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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