Correction: Everyone *in the USA* is hypervigilant about lawsuits. ILCA is International, or should be, IBCLC carries the I of International in it. Do all LC's around the world have to suffer from the American paranoia on lawsuits and get hand-tied in their work? It simply is impossible to be a good LC within this SoP, unrealistic and surely not protective of anyone. It harms the mother-baby dyad that seeks help, it harms the medical profession that can uncorrected stand in stupidness re breastfeeding and it harms LCs that cannot do what they have studied to do.
   
  Warmly,
  Gonneke, still IBCLC, but wondering, LLLL in again sunny southern Netherlands

"Betsy Riedel,RNC,IBCLC" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
  Although I do agree that the SOP document is maybe not worded as clearly 
as it could be and that there are definite contradictions within it, I am 
wondering if the general purpose of the new guidelines is to protect both 
the LC, and the clients (legally). Everyone today (including healthcare 
providers) is so hypervigilant about lawsuits that everyone is doing as 
much as possible to cover their you-know-whats.

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