The Wisconsin Breastfeeding Coalition developed (and/or adapted)  
materials to put in a packet called "Building Breastfeeding Friendly  
Communities in Wisconsin."  As part of that we have a section on  
"Breastfeeding Support at Meetings/Conferences."

You can see it at

http://dhfs.wisconsin.gov/health/Nutrition/Breastfeeding/ 
bffriendlycomm.htm

Scroll down to "Conferences and Meetings."

Click on "Breastfeeding Support at Conferences and Meetings."

We tried to include sample language for conference planners to use  
regarding meeting the needs of babies present while respecting the  
needs of others who might have paid a lot of money to attend a  
conference.  We wanted to make it a useful guide both for  
breastfeeding conferences and for any other field where planners had  
never before even thought about breastfeeding mothers and their needs.

Feel free to use it, improve it, or adapt it for local needs.  It was  
put together a few years ago.  We would write it differently now.   
Maybe we will revise/update it.

There have been some great suggestions in this discussion on  
Lactnet.  I loved Morgan's ideas on activities for the crawlers and  
older children in attendance and Teresa's story about John Holt!  One  
thing about the presence of babies and children is the role modeling  
of attachment parenting and meeting the needs of the babies/children  
present that goes on.  It demonstrates that breastfeeding can be  
combined with work/learning opportunities for the mother.   
Breastfeeding can occur in public.  It can be discreet.  Some  
professionals who come to breastfeeding conferences have no personal  
experience with breastfeeding or parenting breastfed babies.  They  
may have dealt only with tiny babies in the NICU and are trying to  
gain information for sitting the IBLCE exam.  They may have not seen  
older nursing babies before, and certainly not in a big, public  
venue.  So a lot of peripheral learning goes on.

Anne Altshuler, RN, MS, IBCLC, LLLL
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Madison, WI, USA



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