Norma:
Thank you so much for sharing Pam’s words of wisdom! It is so true! It is so 
easy for us to get carried away in our passion to promote breastfeeding that 
we need these reminders of the importance of sitting back and LISTENING to 
the mother and empowering her to make her own decisions.

It is interesting that you mention your concern regarding the decline in LLL 
leaders. I would like to share with you my personal experience with this. You 
have no idea how hard I have tried and how many people I have contacted at 
LLL to try to become a Leader so I can help the mothers in my community by 
promoting breastfeeding with LLL support. I have been denied the opportunity 
to do so because I am a working mom and according to LLL that may be in 
conflict with LLL philosophy. So, the fact that I am a full time working mom 
who has successfully and exclusively nursed two children to toddlerhood has 
been regarded as inconsequential. I would figure that LLL would be thrilled by 
having women with different experiences to help other moms, especially if the 
leader is a working mom herself, has personal experience in pumping at work 
and can relate to the increasing number of working mothers who would like to 
breastfeed but think it can not be done while working. I am still hopeful that 
LLL revamps their program and evolves to a modern support system which 
recognizes that some mothers have no option of staying home with their 
children. Hopefully then the number of LLL leaders will increase and more 
working mothers are empowered to nurse their children for more than the 12 
weeks of maternity leave.

Beatriz

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