La Leche League of Ridgecrest: May 2011

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

We Have a New Leader at LLL of Ridgecrest!!

I am so excited and happy to announce a new Leader now working with La Leche League of Ridgecrest!

Suchada Eickemeyer has just been accredited as a Leader for all of LLL, but her early efforts as a Leader will be with our Ridgecrest Group!

As with all LLL Leaders, in addition to her personal breastfeeding experience and wisdom, Suchada was required to complete a wide variety of reading and dialog with the a local Leader and the LLL Leader Accreditation Department. Through one-to-one meetings and correspondence it was determined that her personal experience aligned with La Leche League's philosophy and Ten Concepts. When Suchada had completed all requirements for Leadership, she was accredited at the end of May 2011.

Many of you know Suchada through the mothers' series meetings held monthly in the area. She will join me in helping mothers throughout Ridgecrest, China Lake, Inyokern, and Trona by leading monthly meetings, taking phone-help calls, and a variety of behind-the-scenes tasks.

Please join me in a very warm welcome to Suchada!

(Pictured above: Suchada Eickemeyer and her two beautiful sons!)

hugs,
~jeanie.

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Series Meeting::Thursday, May 12th at 9:30 a.m.

La Leche League of Ridgecrest will hold its regular series meeting on Thursday, May 12th, at 9:30 a.m.

May's meeting is the first in our ongoing four-topic series. This month's subject is The Advantages of Breastfeeding. We'll discuss the benefits of breastfeeding for the baby, for mom, for dad, and for the planet (because breastfeeding is GREEN).

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.

We appreciate every experienced breastfeeding mother who comes to a meeting to share her successes and support newer moms in their goal to breastfeed. Thanks so much!!

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

{To find our meeting room, go in the Ministry Center's main entrance on the east side of the building off China Lake Blvd. Go through the double doors you'll see across the lobby. Our meeting room is the second door on the left.}

Hope to see you there!

~jeanie.

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.