Karleen, you wrote: 

 

On LLLI as an international organisation, LLLI has suffered from many of the same problems that other breastfeeding orgs (like ILCA and IBLCE) have had as a result of being based in the US. My experience has been that in many respects it does not do a very good job of being an international organisation (from my own perception and that of people from within the org that have spoken to me).  Being truly international is very hard and especially so if the org is based in the US (see ICDC and WABA as comparators doing much better jobs). On this particularly issue, the force of US/Western culture is very apparent. 

 

 

-----------I am not completely sure whether you mean ‘WABA does it better’ – organisationwise, or languagewise. Referring to the latter, today I saw this on Twitter: 

 



 

Don’t know if it is visible, probably not because of the settings. It is a tweet sent out by WABA, saying: 

Women NEED #midwives <https://twitter.com/hashtag/midwives?src=hashtag_click>  for their health & wellbeing. But what do midwives need in order to be there for women & other birthing people?

 

This is what I would call ‘a variety of terms’. 

 

 

Lydia de Raad

Volunteer counsellor La Leche League (LLL) Netherlands (Europe)

All opinions expressed in this email are my own

 

 


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