I too have taught both and believe each has a place. For couples too
embarrassed to go elsewhere a private lcass in their home works well. For
women willing to go to LLL meeetings (not all are), that also works, but
does not provide much education for fathers, which I stress as much as for
mothers in my private classes.

PS I try to get a bit in about parenting in two ways. Both parents MUST
hold a doll through the entire 3-session (2hr/session) class--otherwise the
baby will cry!  (I veiw this as future modeling for their own baby).  And
the last class includes a sheet derived from a lovely artilce tseveral
years back in MOTHERING magazine about the REAL patterns of infant/young
child sleep patterns. I call it my reality sheet. It always generates lots
of discussion about what other people have said to the parents about what
to expect/force/teach/require re: sleep.

Clearly,t he modeling of other mothers who meet their babies' needs through
breastfeeding is worthy of observation. It also teaches in a way no words
can: different mothers hold their babies differently and babies all
breastfeed in different ways (length of bouts, etc).  Nothing gets this
across better than a LLL meeting with different ages, sizes, and
personalities of mothers and babies.



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