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So it sounds like they want people who don’t breastfeed to become lactation consultants?? Or people who aren’t actively breastfeeding.
A good friend of mine took that test earlier this year, but her youngest, 2, had self-weaned just before it started, and she’s pregnant with her next one. So for her, it was urgent potty breaks. I don’t think they have the gall to deny people potty breaks.
tracey – do they make them plan the potty breaks ahead of time?
I had to take a very long exam when my seconder daughter was 4 1/2 months. My husband took the day off so he could hold the baby while I was writing. 15 minutes into the exam she started crying. I just brought her with me into the classroom and breastfed her in our sling until she fell asleep, and she stayed with me for the rest of the exam. All I got from the other students and the teacher were “oooohhhhs” and “aaaahhhhhs” of encouragement and tenderness. This happened in Buenos Aires, Argentina, believe it or not. That country is screwed up in so many ways but not in this one – so I think there’s still hope for them!
this is for real? really? that is the most crazy thing i have ever heard in my life. how can you plan when to nurse your child? do you sit and have a heart to heart with the baby. and the mom can not make up lost time. geezum crow.
heather in tempe
Hmmmmm, maybe they are hoping by giving breastfeeding mothers a non-encouraging environment, they will have more empathy for their clients? Yeah, that doesn’t really make sense either. But then the ILBCE’s ridiculous “support” of breastfeeding mothers really makes absolutely no sense.
I belong to LACTNET, the lactation professionals email list, and this very issue came up recently!
At first glance, I agree that this policy seems counter-intuitive at best. Not being able to have your nursing baby at a place so that you can help other women nurse their babies? It just seems silly!
The thing is that taking the IBCLC boards is far from an everyday situation. People study and apprentice for years before being able to sit the exam, and those guidelines are about to become even more stringent. Many people who take tests, especially high-stress ones such as these, require quiet to concentrate. A nursing baby makes noise which can be very distracting, especially for people who are trained to watch and help babies nurse! I know that I would find the sound of a nursing baby – swallows, contented sighs – very distracting in an otherwise completely silent room. I find the sound of someone chewing gum distracting in an otherwise silent room when I’m trying to take an exam!!
I don’t know that I consider not being able to make the time up ridiculous, since you can sit and think about the answers while you’re outside nursing, but I’m a very fast reader, and that probably colors my ideas of what sitting the exam would be like (I could read the questions, then think about the answers outside and just write them down when I got back into the room).
I promise I’m not a spy from the IBCLE
. Just thought I’d add my two cents into the discussion!
Kelley did have some good points. Really they should provide separate rooms where people can take the test whilst breastfeeding. That’s what is done for other exams for people in special circumstances.