Re: lactation professionals - licensure?

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sorry many typos... bad keyboard. hope it was still clear enough

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> > > The more I read the more sure I am that licensure as an IBCLC is NOT a

solution. It is an added expense to be sure but will add nothing over all to the

professional image. Someone said hairdressers have a license and that only

furtheres my belief that a license will not bring respect to health care

providers in general. When it becomes required to be licensed I will change

careers. Oh well. 20 years of experience no longer available to the moms I

serve. What I do hope is this is known before I pay money to recert in 2015

because I am not wasting that money for a credential that will now mean nothing

without a license. I get that some value insurance reimbursement. I get that

some think it will help. But after all these years I am more sure it won't and

instead will sit back and watch exactly what some of us are warning about come

to be. But by then I will do something new. Good luck when they label all things

breastfeeding help related a requirement to be licensed. Thinking that will be

the end of mother to mother support too. This medicalizaton of all things female

bothers me from how it limits my right to choose who cares for me when I birth

to how it seeks to now limit who helps me with breastfeeding. This is more to me

then if a woman can get insurance to pay. Because in the end if it limits who

she can choose to hire it doesn't serve her well at all.

> > > Pam MazzellaDiBosco

> > > Pam MazzellaDiBosco. IBCLC

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