La Leche League of Ridgecrest: March 2011

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Annual Community Health Fair:: Saturday, 26 March 2011, 7:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

On Saturday, 26 March 2011, La Leche League of Ridgecrest (LLLRC) will have a table at the Annual Community Health Fair at the Cerro Coso College Gym. Our table with at least one accredited LLL Leader will be at the Health Fair the entire day, from 7:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. (Right: Jeanie Salyer, Leader)

We'll have a limited number of La Leche League's own book The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, 8th edition, available for purchase at the special Health Fair price of $17.00. That's 15% off the retail price of $20.00. {Tax is included in the $17 price.}

Also on our table, we'll have these FREE items:

· Breastfeeding Guide {tips & products}--Helpful info for pregnant and new moms
· Meeting Info postcards with upcoming meeting dates
· LLLRC Refrigerator Magnets with our WarmLine number

Come to the Health Fair to see what else is offered in the community, and then stop by the LLLRC Table to say hello or with questions you may have.

We'd love to see you there!!

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Series Meeting::Thursday, 10 March 2011, 9:30 a.m.

La Leche League of Ridgecrest will hold its regular series meeting on Thursday, March 10th, at 9:30 a.m.

This month's meeting is the third in our ongoing four-topic series. March's topic is The Art of Breastfeeding & Overcoming Obstacles. We'll discuss how breastfeeding is a learned art, how there can be a learning curve to master, and how obstacles can be overcome.

If you have breastfeeding questions or tips to share, we look forward to seeing you at the meeting and hearing your thoughts. You're also welcome to comment here, if you'd like.

Our meetings are held in Ridgecrest at the Immanuel Ministry Center, 1201 N. China Lake Blvd., next door to Pizza Hut.

{Go in the Ministry Center's main entrance on the east side of the building on China Lake Blvd.
Go straight ahead through the double doors. Our meeting room is the 2nd door on the left.}

Looking forward to seeing you there!

What LLL of Ridgecrest Offers Mothers

● Mother-to-Mother support from experienced breastfeeding mothers and accredited La Leche League Leaders

● A place to get out with your baby

● Phone and E-mail support

● Monthly Series Meetings with the following rotating topics:

---> Advantages of Breastfeeding

---> Baby Arrives: The Family and the Breastfed Baby

---> Art of Breastfeeding and Overcoming Obstacles

---> Nutrition and Weaning

● LLL's own book: The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding (available for purchase or loan)

● Lending Library with books & videos on:

---> Pregnancy

---> Childbirth

---> Breastfeeding

---> Parenting

---> Nutrition

● Monthly meeting reminders through our Yahoo! Group

● A Facebook group

● This Blog

LA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL (LLLI)

LLLI is a nonprofit, nonsectarian organization—recognized as an authority on breastfeeding around the world—founded by seven amazing women in 1956 in Franklin Park, Illinois, USA. Through a network of accredited volunteer Leaders, LLLI currently has a presence in sixty-five countries around the world. Leaders have breastfed their own babies and been specially trained to help mothers with breastfeeding. They keep up-to-date through continued training and studies of the most current medical research on breastfeeding. Although some Leaders make home and hospital visits, support is primarily given through monthly meetings, telephone help, and online through email and the LLLI Web site at http://www.llli.org/ .

La Leche League gives information, support, encouragement, and education to all mothers who want to breastfeed their babies. While complementing the care of the physician and other health care professionals, it recognizes the unique importance of one mother helping another to perceive the needs of her child and to learn the best means of fulfilling those needs.

LLL believes that breastfeeding, with its many important physical and psychological advantages, is best for baby and mother and is the ideal way to initiate good parent-child relationships. The loving help and support of the father enables the mother to focus on mothering so that together the parents develop close relationships which strengthen the family and thus the whole fabric of society.

LLL further believes that mothering through breastfeeding deepens a mother's understanding and acceptance of the responsibilities and rewards of her special role in the family. As a woman grows in mothering she grows as a human being, and every other role she may fill in her lifetime is enriched by the insights and humanity she brings to it from her experiences as a mother.