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 ILCA
NEWS
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| Membership Renewals
The 2008 Membership Renewal forms have been mailed and you should have received your form by now!
We want to encourage you to renew online for 2008 by offering a drawing for those who renew online by December 15, 2007. The winner will receive a Gift Certificate good for a 2-night stay at the Red Rock Casino and Resort in Las Vegas, site for the 2008 ILCA/USLCA Conference in July.
We are again offering the Group Membership. Join or renew with at least two others and receive a 10% discount for each membership. Each Group must mail in a Group Transmittal form, a membership form for each member, and one check for the total payment for all memberships. You cannot make a Group Membership Renewal on-line.
For more information, contact Glenna Thurston at the ILCA office at glennathurston@ilca.org.
Call for Nominations for ILCA Board
ILCA enjoys doing things for you! Have you thought how much you could enjoy doing things for ILCA?
Nominations are still open for the Board positions of Treasurer, Director of Professional Development, and Director of External Affairs.
Please consider nominating yourself or another. Nominations close November 30, 2007.
Further information and nomination forms are available on the Members Only area of the website. Contact Nominations Committee Chair Sue Cox at suecox@ilca.org for more information.
Fellows of the International Lactation Consultant Association (FILCA)
Applications will be accepted until December 31, 2007 for the initial round of the ILCA Fellow program. Further information and applications can be found on the Members only side of the ILCA website.
Don't qualify but still interested? Consider serving as a member of the FILCA Review Committee.
Curriculum Project Call for Member Input
ILCA's Professional Development Committee has appointed a Subcommittee to develop a curriculum for the preparation of lactation consultant students who are not existing health professionals and have no prior breastfeeding/lactation education or practice. The committee needs your views on the knowledge and skills needed to practice as a lactation consultant:
- What can we expect a lactation student to know and be able to do at the end of their education? What outcomes are expected?
- How can a lactation student gain the experiences that will provide the needed knowledge and skills, in particular the practical/clinical skills of lactation consultant practice?
- How can we determine if the student has achieved the required standard?
Share your thoughts on ILCA's Discussion Board under the topic entitled "Development of a Model Curriculum". If you prefer to submit your comments privately, please send an e-mail to info@ilca.org indicating in the subject line that you are writing about the "ILCA Draft Curriculum."
Deadline for member comments is December 10. [more]
Marketing Plan Seeking Member Comment
The Marketing Plan for the Profession of International Board Certified Lactation Consultants is now open for public comment by ILCA members. To view the Plan, please go to the Members Only area of the ILCA website. Please direct your comments via email to the ILCA Office at: info@ilca.org or fax them to ILCA at: (919) 787-4916. You can also share comments and ideas on the Marketing Plan Discussion Board.
Deadline for the public comment period is November 15, 2007.
Notice to Purchasers of 2008 ILCA Planner
Are you one of those who purchased
the recently-published 2008 ILCA Planner/Diary, which contains
the fantastic Resource Guide? If you have already received your
planner, please contact Lisa Joncich in the ILCA Office at lisajoncich@ilca.org
and she will send you a sticker to place over page 16 of the
valuable and timeless Resource Guide. If you are waiting for
a back-ordered copy to arrive, there is no need to do anything
as your planner will include the revised information.
Liaison Profile: Standing Committee on Nutrition
Rachelle Lessen represented ILCA at the 34th session of the United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN) in February 2007. The Standing Committee on Nutrition works to promote cooperation among UN agencies and partner organizations in support of community, national, regional, and international efforts to end malnutrition in all of its forms. UN members include UNICEF, UNAIDS, the International Labor Organization (ILO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Members also include representatives from national governments and non-governmental organizations such as ILCA. The committee meets annually.
The focus of the 2007 meeting was "Working together to achieve freedom from child hunger and undernutrition". Rachelle also attended a pre-session meeting of the Working Group on Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding where revitalization of BFHI and the introduction of the WHO growth charts were discussed.
Call for Sister Applicants
ILCA offers the opportunity for an individual who is unable to join ILCA due to hardship experienced from dire social, economic or political circumstances to receive an ILCA membership. The program is designed to support Lactation Consultants by providing membership benefits and opportunities, networking, mentoring and support to become self-sufficient as an individual member. Through this program Lactation Consultants can be supported and promoted in their practice.
Several individuals and groups are ready and waiting to sponsor through this program. We would like to match them with an individual by the end of the year so the sponsored person can enjoy a full year of ILCA membership benefits!
If you have a colleague who may meet the above qualifications, please download an application from the ILCA website and forward it. Applications should be returned to the ILCA Office by December 15.
World Breastfeeding Week 2007
Several parts of the world celebrated World Breastfeeding Week during the month of October. Celebrations in Canada included a Breastfeeding Challenge, pictured here, hosted by the Newman Breastfeeding Clinic & Institute and Mom2Mom Toronto, where they had 26 babies breastfeeding at the same time. The day's events also included a charity fundraiser that, thanks to all the participants and organizers, was a great success!
If you have photos from your WBW events, send them to Kendall Cox, ILCA's
WBW coordinator, at kendallcox@ilca.org.
November JHL in Your Mailbox AND On-line
Access each issue of the Journal of Human Lactation on-line through the Members Only side of the ILCA website. All articles and commentaries can be downloaded by members as free PDF files. You can view the table of contents for the August, 2007 issue at http://jhl.sagepub.com/content/vol23/issue4/?etoc.
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MEMBERS IN THE NEWS |
Thanks to ILCA Study Module Staff
Do you know that it takes a team of 11 people to prepare every Independent Study Module? Each module has one question writer, two reviewers, and five timers. ILCA's Education Coordinator manages the production process, and sends it to ILCA's Project Director who works with the graphics department and coordinates printing and uploading of documents on the ILCA website.
ILCA thanks members who have worked on study modules during 2006 and 2007: Barbara Ash, Cheryl Benn, Mary Blanchet, Kathleen Cable, Isabelle Côté, Janet Susan Everest, Karen Foard, Jacki Glover, Kim Guth, Jeanne Hagreen, Laura Hart, Robin Hollen, Elizabeth Hormann, Doreen Kazmer, Wendy Kiggins, Phyllis Kombol, Teresa Maglione-Glaser, Eileen O'Sullivan, Debbie Page, Vicki A. Rich, Renate Rietveld, Natalie Shenk, Elizabeth Spannraft, Karen Lynn Stark, Karen Strube, and Anna Maria Westlund.
Thank You for the ILCA Scholarship
By Beryl Wheeler, Rwanda
I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone at ILCA for giving me the opportunity to attend my first ILCA conference, and my first visit to your very beautiful country.
I wanted to attend every session, they were all so interesting, and unfortunately it was not possible. However, the sessions I did attend proved very valuable, inspiring and thought-provoking. The benefits of attending the conference were many. All of the knowledge I gained is going to assist me in my teaching of future IBCLC's in Rwanda. In addition to new knowledge gained is the networking with people who share the same goal and vision of promoting and protecting breastfeeding. It was so good to meet with the people who have assisted me in the education of IBCLC's in Rwanda, and put faces to their names. It was also inspiring to meet many authors whose books I use for teaching.
I cannot thank you all enough for making my attendance at the conference possible. I love having all the sessions on CD to review and use as a resource.
I will never forget my time at the conference or the wonderful people I met.
International Cooperation Supporting Breastfeeding in Romania
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| Relactating mother with new
breastpump. In about 3 weeks, her milk supply increased
from 1 ml to 100 ml / pumping session. |
"All For You and Your Baby Too"
is a collaborative association in Bucharest working to protect,
promote and sustain breastfeeding in Romania. Recently, the association
and the Neonatology Department of the Obstetric & Gynecology Clinic
at ELIAS University Hospital, Bucharest, Romania, received several
Ameda breast pumps, courtesy of the diligence of Elizabeth Hormann,
the European Lactation Consultant Association (VELB) and Robert
Leigh of ARDO Medical. The pumps will be used to help breastfeeding
families at the hospital to establish or re-establish lactation.
They had to travel from Switzerland, to Germany, and then to Bucharest.
All For You and Your Baby Too is the English translation of "Totul
Pentru Tine Si Copilul Tau" (ATTCT). Established in 2004,
ATTCT provides childbirth education and lactation support to families.
It has also worked with professional education and legislative
initiatives. Director Georgeta Musat, RM, IBCLC, has collected
a network of lactation colleagues from the US, Denmark, Germany,
Holland, and the United Kingdom. To learn more, and to practice
your Romanian, visit their website: www.attct.ro.
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| WELCOME NEW IBCLCs! |
Congratulations to all of you who just passed your IBCLC exam!
The ILCA "Trial Membership" is now available for newly certified IBCLCs. If you need help to log onto the ILCA website, please email glennathurston@ilca.org. Don't wait; this trial membership expires on December 31, 2007.
When you are ready to join, download a membership application or join on-line. If you know of two others who want to join ILCA or renew their current membership, click here to download the Group Transmittal and save on your membership dues!
If you're already an ILCA member, encourage other new IBCLCs to visit the website, especially the Members Only area, where they can open this eGlobe, search the Journal of Human Lactation on-line, and see PowerPoint presntations from past ILCA Conferences.
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Conference Plans for 2008
We look forward to seeing you at one or both of our exciting conferences planned for 2008. There are only:
Thirty Seven (37) weeks left for you to plan to be at
the Red
Rock Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada
and
Forty Seven (47) weeks left to plan to be in Vienna,
Austria
Our international invited speakers for Las Vegas include:
- Dr Mark Cregan from the University of Western Australia who, with his doctoral students, is working towards better understanding the cellular components of breastmilk during lactation
- Professor Mary Renfrew from the University of York UK, co-author of Bestfeeding and well known for her Cochrane Collaboration reviews on breastfeeding research
- Dr Julie Smith, an economist who is currently researching a book on the economics of mothers' milk.
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Why not present a session yourself! We need to hear some of the interesting cases or research you have been involved in. Abstracts for Las Vegas are now closed, but abstracts for Vienna are now being accepted.
2007 Conference Highlight:
Budding Lactation Researcher Presents Research Poster
Emily Welchel is a strong supporter of breastfeeding and a strong supporter of lactation research that will support breastfeeding promotion, as evidenced by her recent research study. That is great, but it is even greater because the researcher is only 15 years old!
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| NEWS TO USE |
Barbara Wilson-Clay and Kay Hoover 2008 Conference Scholarship Fund
A scholarship fund has been set up by Kay Hoover and Barbara Wilson-Clay to provide an opportunity for ILCA members who have never attended an ILCA conference to attend either the 2008 ILCA conference in Las Vegas, Nevada USA or the 2008 ILCA/VELB conference in Vienna, Austria. The scholarship will cover the full week conference registration, a $615.00 value plus $115.00 to help with travel expenses.
To apply for this scholarship, you must be an IBCLC who has only been certified for the past five years (since 2002). All applications must be received at the ILCA office by April 1, 2008.
To apply for this scholarship, please click here.
Michigan Publishes Best Practices for NICU Document
Best Practice Guidelines for Supporting Breastfeeding in the NICU: 10 P's for Practice is a new publication of the Michigan (US) Breastfeeding Network.
These guidelines were developed to help create a consistent focus of breastfeeding practice within Michigan neonatal intensive care units (NICU) and special care nurseries. The complete document with references and two posters are now available online. Go to Michigan Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies, http://www.hmhbmi.org. Click on Michigan Breastfeeding Network, then click on Projects. [more]
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| BOOKSTORE |
The Breastfeeding Atlas
By Barbara Wilson-Clay
and Kay Hoover
This 3rd edition of the popular clinical guide, The Breastfeeding
Atlas, is bigger and better, with an additional 64
new photographs, a new chapter on donor human milk, and
more. It comes with a DVD of short video clips to support
clinical practice. Both the earlier material and the additions
provide the IBCLC with evidence-based information applied
to clinical management of breastfeeding. It is also an
excellent preparation for the IBLCE exam. You will want
to keep this useful text on your desk.
The Diaper Diary
By Barbara Wilson-Clay and Kay Hoover
The Diaper Diary is 2-sided handout for parents in pads of 50. The front is an illustrated guide to infant output in the first week, written at an appropriately low literacy level to make it accessible to the majority of the general population. This tool is unsurpassed as a guide for parents, to enable them to identify the normal, or recognize when to seek help. Dads love it, too! The reverse enables the parents to record stools and wet diapers.
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| REVIEWS |
Book and Multimedia Reviews on ILCA's Website
ILCA members can access
reviews on the Members
Only page under "Downloadable Publications."
Click on a title to read the review. All reviews will
remain on the website as new ones are added.
Books:
Breastfeeding and Catholic Motherhood: God's Plan for You and Your Baby. Sheila M Kippley. Sophia Institute Press, 2005.
Breastfeeding in Hospital: Mothers, Midwives and the Production Line. Fiona Dykes. Routledge, London and New York, 2006
The Milk Memos: How real moms learned to mix business with babies-and how you can, too. Cate Colburn-Smith and Andrea Serrette. Tarcher/Penguin, 2007
The Passing Zone Series: Immunology Essentials, Infant Anatomy and Physiology, Research Essentials. Marie Biancuzzo, IBCLC. Breastfeeding Outlook, 2006 and 2007 (Flash Cards).
Multimedia Reviews:
Tongue-tie: Information for Families. Breastfeeding Education & Support Services (BESS), 2005 (DVD and VHS, PAL and NTSC).
Readers interested in writing reviews
of books, CDs, photo/slide collections, videos, DVDs
and websites should contact Nicole
Bernshaw , IBCLC, Review Editor.
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| VOLUNTEERS |
Marketing Taskforce
ILCA is actively recruiting members for FOUR marketing task force groups to further the implementation of our Marketing Plan. A task force is being convened for each of the four target audience groups selected for the initial marketing effort, as outlined in the Marketing Plan.
They are:
(1) Consumers
(2) Employers (hospital administrators and physicians)
(3) Educators
(4) Policy Makers
If you are interested in working on one of these task forces, please contact the ILCA office, or visit the Discussion Board thread on this topic, to learn more about joining a Task Force. There are no special marketing skills required.only a willingness to share your knowledge and expertise.
ILCA Fellow Review Committee: Call for Chair and Members
As part of ILCA's new Fellow program, the ILCA Board has established a committee to review FILCA applications and make recommendations for recognizing those members with career-long achievements in the field of lactation consultancy. Committee participation will be for one year, with most of the work being accomplished during January 2008.
This committee is a perfect opportunity for those who want to become more involved in ILCA for the first time. Please read the Terms of Reference, fill out and return the application by December 1, 2007 if you are applying for the position of Committee Chair and by December 15, 2007 if you are applying to be a member of the Fellow Review Committee.
If you have questions, please contact Terriann Shell, Director of Professional Development at terriannshell@ilca.org.
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| TELL
US YOUR STORIES! |
Did your Affiliate just
host an exciting conference? Have you discovered a
new metaphor for breastfeeding? Did you visit another
country or do something exciting? Share your professional
stories with your colleagues by submitting an article
to eGlobe. Photos and text of about 500 words are
welcome. Send your submission to the eGlobe Editor.
EGlobe is Archived! Sign in
to the Members Only area at www.ilca.org
to see previous issues of the eGlobe!
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