In einer eMail vom 25-4-04 1:59:30 West-Europa (zomertijd) schreibt
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> Gonneke, I still wonder where the 1 year and older is too old thing comes
> from because I have heard it multiple times from women who have contacted
> LLL. Perhaps it is just that 1 year is a convenient line to draw and that
> these are isolated individuals. I hope no one thought that I was
> crtiticising LLL because I wholeheartedly believe in the necessity of a
> supportive community for the success of breastfeeding and for many women
> that can only be resourced through mother-to-mother support groups like LLL
> and ABA.

Karleen, I definitely did not think you were criticising the whole of LLL!
Just wondering where the word came from.
I think that there might be a leader or a group of leaders that have had the
impression somewhere that 1 year might be the top for trying to teach a child
to breastfeed and told so on meetings. I have experienced this with all kinds
of subjects that are important to some individual leaders. What is important
to a person, that's what she talks about. Sometimes a leader can forget that
*everything* she says during a LLL meeting or when wearing her LLL hat or even
just in talking to people who happen to know she is a LLL leader, is heard as
if it is said by LLL I'm sure most of us are aware of that mechanisme.
Sometimes things said as a personal opinion are spread through an organisation and all
of a sudden it seems to be "a LLL statement".


Warmly greeting,

Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC, LLLL
Germany - The Netherlands

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