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La Leche League International; Abbreviation: LLLI: Formation: 1956; 69 years ago () [1]: Founded at: Franklin Park, Illinois United States: Purpose "To help mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information, and education, and to promote a better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and mother."
Mary Ann Kerwin (born 1931) is an American lawyer and breastfeeding activist. One of the seven founders of La Leche League in 1956, she established the Colorado branch of the advocacy group and drafted state laws on behalf of women who breastfeed their infants in public and in the workplace.
Betty Redmond Wagner Spandikow (September 27, 1923 – October 26, 2008) was a founder of the La Leche League International. She was a co-author of The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, which has been translated into eight languages and Braille. She was born in 1923 to a Roman Catholic family and raised in the Chicago area. She worked in accounting ...
Marian Leonard Tompson is one of the seven founders of La Leche League International. She was President of La Leche League for 24 years, from 1956 to 1980, and a member of the Founders Advisory Council. Wife of the late Clement Tompson, she is the mother of seven children, a grandmother and great-grandmother.
La Leche League conferences (local, national and international) created venues for speakers, for researchers to present their findings, and for new books to be released. As more women became college educated and entered the work force, they began to create new health fields, such as lactation consultation .
All La Leche League support group leaders have been specially trained and accredited in breastfeeding support. [51] La Leche League also operates an online help form, online discussion forums, and podcasts to enable remote access to breastfeeding support resources.
West is an accredited La Leche League Leader [5] and has worked for La Leche League International as their Director of Media Relations since 2011. [6] She was a member of the review board of the United States Lactation Consultant Association (USLCA) [7] professional journal Clinical Lactationfrom May 2014 until October 2016. [8]
La Leche League recommends scalding as a way to deactivate the enzyme, and states that scalded milk is still a healthier choice than commercial infant formula. [11] Scalding milk consists of heating the expressed milk until there are bubbles around the edges of the container (but not boiling) and then cooling quickly and freezing.