Connect
with a LLL chapter or talk to a lactation consultant before baby is born.
I gained advice from my doctor who was breastfeeding her own child, and discussed my worries
with LLL mothers.
Paulina Erices is the mother of three children ages 14, 12, and 6, a La Leche League Leader
with LLL of Mountain Plains in Colorado, and an IBCLC in private practice.
If you are concerned, you can always discuss your worries
with an LLL Leader, lactation consultant or health care professional.
Women that are about to nurse for the first time should definitely try to connect
with their LLL chapter.
Carol Smith is the mother of five, and has been involved
with LLL for 35 years.
All Exhibits must comply
with LLL guidelines.
Once again, current research and evidence has caught up
with LLL.
Some mothers spend hours on the phone in private conversation
with a LLL Leader and come to the meetings because complaining is their default setting.
Working
with your LLL Leader or IBCLC is recommended to find the best combination of ideas to increase your breast milk while the safety of galactagogues can be discussed with your health professional.
During the early days with my third baby, I felt a special connection in my heart and soul
with my LLL colleagues and with all of the mothers whose breastfeeding wisdom has been passed along.
Not exact matches
I had already learned contradictory information from
LLL and the lactation consultants at the local hospital - yet she gave me bad advice
with gusto.
I was
with Mary Ann at the 15th Anniversary of Attachment Parenting International, where she shared her experiences and passion for the ideals that API and
LLL have in common.
After getting my doula (also
LLL and IBCLC) on the phone
with the hospital pediatrician, my husband finger fed her a small amount of glucose.
Janet Jendron, API Board President
with daughter Claudia Jendron and Mary Ann Cahill,
LLL Founder and presenter at the API 15th Anniversary event
I did — I thought my lactation consultant and
LLL leader might like to see them, and thought it might help
with glandular tissue questions.
Your
LLL Leader can supply information that you can discuss
with your health care provider.
Melissa Clark Vickers has been an
LLL Leader for 26 years, mother of two, grandmother of three, soon to be four, and writes and edits for Family Voices, a non-profit organization dedicated to keeping families — especially those
with children
with special health care needs — at the center of health care.
You can discuss these
with your health care provider and your
LLL Leader.
Your
LLL Leader can access resources that specifically deal
with these issues, and pass on information to you that can help you make a decision.
If you face any problems
with breastfeeding be sure to contact your local
LLL Leader or an IBCLC for help.
The
LLL website provides advice about dealing
with nursing issues, mother - to - mother forums, information about getting one - on - one attention from a La Leche counselor, podcasts, and publications about breastfeeding and the law in the United States and around the world.
Meetings are a fabulous way to meet your local
LLL Leaders in real life and have a one - to - one discussion
with them.
Diana West, BA, IBCLC, is an
LLL Leader and co-writer
with Teresa Pitman and Diane Wiessinger on the eighth edition of La Leche League International The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding.
LLL Leader Alice Allan looks at how comfort objects fit in to attachment parenting and popular author Pinky McKay discusses how to communicate successfully
with toddlers.
It would be a big help to Deaf mothers if
LLL and other breastfeeding educators could produce DVDs and online conferences
with a sign language translation added.
LLL Leader Nancy Mohrbacher has been helping mothers to breastfeed their babies for over 30 years and has developed a new strategy based on her considerable experience, together
with what she has learned from other experts in the field.
Alice Farrow is a single mother, lesbian, retired
LLL Leader and expatriate Australian living in Rome
with her two bilingual children and adopted dog.
I once went to this
LLL meeting for help
with my latch.
I came across the following on
LLL's website: «[I] f your baby has come in contact
with something which you have not, (s) he will pass these germs to you at the next nursing; during that feeding, your body will start to manufacture antibodies for that particular germ.
Sears published his book, The Fussy Baby,
with La Leche League (
LLL) in 1985, at a time when he was the most well known of
LLL's physician supporters.
I would see crap my NCB friends (who I met through
LLL, a group I innocently turned to for help
with nursing) would post on Facebook about «feeding
with love.»
An
LLL Leader suggested that I look for ways to deal
with my own fatigue, because that was my problem.
Diana West, BA, IBCLC, is an
LLL Leader and co-writer
with Teresa Pitman and Diane Wiessinger on the eighth edition of La Leche League International The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding and of Sweet Sleep.
I recently partnered
with my local
LLL and did a fundraiser for them.
Community Cloud, Five Things an
LLL Leader May Say, Give Me a Meeting
with Mothers, La Leche League Meetings, La Leche League Meetings.
Please be sure to share articles
with a link back to the original breastfeedingtoday-llli.org post rather than adapting them or «LLLovingly Lifting» the text for other
LLL publications or websites.
I could rely on
LLL to be the emotional support that I needed during my time
with little ones in the foreign city.
With all cases of nipple pain seek help from both your
LLL Leader and health care professional to determine the cause.
-LSB-...] Lisa Hassan Scott is an
LLL Leader living in South Wales, UK
with her husband, Keith, and three children.
Her many books are in harmony
with La Leche League values, and she has been a speaker at
LLL conferences.
Then, very gradually, the medical profession began to catch up
with La Leche League (
LLL).
With this in mind, I headed to a local La Leche League (
LLL) meeting, hoping to find some female companionship and information about preparing for breastfeeding.
LLL meetings are a great place for learning from and making friends
with others.
LLL is a non-profit organization
with the sole goal of breastfeeding support.
«What if I showed up at an
LLL conference,
with its logo in the background, bottle - feeding on a throne of stacked Similac cans?»
It couldn't be that women have to work, struggled to establish a nursing relationship
with preemies, had medication they elected not to expose their children to, had supply problems that couldn't be solved despite all the herbs / LCs /
LLL message boards in the world.
We later met all of the founders of
LLL, who told us that if they hadn't been so overwhelmed
with focusing just on breastfeeding education and support, they would have loved to do what we were doing: focusing on parent education.
There are a variety of places to look for a class, but I would start
with contacting your local hospital, birth center or
LLL group.
I worked
with many lactation induced Mommas back in the day when I was an
LLL leader.