Wow, throwing people off the track is the real reason this group of women
began to call itself La Leche League?!!!
I thought the name was due to bad self-marketing.  I have always contended
that calling itself the Nursing Mothers Asso or Breastfeeding Mothers Asso
would have put them on the map and in the black way sooner than using a term
no one in America knows the real meaning of.

This is totally out of my cultural brain process, my coming from European
parents who never had a problem with breasts, breastfeeding or saying
anything about suckling-- Hungarian: (meg)szoptat 
Judy Ritchie



> La Leche!  The Milk!  That's why it's called La Leche League.  I'd write
> out a quote, but my copy of Womanly Art is out with a friend.   They
> took the idea from a statue in a church, of Mary breastfeeding Jesus, 
> and the statue was called Our Lady of Happy Delivery and Plentiful 
> Milk, in Spanish - hence La Leche, so they could advertise meetings on 
> handouts etc.
>
> Morgan Gallagher
>
> Judy Ritchie wrote:
> > Curious minds want to know:  So what was the LLL original code word 
> > for breasts?

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