEST) so
she's sent off to a pump company, is getting her home based business going
and she calls me asking to come to my office and shadow me and teach her
all the ways to start her own BUSINESS as an LC ( she was  a dental
hygenist) she wants me to show her all the "ins and outs of a rental-LC
business......now I consider my self a pretty tolerant person and pretty
easily "walked all over" and I "trained" another LC: gave her my forms so
she could open her own "shop" all at the only remuneration of taking away
clients...i still  have my reputation but have lost out on potential
revenue........

SOooooooooooo, do I roll out the red carpet and let her stick it to me or
do i kindly say get lost?

I really don't want to be sour grapes but HOW can a mom who couldn't tuff
it for the simple scenario of colic-oversupply go to a couple of week
courses go to a SINGLE LLL mtg and an area conference and hang out her
CERTIFIED LACTATION CONSULTANT SHINGLE  and get away with it? ( am i angry?
NOOOOOOOOO not me!) I have  a PROBLEM with this and I need to call her back
soon I have put her off long enough but I am pretty stressed these days and
want to be gracious....HELP!  What is it with these INSTANT CLC courses
anyway are we cranking them out like rabbits?  if so many are going to
consider a CLC as a "profesional" regardless of her experience what is this
going to do for the professionalism we have worked so hard for in
ILCA-IBCLC-FLCA

Ps how much should I charge her for  a business consult what is the going rate?
by the hour or the day? we are in Podunk FLA....
thank you for the catharsis even if you have no ideas......ruthy

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