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
We'd love to see you there!!
The Annual Health Fair was a well attended event. Throughout the 8-hour day, many different women stopped by the LLLRC table.
ReplyDeleteSome of the women who really stood out included a mother of quadruplets who nursed her Four babies for Four Months! (She wished she had nursed them longer but she was just too tired. Well, yeah!! 4 babies at once--wow! I was exhausted with one baby at a time!) We told her what a wonderful thing she'd done getting her quadruplets off to such a wonderful start in life!
There were some young, unmarried women who visited us and picked up the Breastfeefing Guides we had available. They told us they had heard how good breastfeeding is for babies and that they planned to breastfeed when they begin their families.
Many woman long past the breastfeeding phase of their lives, came to the table to reminisce about the days when they had babes in arms and to recall wistfully their happy nursing memories. One of these woman announced that she had attended La Leche League meetings 48 years ago in Los Angeles! That would have been only two years after LLL began holding meetings in So. California because this 2011 is the SC/NV Area's Fiftieth Anniversary!
It was a day well spent at Cerro Coso College's Gymnasium helping make La Leche League of Ridgecrest's presence and services known to the community. If you stopped by our table to say hello, we thank you for your ongoing support! ~j.