I have sent this note simultaneously to Lactnet and IBLCE.

I'm relieved to see on the IBLCE website (www.iblce.org) that our feedback
has prompted the Board to take another look at the Scope of Practice.
However, as the Scope of Practice now stands, it is not possible for me to
practice as an IBCLC and maintain my commitment to protecting breastfeeding,
nor to practicing ethically.  The website gives no indication of how soon we
can expect the next step to take place.  Is there some way that those of us
who no longer wish to be bound to this embarrassingly crippling document can
have an asterisk added beside our names on the IBLCE registry of certified
IBCLCs, appended to a note stating that we are voluntarily suspending our
status as IBCLCs until such time as the Scope of Practice has been brought
into line with IBLCE's own Code of Ethics?  For the record, I am not
requesting that the Code be amended to match the Scope of Practice, but the
other way around.

Since IBLCE's board is not directly accountable to individual IBCLCs, and
there is no annual meeting of any 'membership' since IBLCE as an entity
takes its board members from other organizations, the individual board
members are saved being ousted at an extraordinary meeting of the
organization.  But it is absolutely unbelievable that the document could get
as far as being posted on the website without anyone responsible for it
noticing that it would effectively prevent most of us from working.  We have
seen scopes of practice for a couple of other allied health professions, and
they contain nothing like the language requiring practitioners to be
complicit in outright malpractice; quite the opposite.  This is a sad day
for our profession.

Sincerely,
Rachel Myr, suddenly just a breastfeeding specialist midwife, 
Kristiansand, Norway

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