Hi, today I attended the Mid-Hudson Lactation Consortium Conference starring Kathleen Auerbach. While there, a fellow Lactnetter came over to say hello to me and innocently asked about the situation I discussed with all of you about "My bad day" when my boss came down on me for promoting breastfeeding to the 4 day post partum mom with engorgement and the mother perceived me as coming on too strong and making her feel guilty. Anyway, this fellow lactnetter acquaintance of mine said to me, : "Whatever happened with that incident with your coordinator and that problem?" or something like that, and my coordinator was sitting right next to me and heard her! It was really quite funny - sorry you were embarrassed Ellen. Fortunately I had told my coordinator that I discussed the situation of Lactnet without using her name and she acted okay about it. The case actually got pretty much dropped ( at least outwardly) after I wrote a 4 page "rebutal". I gave an inservice yesterday and among other things discussed the issue of guilt as being a choice the mother makes and how I feel we should be doing breastfeeding promotion and about discussing the disadvantages of ABM rather than only discussing advantages of human milk. The staff as usual was pretty unreceptive, almost to the point of hostile, but what do you know, my coordinator was actually suppportive of what I was saying! (even told me I had a tough job ahead and said I handled it well!) What was also great was that today Kathleen discussed some of the same issues I did at the inservice I did yesterday and said the same kinds of things I did (about guilt, and the power to make and informed choice and acting as we are not neutral on the subject of breastfeeding being the acceptable normal way a baby should be fed) and my coordinator noticed the similarities. Thank goodness that Kathleen has so more credibility than I do ;-) because having heard her say similar things to what I said certainly may help my case, (thanks Kathleen) even though the nutritionist thinks my way of doing breastfeeding promotion is manipulative and she refuses to cooperate to my satisfaction. Anyway just to let everyone that was so supportive while I was so upset about that incident with the client, know that for the last few weeks the boss and I have been getting along very well. I hope it lasts. It sure makes it easier to get up and go to work in the morning. P.S. I am the Breastfeeding Coordinator, R.N. of a WIC Program and have been doing breastfeeding counseling for over 13 years and before that held LLL meetings in my home as a League mother (never completed my leadership process because I went to nursing school. I do routine breastfeeding promotion and counseling, crisis counseling, take emergency calls at home, make occasional home visits, even a rare hospital visit, train peer counselors and run that program, as well as doing breastfeeding inservices to staff. I tell people I'm the breastfeeding coordinator and lactation counselor, that IS what I am, I'm not pretending to be anything else, or something I'm not so What should I call myself. There are lactations consultants (people do call me for consults or crisis help or whatever) and there are IBCLC certified lactation consultants and that's how I see it IMHO.