La Leche League of Ridgecrest: World Breastfeeding Week Celebration: The BIG LATCH ON

Thursday, July 21, 2011

World Breastfeeding Week Celebration: The BIG LATCH ON

Hi, Everyone~

During the first week of August (1st-7th) every year, World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated by mothers all over the globe with a wide-variety of events and fund-raisers.

This year in Ridgecrest we would like to participate in the National event called the Big Latch On!

In order to be a registered participant and have our breastfeeding moms counted in the national total, we need a minimum of two breastfeeding dyads (mother & baby) breastfeeding in one location at 10:30 a.m. our time on Saturday, August 6th. (Please arrive at 10:00 a.m. to register.) All participating mothers will be registered at the location, and a monitor will count each mother who latches her baby on for one minute at 10:30 a.m.

If you would like to participate in the BIG LATCH ON in Ridgecrest, please let me know by NOON, Friday, 22 July 2011. You may tell me by commenting here at the blog OR

via email at mailto: lllridgecrest@gmail.com.

When I know we have a group of mothers who want to participate, I will arrange for our venue, update the blog, and be sure you're all aware of the details.

Thank you so much!

hugs,
~jeanie.

Further informaton about this event can be found at the following links:

http://www.lllusa.org/wbw/faqwhen.php

http://www.biglatchon.org/

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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.