Calendar

Nov 15, 2006
ILCA survey concerning Second Credential ends
2007 Conference Presentation Proposal submission ends

Dec 1, 2006
World AIDS Day

Dec 31, 2006
Deadline for individual membership renewals

Feb 28, 2007
Deadline for Group Memberships

ILCA Bookstore

ILCA's new Physician’s Breastfeeding Triage Tool is NOW AVAILABLE for healthcare professionals in your community!

This handy tool was designed specifically for medical personnel who interact with breastfeeding mothers and babies, and provides concise, up-to-date information for managing breastfeeding concerns that physicians are most likely to encounter. Sized to fit conveniently in a lab coat pocket, this sturdy laminated tool is a MUST for staff in mother-baby care units, and also for other departments that do not see breastfeeding mothers and babies as often (including emergency rooms).

Bulk discounts are available to make it easier for you, your organization, or your local breastfeeding coalition to provide this tool to ALL of the healthcare professionals in your community.

For more information or to order, click here or visit the ILCA bookstore.

Practice Notes

New ILCA Position Paper on HIV and Infant Feeding for World AIDS Day

Commemorate World AIDS Day, December 1, 2006, by sharing copies of ILCA’s newly revised Position Paper on HIV and Infant Feeding. PDF Copies may be downloaded from our Press Room. Bulk clean print copies can be purchased through the Bookstore.

World AIDS Day was established by the World Health Organization in 1988 to focus global attention on the devastating impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Observance of this day provides an opportunity for governments, national AIDS programs, churches, community organizations and individuals to demonstrate the importance of the fight against HIV/AIDS. To learn more about the 2006 observance, visit the UNAIDS website and contact your own national ministry of health and HIV/AIDS advocacy groups.

Education

Share Your Consent Forms

Please share your resources with colleagues! ILCA’s Professional Development Committee is seeking samples of consent forms used in clinical practice to post on the ILCA web site as a resource for members. Some topics of interest are supplementation, permission to separate, use of breastfeeding devices, and taking photographs. If you have a consent form on these or other topics that you are willing to share, please send it by email to committee chair, Linda Kutner, at lakutner@aol.com. Unless requested otherwise, ILCA will remove identifiers from the forms so members may use them in their practice. The forms will be posted on ILCA’s website. Please share your resources with colleagues to help the lactation profession grow and thrive!

Share Your Teaching Tips

Please share your creativity with colleagues! Do you have creative teaching strategies that you use in classes for parents or staff? Do you use techniques when teaching mothers one-on-one that are especially effective? ILCA's Professional Development Committee invites you to share your teaching tips so that colleagues may enhance their own interactions and teaching effectiveness. Tips from Kay Hoover are already posted on the ILCA website. Please email your tips to committee chair, Linda Kutner, at lakutner@aol.com.

For Member's Only

ILCA Annual Report Executive Summary

A summary of ILCA’s 2005-2006 annual report was mailed to all members with their 2007 Membership renewals. You may view the Power Point presentation made at the 2006 Annual General Membership Meeting, as well as the slideshow of ILCA Volunteers, at the 2006 Conference area of the ILCA website.

ILCA July 2006 Board Meeting Executive Summary

A summary of the minutes of the July 2006 Board of Directors Meeting is now available on the Members Only Side.

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, commentaries and reviews can be downloaded by members as free PDF files. Click here to see the Table of Contents

Inside Track for World Diabetes Day

Mothers with diabetes mellitus face particular challenges in initiating and maintaining breastfeeding. November 14 is World Diabetes Day. Share information with your clients and colleagues by downloading the Inside Track “Breastfeeding with Diabetes: Yes You Can!" It is available in the Members Only Section of the ILCA website and in the Journal of Human Lactation August 2006 issue. To learn more about World Diabetes Day, visit the World Health Organization.

IGive.com

IGive.com – Holiday Shopping to Help ILCA

If you like on-line shopping, consider shopping through iGive.com. Choose from nearly 700 stores ranging from basic department stores to specialty food and flowers. Your online shopping can match up to 26% of your purchase price as a contribution to ILCA. Membership in iGive is free and purchases are secure. Plus, donations back to ILCA from your purchases are tax-deductible in the US. Go browsing today and help support ILCA’s global work with a click of the mouse!

ILCA Advocacy

Petition to US TSA to allow expressed breastmilk without baby

Breastfeeding mothers traveling without their children are currently not allowed to bring expressed breastmilk in carry-on luggage. Although this is a rule in the U.S., it can affect traveling mothers worldwide. Sign this petition, organized by a working mother and supported by Care, La Leche League, and others, to tell the US Transportation Security Agency to relax rules about expressed breastmilk.

Research Spotlight

Bonuck, K. A., Trombley, M.; Freeman, K.; & McKee, D. (2005). Randomized, controlled trial of a prenatal and postnatal lactation consultant intervention on duration and intensity of breastfeeding up to 12 months. Pediatrics, 116, 1413-1426, 2006.

Review by Karen Wambach, RN, PhD, IBCLC, University of Kansas, School of Nursing, ILCA Research Committee member.

The purpose of this randomized clinical trial was to test the effect of a routine prenatal-postnatal, professional, individualized, skill-based education and support lactation consultant intervention on breastfeeding duration and intensity to 12 months postpartum. [more]

IBLCE Scope of Practice statement from ILCA Board

The Board of Directors of the International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA BOD) met for its regularly scheduled meeting 27-29 October 2006. The ILCA BOD extensively discussed the controversy that had just arisen surrounding the “Scope of Practice” prepared by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE), distributed in the congratulatory packets to newly certified/recertified IBCLCs and posted on the IBLCE website on 26 Oct 2006. The ILCA BOD has been tracking the intense IBCLC reaction to this Scope of Practice: on Lactnet, in individual e-mails addressed to us as leaders of ILCA, and in e-mail groups of several other subgroups of lactation professionals. [more]

2007 ILCA Membership Drive

All members will have received membership renewal information in the mail recently. In order to maintain all of your ILCA membership benefits, do not wait to renew your membership – renew today!

Don’t forget these Membership plusses:

• Combined ILCA/USLCA membership: All USA members automatically renew with USLCA membership included in one fee.
• Group Membership: Join or renew with at least 2 other colleagues and receive a 10% discount on ILCA membership. Learn more about group membership .
• “Each One Reach One”: Membership applications have a space to note ‘who introduced you to ILCA.’ Fill this in with the name of your affiliate, company, or self and be in the running for the Each One Reach One award for bringing in the most new members. Download a membership application or request bulk copies from the ILCA Office.
• Secure on-line credit card purchase: Renew or join easily on-line using your credit card. A very simple way to pay.
• 2-year membership: Get a discount by paying 2 years worth of membership fees at one time. Contact the ILCA Office.
• Know newly-certified IBCLCs? They have a free 3-month trial of our on-line services. Encourage them to join with you using a Group membership or Each One Reach One.

IBLCE Second Credential

The International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE), has announced their interest in developing a second credential targeting peer support staff. ILCA is providing members with numerous opportunities to provide feedback and comments on this issue:

• Learn more about this credential at the IBLCE website www.iblce.org [scroll through the "Latest News" section].
• Complete the ILCA On-line survey .
• Participate in the Discussion Board in the Members-Only side of the website.

Deadline extended for ILCA 2007 Conference presentation proposal submissions

Members and others interested in submitting a proposal for a presentation at the 2007 ILCA Conference now have an extended deadline of November 15, 2006. The conference theme is “Controversies in Lactation.” The conference will be held August 15 – 19, 2007 at the Town and Country Resort and Convention Center in beautiful San Diego, California, USA.

Presentation proposal abstracts can be submitted on line. Please click on the following link to view the guidelines and access the submission site: http://ilca.org/conference/07/speakerguidelines.php

Please share this with colleagues and other interested parties.

2006 Conference Program Poster Competition Entries

Several Program Posters were presented at the 2006 Conference in Philadelphia. The winner of the Program Poster competition was “The Regional Lactation Consultant: Roles and Responsibilities,” by Laura N. Haiek, MD, MSc; Ghislaine Reid, IBCLC, BA; Dany Gauthier, IBCLC; and Lydia Rocheleau, Dtp, MSc.

Other Program Poster Titles are:

• B.C. Women's Milk Bank: The oldest milk bank in Canada
• The Business Case for Breastfeeding
• California Breastfeeding Peer Counselor and Home Visitor Training Manuals: Resources for training in your community
• Consistent Breastfeeding Education in the Community: The "building bridges" approach
• Establishing the Use of Donor Milk in a Pediatric Hospital Setting: Getting started
• Facilitating Breastfeeding in the Hospital Setting: Creating a menu for Cambodians
  
  **Oral Presentations**
  
• Lactation Support within a Multi-Disciplinary Model: The Center for Early Relationship Support
• A Multidisciplinary Team Approach to Providing Care in Complex Situations
• Parenting Young Breastfeeding: An Australian way
• A Pictorial Image to Share the Science of How Human Milk Helps Infants

To see abstracts of each of these exciting Program Posters, open the PDF document from the Research page on the ILCA website.
Oral and Poster Research Presentations will be abstracted in the November 2006 issue of the Journal of Human Lactation. Visit them at JHL on-line, via the Members Only area of the ILCA Website. They may also be viewed as a PDF document from the Research page.

Lactnet Wins Grand Prize Listserv Award

In June, we reported that Lactnet had received the LISTSERV Innovation Award in L-Soft's 2005-2006 LISTSERV Choice Awards program.

In October, Lactnet received the Grand Prize in L-Soft's 2005-2006 LISTSERV® Choice Awards program, the only global recognition program for email list excellence. “Lactnet is an extraordinary Internet community, unique in the way it uses an email discussion list alone to bring together so many different types of individuals, all with the same goal of promoting breastfeeding. Lactnet receives the top LISTSERV Choice Award for being a shining example of how a simple use of technology can be so powerful, resulting in a wave of positive outcomes for mothers and babies worldwide,” Eric Thomas, L-Soft Founder and CEO, said. “On Lactnet, thousands of lactation professionals and other supporters become virtual colleagues – all within the reach of a single email message – and join together to help breastfeeding mothers and enhance maternal-child health.”

ILCA congratulates longtime member and listmother Kathleen Bruce for this outstanding achievement! Congratulations, too, to other Lactnet listmothers and ILCA members Karen Zeretzke and Melissa Vickers. See more at our Member Spotlight.

To read more about the LISTSERV Choice Awards winners, visit:
http://www.lsoft.com/news/choicewinners.asp

ILEAC Welcomes New Member

Jan Barger has joined the International Lactation Education Accreditation Council as the Council’s newest member. ILEAC reviews and evaluates lactation education programs wishing to be recognized as meeting accreditation standards. Jan is a practicing lactation consultant, program administrator and instructor for Lactation Education Consultants, and former ILCA president. Her qualifications as an educator and active ILCA member will be a great asset to the Council.

ILCA Remembers JoAnne Scott

Please take a few moments to visit the ILCA website at www.ilca.org to read ILCA’s tribute to JoAnne Scott, one of the founders of the lactation consultancy profession and an original ILCA member. JoAnne passed away on September 18 after a long battle with cancer, and it is indeed with great sadness yet heartfelt gratitude that we remember her many contributions to the profession. ILCA invites YOU to write us with your special memories of JoAnne, any tributes that you would like to share, or condolences that can be offered for her family and the many friends who knew and loved her. ILCA will post your thoughts on the Valedictory page honoring JoAnne. Please send your thoughts to the ILCA Office at info@ilca.org, or fax them to us at (919) 787-4916.

A scholarship fund has been established to help exam candidates.[more]

Recognition Awards Task Force

Over many years there has been a discussion within ILCA and submissions to the ILCA board about Recognition Awards. Your board needs input from you about how you think these awards should be structured. Would you like to join the Task Force to develop guidelines for these Awards? Contact Sue Cox: suecox@ilca.org. [more]

Marketing Committee Call for Members

Do you have ideas about promoting the IBCLC credential to health care professionals and your colleagues? ILCA’s Marketing Committee seeks dedicated and imaginative members. Marketing the lactation consultancy profession is a significant priority for ILCA in the coming year, and ILCA’s Marketing Committee will be taking an active role in providing guidance and recommendations.
Most work is done by email so members from any geographic area are welcomed especially anyone with experience and interest in promotion and marketing.

If you are interested in serving on the Marketing Committee, you can review the Terms of Reference to learn more about the role of the chair and committee members and download an application, on the Members-Only side of the ILCA website.

Tell Us Your Stories!

Did your Affiliate just host an exciting conference? Have you discovered a new metaphor for breastfeeding? Visit another country? 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.