Dear Yael and Lactnetters
I am devastated that you Yael were told that you could not recertify with us 
because requirements had changed.  As founder of the Israel Childbirth 
Education Centre, I would like to know who gave you such incorrect 
information and to invite you to contact me if you need any help.
Because of recognition issues with our Ministry of Health, only IBCLC 
counsellors can tutor our breastfeeding courses now, but this does not 
disqualify counsellors trained by other recognised organizations.  Our 
organization welcomes multi-disciplinary counsellors and if somebody was 
trained and lapsed for some time we need you to come back. I personally was 
trained by the National Childbirth Trust of the UK and consider that their 
in-depth focus on counselling skills and the art of listening as well as the 
technical information is as good as if not better than any other system or 
organization I have experienced internationally.  NCT does not train by 
remote control and one cannot get an NCT certification by distance learning 
and it was for this reason that we founded the Israeli sister organization 
and started our own training programme so that we could continue the NCT 
philosophy and principles here.
I have been in New York for three weeks visiting our kids and many of my 
e-mails got deleted or were not sent because my server had some problems.  I 
did get some Lacnet postings but if anyone sent me something personally and 
did not get a reply, please try again.  And I will repeat a posting I sent 
while I was away to inform Lactnetters that
we have our 25th birthday conference in conjunction with Shape of YMCA in 
Jerusalem on November 7th.  Anyone who will be in Israel at that time is 
welcome.
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Wendy Blumfield
NCT BFC/Tutor Prenatal Teacher
Hon. President Israel Childbirth Education Centre

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yael Edelstein" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:15 PM
Subject: IBLC cerification


>I have been following the reaction to the SOP with much interest. I am no
> t
> a LC, nor a LLL; years ago I qualified as a BC with the Israel Childbirth
>
> Education Association, a daughter organization of the National Childbirth
>
> Trust of England. Due to health reasons I let my certificate lapse, only
>
> to find that I couldn't re-qualify because they'd changed the
> requirements. Simply, I don't have a college degree.
> I continued to advise, read journals, and go to courses, workshops and
>
> seminars. I consistently refer up when I see I'm over my head.
> Two years ago, when my youngest child went to school I hoped to become an
>
> IBLC but the requirements for documented hours for a person without a
> degree were impossible for me to fill anytime in the reasonable future. I
>
> am a writer and I lecture occasionally  and I cannot volunteer instead of
>
> working.
> While I can appreciate that the IBLC needs to maintain a high level of
>
> professionalism in order to garner points in the world of modern medicine
> ,
> I wonder at what point you lose more than you gain.
> I am just the kind of person the IBLC has succeed in keeping out of the
>
> profession. I would be sorry to see all of you wonderful people leave.
>
> Yael Edelstein
>
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