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| Call for Nominations for ILCA Board
The future of ILCA depends on active participation - become involved NOW!
ILCA members are invited to submit names to the Nominations Committee for the Office of Treasurer and Director of Professional Development and Director of External Affairs.
These three positions are due to be installed at the 2008 Annual General Meeting of the Association to be held in July, 2008 in Red Rock Nevada USA, after election by IBCLC-members in March/April 2008.
The Director of External Affairs position will fall vacant in 2008 as Angela Smith moves to the position of President. Both the Treasurer and Director of Professional Development joined the Board by appointment in 2006. Now that the appointed term is up, these positions must be filled by you, the membership, as a whole.
If you have been an ILCA member in good standing for the last two (2) consecutive years, an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and have some expertise in any of these areas you may want to nominate yourself for one of these positions. Previous leadership experience, especially working in an ILCA committee or as a member of your affiliate or other governing committee, is preferred.
This is your opportunity to get involved with ILCA. 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. Nominations close November 30, 2007.
ILCA Board Appoints New Director of Membership
The ILCA Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Roberta Graham de Escobedo to the position of Director of Membership and Affiliate Services. The position was vacated recently by Donna Ron, who resigned for personal reasons. We thank Donna for her year of service to ILCA and welcome Roberta as she steps up to serve the remaining 2 years of this term. For more information on Roberta, please go to the ILCA website.
New Education Mission Statement
ILCA has replaced the Education Standards with a new, more global Educational Mission. The new mission encompasses the initiatives and principles that ILCA supports, and encourages providers of lactation education to meet several criteria regarding their programs. The former Education Standards were restrictive in nature and addressed the single topic of credentialing. The new Educational Mission describes standards which the association encourages educators to meet, while not mandating their actions. The new Educational Mission is available on the ILCA website.
Accreditation
Application Available
The International Lactation Education
Accreditation Council (ILEAC) finalized the new Accreditation
Application and review process when the Council met in San Diego.
There is now a two-step process for applying for accreditation.
The applicant first completes a Request for Accreditation Review
and after receiving confirmation that they are eligible, they
will be invited to complete the Accreditation Application. More
information is available at the ILCA
Website, scroll down the page to "Applicants for Accreditation".
Fellow Applications
New Program: Fellows of the International Lactation Consultant Association
The Board of Directors of ILCA are pleased to announce the creation of the Fellows of the International Lactation Consultant Association program. It has been a long-time goal of the ILCA Strategic Plan, and members of our profession, to establish a program that would suitably recognize career-long achievements of the leaders and mentors in the field of lactation consultancy. [more]
Further information and the application form are available at the ILCA Website on the Members Only area.
Discussion Board - Recognition for Advanced Practice
We need your input! Should ILCA, the professional association for IBCLCs, develop and offer programs permitting specialists in our field to be recognized for their added expertise? For example, an IBCLC with years of experience working with mothers and babies in the NICU could earn recognition for that specialized skill. This not only recognizes the leaders in our field, it permits administrators, managers - and parents – to better appreciate the specialized care an IBCLC can provide. For more information and/or to give us your opinion, go to the ILCA On-Line Discussion Board
2007 World Breastfeeding Week Wrap-up
Breastfeeding: The First Hour—Welcome Baby Softly
Whether you whispered or shouted from the mountaintop, we hope that your WBW activities were successful. Share your event! Send photos and give reports of your activities. We will post some of them on the ILCA website and in future eGlobes. E-mail your materials to kendallcox@ilca.org. For photos, please include captions.
Teaching Breasts for WBW
Barb Chaney and Rita Blake, IBCLCs at Mercy Hospital Anderson in Cincinnati, Ohio celebrated World Breastfeeding Week with a display in the lobby of our hospital, where passers-by could register for a doorprize and pick up literature about breastfeeding. They posted WBW flyers throughout the hospital and the local newspaper ran an article about our hospital's celebration.
Rita and Barb also baked "breast themed" goodies each day of the week for their staff at the Family Birth Center (a Baby-Friendly facility). The staff favorite for several years has been the breast cake. Not to pass up a teachable moment, Barb notes that "as I presented it to the staff at the nurse's station, I told them, 'A nursing mother's breasts are supposed to look like this.' Then I put maraschino cherries in place of the Hershey Kisses for nipples and asked the staff, 'What would you do if they looked like this?' When they answered correctly they were allowed to have their cake and eat it too!"
JHL August 2007 Issue Highlight: "Newborn In-Hospital Weight Loss"
Healthy, full-term newborn babies tend to lose weight during the first few days after their birth. A groundbreaking new study published in the latest issue of the Journal of Human Lactation explores the reasons why certain newborns lose more (or less) than others and what conclusions can be drawn from the research. [more]
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Second Annual Lactation Consultant Hall of Excellence Nominations Open
Medela is again sponsoring the Lactation Consultant Hall of Excellence program. The program honors the hard-work, dedication and best practices of lactation consultants across the United States. The program was announced at the 2007 ILCA Conference, along with a special recognition of the three inaugural inductees from 2006, each of whom received a a $5,000 grant to fund research, continue education, purchase equipment for use in their practice or donate to the charity of their choice. [more]
Eligible nominees for the 2007 the Lactation Consultant Hall of Excellence must be practicing International Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLC) in the United States and be nominated by a peer and client for their role as an exceptional professional. The nomination process requires the completion of an online nomination entry form, a letter of nomination and a letter of support from a past or present client. Program guidelines and the online nominee submission forms are available online at www.lchallofexcellence.com. Questions can be directed to Medela at 1-800-435-8316 ext. 607 or lc.hall@medela.com. Entries must be submitted via the online nomination form by October 12, 2007.
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Sue Saunders Wins ILCA/WABA Practicum
ILCA is pleased to announce that Sue Saunders has been awarded the inaugural ILCA/WABA Practicum.
Sue is an IBCLC with a Nursing, Midwifery and Breastfeeding counseling background. Since becoming an IBCLC in 1989, she has worked in a variety of lactation settings and countries including Australia, England, and Gabon in West Africa.
[more]
REAL MEN at the 2007 ILCA Conference
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By Andy B. Cook, proud husband and Associate IBCLC (by association) to Renee Cook, RN, CCE, RTSC, CLE, IBCLC - Close To My Heart, Phelan, California.
I spent most of last week in the bookstore at the ILCA conference
in San Diego, CA. My wife loves working with breastfeeding moms
and I support that labor of love in every way that I can. Volunteering
to work at the conference seemed like a crazy way to extend my
support but it turned out to be one of those ideas that worked
out exceptionally well. For my efforts I received a tee shirt
that declares, "Real men go to breastfeeding conferences." (But
that wasn't anywhere near ALL that I brought home with me from
this conference [more]
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| 2007 ILCA CONFERENCE |
The 2007 ILCA Conference in San Diego, California USA was a great success and our largest ever! Over 1,000 participants from 20 countries participated in 5 days of education, training, and fun in San Diego. Forty percent of conference participants had never attended an ILCA Conference before, though over 80% of registrants were ILCA members.
Heartfelt thanks to all involved in the conference: planners, speakers, volunteers, and staff. Special thanks to Judi Lauwers, ILCA Education Coordinator, and Heather Blanken, ILCA Conference Staff, and the Conference Planning Committee for all of their hard work. Thanks, too, to Kym Smythe, Volunteer Coordinator, Natalie Porterfield, and Registrar, Glenna Hokes and Amber Maxa, Bookstore Coordinator.
REAL MEN Attend Breastfeeding Conferences
ILCA presented t-shirts to several of our male speakers and staff. They proudly sported their shirts, which declared "Real Men Attend Breastfeeding Conferences." For one man's experience, read Andy Cook's Story …
Conference Stories
Have an interesting story from the Annual Conference to share with your colleagues? Feel free to send photos and brief articles (300 words or less) for upcoming eGlobe issues. Send your items to DoraineBailey@ilca.org
Couldn't Make It? Syllabus and Recordings Available
Copies of the 2007 Conference Syllabus are still available to purchase from the ILCA Bookstore. The syllabus comes with a CD-ROM of presentation abstracts and many presentation slides.
Recordings of conference presentations are available from Repeat Performance and may be ordered on-line at http://www.audiotapes.com.
Journal of Human Lactation Reader's Choice Award for 2006
Jane Heinig, JHL Editor in Chief, announced that this year's winner was "Staffing for Hospital Lactation Programs: Recommendations from a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital" by Rebecca Mannel and Robert S. Mannel. It appeared in the Journal of Human Lactation , vol. 22: pp. 409 - 417, 2006.
ILCA 2007 Research Grant Recipient:
The winner of the 2007 ILCA Research Grant is Laurie P. Shormick, PhD, from the Department of Biology, St Louis University, St Louis MO. USA for her project entitiled, "The Role of Maternal Immune Factors in Milk on the Neonatal Response to Respiratory Viral Infections." [more]
Research and Poster Presentation Awards
ILCA's 2007 Conference Poster Presentations were judged by Karen Wambach, Laurie Rivers, Mary Rose Tully, and Jane Heinig. Authors of several poster presentations were selected for oral presentation at the conference. Selections were based on a blind peer review by the Research Committee.
This year's outstanding Research Poster was:
"Formula freebies from hospitals: Patterns of discharge pack distribution in the North Eastern US"
Anne Merewood, MPH, IBCLC, Tina Navidi, BS, Stephanie Love, MPH, Simone
Neuwelt, BS, Reginald Fonrose, BS, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA USA
This year's outstanding Project Poster was:
"Feasibility and results of pre-and postnatal counseling of mothers of babies with cleft lip and palate"
Elisabeth Tufte, RN, MPH, IBCLC and Nina Lindberg, RN, Norwegian Resource Centre for Breastfeeding, Rikshopitalet-Raniumhopitalet Medical Centre, Oslo, Norway
Read abstracts from the 2007 Conference Posters
Two ILCA Conferences in 2008!
ILCA will cosponsor two conferences in 2008. The first conference, to be held July 23-27 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, is cosponsored with the United States Lactation Consultant Association (USLCA). The theme is, One Voice, Uniting the Profession - Practice, Professionalism, Policy.
ILCA and the European Lactation Consultants' Association (VELB) will cosponsor a conference on October 1-3, 2008 in Vienna, Austria. The theme is, A Worldwide View on Breastfeeding.
The Speaker Submission site for the Las Vegas Conference will open on
September 15, 2007. When the Las Vegas submission site closes on
November 1, the site for the Vienna conference will open. Please visit
the 2008 Conference page for more information and a link to the submission site.
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| BOOKS |
Still Selling Out Mothers and Babies
Marsha Walker, NABA Real
The National Alliance on Breastfeeding Advocacy's popular "Selling Out Mothers and Babies" has just been updated, and the 2007 update reports on new violations within the United States of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes by manufacturers and distributors of artificial baby milks, bottles and teats. For all who need to know WHY the International Code is necessary, WHAT it says, and HOW industry is continuing to circumvent it, this report is a "must have". Additionally, it provides a listing of product recalls and is extensively referenced.
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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.
Book Reviews:
Medication Safety in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding. Gideon Koren. McGraw Hill Health Professions Division, 2007
Mothering Multiples: Breastfeeding & Caring for Twins or More! Third revised edition. Karen Kerkhoff Gromada. La Leche League International, 2007
The New Breastfeeding Diet Plan: Breakthrough Ways to Reduce Toxins & Give Your Baby the Best Start in Life. Robert Rountree MD, and Melissa Block MEd. McGraw-Hill, 2006
Multimedia Reviews:
First Attachment. Kittie Frantz RN. Geddes Productions, 2005. DVD (English and Spanish); VHS (NTSC, PAL, SECAM) English or Spanish.
What Every Parent Needs to Know About: Baby Getting Enough Milk, Breast Shells, Pacifiers and Breastfeeding, Peanuts and Breastfeeding, Pierced Nipples and Breastfeeding, Storing Mother's Own Milk. Marie Biancuzzo, IBCLC. Breastfeeding Outlook, 2006 (information sheets).
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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Research Committee Seeks
New Member
The Research Committee is recruiting one new member
for the term of 2008-2011. Applicants should be published
researchers in the field of lactation. For an application
or more information please contact Dr. Joan Dodgson
at dodgson@hawaii.edu. Please have your application
in to Dr. Dodgson by October 15, 2007.
The Research Committee would like to express their
appreciation to Dr. Karen Wambach for her years of
service and leadership to this committee and to Laurie
Rivers, as the JHL representative to the committee
who has always been an active contributor to our activities.
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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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