Debbie wrote
"Still,  I notice that when I go to workshops, there are 
not a lot  of newcomers.  As one of my colleagues stated, "There's a lot of  
gray hair in this room!"
 
    New blood is good.  It brings new ideas and  innovations, and it 
invigorates our spirits!"

I don't think the comments that have been made are about longer time IBCLCs trying to eat the newer IBCLCs. I am one who has made some of these comments and that is not at all what I see or meant. When I attend conferences, I see the gray hair, too, and I don't see the newly accredited IBCLCs that I know in attendance. Of course, we need new blood, of course. That is not the point of the comments people had made before. 

Kathy A. Eng, BSW, IBCLC

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