I know it has been discussed before, but have any new ideas been thought of?
 I see the Registered Lactation Consultant as one positive step.

Certification is available in many areas from accounting to technology.
Licensing is available for many fields from cosmetology to massage therapy to
nursing and medicine.

I doubt any one word or set of words will make the fix and some might cause
more problems than solutions.  I wonder if it would be possible to set
guidelines more realistically for what other credential certificates can do.
Is that possible?

I am not condemning organizations for offering courses and even a certificate
at the end.  I just would like what the certificate stands for to be better
defined according to IBCLC standards of lactation practice.  Is this
possible?

This discussion always interests me. I want IBCLC to be the "Gold Standard"
it is, but I don't want to disrespect other ways of supporting breastfeeding.
 I just worry about the same things I have been reading here. . .mothers
don't know, the public does not know, and IBCLC's are getting grouped
together with less qualified certification standards in the minds of the
people who deserve to know the difference.

Pam MazzellaDiBosco

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