Barbara wrote:

> Just to remind folks that there was a healthy bfg
support and advocacy community during those years.  I believe the orginal
post that started this conversation seemed to suggest that there were very
few women bfg in those years.  I lived in the South (Austin) and this place
was a hotbed of LLL and natural childbirth advocacy.

This was also true in New Jersey and other north-eastern states in the USA. I believe that more LLL Leaders were accredited during the 70s than ever before during a similar time-period, and perhaps since. In fact, part of the training given to Leaders at that time was how to talk to mothers who were being peer-pressured to breastfeed and how to give them *permission* to wean!

If only that momentum had continued!

Norma Ritter, IBCLC, who was accredited as an LLL Leader in October 1976
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