Melissa Vickers asked:
>Just out of curiousity, where do such groups as Nursing Mothers of
>Australia and other lay breastfeeding counselling organizations stand on
>the political
activism front? Also, do these other groups encompass parenting philosophy as
well?

It's interesting that you should ask this, because as I have been reading
all these posts about LLL, you could have almost always replaced "LLL" with
"NMAA" within the text, the organisations are *so* much alike. So ditto to
LLL re NMAA. I find it a strange situation here in Western Australia, where
NMAA is so big (about 124 Breastfeeding Counsellors state-wide) and LLL is
so small, with only 2 Leaders. We are all here for the same thing
*exactly*, yet there is still this feeling of "us and them", and very
little communication between the two. :-(

Joy Anderson IBCLC, NMAA Breastfeeding Counsellor (over 8 years)
Perth, Western Australia

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