Since many families take trips in the holiday season, we thought this FAQ by LLLI was a good one to point mom's toward.
Are there any tricks to traveling with a breastfed baby?
It's much easier to travel with a breastfed baby than a bottle-fed one. A breastfeeding mother doesn't need to worry about packing bottles and formula or sterilizing all the feeding supplies. Your milk is always ready and always at the right temperature, and the comfort of nursing can help reduce the stress of being in unfamiliar places.
For the rest of this article click HERE.
And here is a good article from New Beginnings on Traveling with Toddlers from the Toddler Tips section.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
Daniel Island Meeting canceled for December
LLL of Charleston/Daniel Island Meeting is canceled for December.
Please join us on January 27th for our next evening meeting or another meeting in the Charleston area any time you can.
LLL Meetings are open to all women interested in breastfeeding. Babies and toddlers are always welcome & meetings are always FREE.
Please join us on January 27th for our next evening meeting or another meeting in the Charleston area any time you can.
LLL Meetings are open to all women interested in breastfeeding. Babies and toddlers are always welcome & meetings are always FREE.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
La Leche League International needs your stories!
NEW BEGINNINGS (LLLI Member Magazine) needs personal stories from breastfeeding mothers about the normal course of breastfeeding. Tell us what helped you cope with challenges such as sore nipples, plugged ducts, frequent nursing, colic, premature birth, fatigue, or a baby with a chronic health problem. Describe how you breastfed while being treated for a chronic condition such as diabetes or high blood pressure. Write about your experience with breastfeeding a child older than one year or using loving guidance with your preschooler or older child.
Personal stories should be between 600 and 1000 words. Strike a balance between describing details and sharing your feelings about your experience. Color photos of your child and/or family add to the appeal of these stories. If your submission is selected for publication, all rights are assigned to LLLI and you will receive two complimentary copies of the issue in which your submission appears. Stories may be mailed to:
NEW BEGINNINGS
LLLI
PO Box 4079
Schaumburg, IL 60168-4079
Or email to the Managing Editor via our Contact Us page. Choose the publications option.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Breastfeeding Law in South Carolina
You probably already know that in 2006 South Carolina passed a law clarifying that a mother may nurse her child in public, and that breastfeeding is exempt from the indecent exposure statutes.
Now, the SC Breastfeeding Coalition will propose legislation in the coming session that will protect the rights of breastfeeding women in the workplace. Those rights will include reasonable requests such as breaks for pumping and protection from discrimination if a woman does decide to pump at work.
Click and find your legislator to show your support of this bill.
You may also want to check out the SC Breastfeeding Action Committee for more information and ideas on how to write or email your representatives.
A note on La Leche League & advocacy...
Our Mission is 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.
Though La Leche League of Charleston, SC is not in alliance with these other organizations, we do want to be here to inform our local moms of things that can effect them. You can also find more on legislation and advocacy in the USA at LLL in the USA.
Now, the SC Breastfeeding Coalition will propose legislation in the coming session that will protect the rights of breastfeeding women in the workplace. Those rights will include reasonable requests such as breaks for pumping and protection from discrimination if a woman does decide to pump at work.
Click and find your legislator to show your support of this bill.
You may also want to check out the SC Breastfeeding Action Committee for more information and ideas on how to write or email your representatives.
A note on La Leche League & advocacy...
Our Mission is 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.
Though La Leche League of Charleston, SC is not in alliance with these other organizations, we do want to be here to inform our local moms of things that can effect them. You can also find more on legislation and advocacy in the USA at LLL in the USA.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Breastfeeding Book Suggestions
Several moms have asked us for book suggestions on breastfeeding.
Here are a few good ones on breastfeeding, milk supply, multiples, & working outside the home.
An LLLI classic, available in English, Spanish, Dutch and Italian.
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
by La Leche League International
Newly out!!
The Breastfeeding Mother's Guide to MAKING MORE MILK
by Diana West, BA, IBCLC and Lisa Marasco, MA, IBCLC
Mothering Multiples: Breastfeeding and Caring for Twins or More
by Karen Kerkhoff Gromada
Nursing Mother, Working Mother: The Essential Guide for Breastfeeding and Staying Close to Your Baby After You Return to Work
by Gale Pryor
The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning
by Martha Sears and William Sears
Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers
by Kathleen Kendall-Tackett and Nancy Mohrbacher
Many of these books are available in the LLL of Charleston library for you to borrow. If you want to buy them, remember when have the $40 Regular Membership which includes a one year subscription to New Beginnings, you also receive a member's discount at the LLLI on-line store.
Happy Reading!
Here are a few good ones on breastfeeding, milk supply, multiples, & working outside the home.
An LLLI classic, available in English, Spanish, Dutch and Italian.
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
by La Leche League International
Newly out!!
The Breastfeeding Mother's Guide to MAKING MORE MILK
by Diana West, BA, IBCLC and Lisa Marasco, MA, IBCLC
Mothering Multiples: Breastfeeding and Caring for Twins or More
by Karen Kerkhoff Gromada
Nursing Mother, Working Mother: The Essential Guide for Breastfeeding and Staying Close to Your Baby After You Return to Work
by Gale Pryor
The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning
by Martha Sears and William Sears
Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers
by Kathleen Kendall-Tackett and Nancy Mohrbacher
Many of these books are available in the LLL of Charleston library for you to borrow. If you want to buy them, remember when have the $40 Regular Membership which includes a one year subscription to New Beginnings, you also receive a member's discount at the LLLI on-line store.
Happy Reading!
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Another Look
December 1st was World Aids Day. In honor of this, we'd like to share a link for an organization entitled Another Look.
AnotherLook is a nonprofit organization dedicated to gathering information, raising critical questions, and stimulating needed research about breastfeeding in the context of HIV/AIDS.
The following letter was written by LLLI Founder & President and CEO of Another Look, Marian Tompson:
December 1, 2008
Dear Friend of AnotherLook,
Today - World Aids Day - is a fitting time to send you an update on what AnotherLook did in 2008 and is currently doing.
First of all, there have been interesting changes in infant feeding recommendations. Women in developing countries are being encouraged to exclusively breastfeed their babies for six months. This is a significant change from the 1997 WHO recommendations when women were told to not breastfeed at all, if formula was acceptable, feasible, affordable, sustainable and safe. Unfortunately, HIV positive women in industrialized countries, including the United States, are still being told not to breastfeed. Sweden is the only industrialized nation where breastfeeding by an HIV positive mother is forbidden by law. Women in industrial countries are threatened with having their babies taken away if they breastfeed, despite the fact that there is no evidence that babies who are breastfed by HIV positive mothers are more likely to get sick and die than those who are fed formula, nor proof that HIV in breast milk is actually infectious or that the baby can be infected by the virus in breast milk. Two years ago AnotherLook was contacted by an HIV positive mother in Indiana, whose newborn baby was put into foster care for three months after she breastfed in the hospital.
In 2008 AnotherLook activities were aimed at gathering information, raising critical questions and stimulating needed research about breastfeeding in the context of HIV and AIDS. These activities included:
* Participating in the first meeting of the World Alliance For Breastfeeding Action (WABA) North America Region and leading a session in the meeting on Reducing Discrimination Toward HIV+ Mothers in North America on Infant Feeding Issues.
* Moving forward on a research project to survey the policies and practices of Child Protective Services in the USA toward HIV+ mothers who wish to breastfeed. A Masters Level student in Public Health will do the study as a practicum. (In a sample test in one state, we were told that if the HIV+ mother who chose to breastfeed was not well educated, it would be assumed that she didn’t understand the warning from her doctor not to breastfeed and would simply be told to put the baby on a bottle. However, if the mother was well educated, had researched this issue and still decided to breastfeed she might be taken to court and have her baby taken away.)
* Meeting with our research team at the University of Texas Medical Center, in Galveston to work on a study design to research HIV virus in breast milk and to identify funding sources.
* Having the AnotherLook abstract “HIV and Feeding Recommendations, Political Science” included on the CD-Rom of presentations at the 2008 International AIDS Conference.
* Becoming part of the Leadership Team of the United States Breastfeeding Committee when Marian Tompson, as the AnotherLook delegate, accepted the invitation to be vice-chair for the coming year.
* Doing PowerPoint presentations on this issue for health professionals at La Leche League Conferences in the United States and Ireland.
* Responding to requests for information from parents, students, researchers and health care professionals.
* Updating the AnotherLook library of research on breastfeeding and HIV/AIDS.
* Working on a paper with a physician on the flaws of HIV testing in low risk populations.
* Looking forward to updating theAnotherLook website with frequently asked questions about breastfeeding and HIV, making the website more interactive with a team that is ready to implement this task.
This important work is only possible because of the financial support of many friends. After attending a past AnotherLook presentation a key person at UNICEF said that AnotherLook should be present at every discussion of infant feeding when a mother is HIV positive because we presented elements of the issue that were very often overlooked.
We can see we are making a difference as researchers begin to question infant feeding strategies that are based solely on the possibility of virus transmission instead of on maximizing the probabilities for good maternal/infant health.
You can help continue this work by making a donation, tax deductible in the United States, to:
AnotherLook
P.O. Box 383
Evanston, IL 60204-0383
We appreciate your interest and send our best wishes for Happy Holidays!
Marian Tompson
AnotherLook is a nonprofit organization dedicated to gathering information, raising critical questions, and stimulating needed research about breastfeeding in the context of HIV/AIDS.
The following letter was written by LLLI Founder & President and CEO of Another Look, Marian Tompson:
December 1, 2008
Dear Friend of AnotherLook,
Today - World Aids Day - is a fitting time to send you an update on what AnotherLook did in 2008 and is currently doing.
First of all, there have been interesting changes in infant feeding recommendations. Women in developing countries are being encouraged to exclusively breastfeed their babies for six months. This is a significant change from the 1997 WHO recommendations when women were told to not breastfeed at all, if formula was acceptable, feasible, affordable, sustainable and safe. Unfortunately, HIV positive women in industrialized countries, including the United States, are still being told not to breastfeed. Sweden is the only industrialized nation where breastfeeding by an HIV positive mother is forbidden by law. Women in industrial countries are threatened with having their babies taken away if they breastfeed, despite the fact that there is no evidence that babies who are breastfed by HIV positive mothers are more likely to get sick and die than those who are fed formula, nor proof that HIV in breast milk is actually infectious or that the baby can be infected by the virus in breast milk. Two years ago AnotherLook was contacted by an HIV positive mother in Indiana, whose newborn baby was put into foster care for three months after she breastfed in the hospital.
In 2008 AnotherLook activities were aimed at gathering information, raising critical questions and stimulating needed research about breastfeeding in the context of HIV and AIDS. These activities included:
* Participating in the first meeting of the World Alliance For Breastfeeding Action (WABA) North America Region and leading a session in the meeting on Reducing Discrimination Toward HIV+ Mothers in North America on Infant Feeding Issues.
* Moving forward on a research project to survey the policies and practices of Child Protective Services in the USA toward HIV+ mothers who wish to breastfeed. A Masters Level student in Public Health will do the study as a practicum. (In a sample test in one state, we were told that if the HIV+ mother who chose to breastfeed was not well educated, it would be assumed that she didn’t understand the warning from her doctor not to breastfeed and would simply be told to put the baby on a bottle. However, if the mother was well educated, had researched this issue and still decided to breastfeed she might be taken to court and have her baby taken away.)
* Meeting with our research team at the University of Texas Medical Center, in Galveston to work on a study design to research HIV virus in breast milk and to identify funding sources.
* Having the AnotherLook abstract “HIV and Feeding Recommendations, Political Science” included on the CD-Rom of presentations at the 2008 International AIDS Conference.
* Becoming part of the Leadership Team of the United States Breastfeeding Committee when Marian Tompson, as the AnotherLook delegate, accepted the invitation to be vice-chair for the coming year.
* Doing PowerPoint presentations on this issue for health professionals at La Leche League Conferences in the United States and Ireland.
* Responding to requests for information from parents, students, researchers and health care professionals.
* Updating the AnotherLook library of research on breastfeeding and HIV/AIDS.
* Working on a paper with a physician on the flaws of HIV testing in low risk populations.
* Looking forward to updating theAnotherLook website with frequently asked questions about breastfeeding and HIV, making the website more interactive with a team that is ready to implement this task.
This important work is only possible because of the financial support of many friends. After attending a past AnotherLook presentation a key person at UNICEF said that AnotherLook should be present at every discussion of infant feeding when a mother is HIV positive because we presented elements of the issue that were very often overlooked.
We can see we are making a difference as researchers begin to question infant feeding strategies that are based solely on the possibility of virus transmission instead of on maximizing the probabilities for good maternal/infant health.
You can help continue this work by making a donation, tax deductible in the United States, to:
AnotherLook
P.O. Box 383
Evanston, IL 60204-0383
We appreciate your interest and send our best wishes for Happy Holidays!
Marian Tompson
Monday, December 1, 2008
Get a “Green” Bag Free with Every Order from the LLLI Store
Get a “Green” Bag Free with Every Order from the LLLI Store!
Go green with the “Of Course I’m for Breastfeeding” bag! It’s made from 100% recycled materials, is hand washable, and is gusseted for maxium space. Use it again and again for groceries, to tote personal items, and to show your support for breastfeeding mothers around the world! Measures 13x13x5. As a way to say thank you to our customers, one free “Of Course I’m for Breastfeeding” tote bag will automatically be placed in every order from November 1 through December 31, 2008. (Bags also available for individual and bulk purchase.)
Go green with the “Of Course I’m for Breastfeeding” bag! It’s made from 100% recycled materials, is hand washable, and is gusseted for maxium space. Use it again and again for groceries, to tote personal items, and to show your support for breastfeeding mothers around the world! Measures 13x13x5. As a way to say thank you to our customers, one free “Of Course I’m for Breastfeeding” tote bag will automatically be placed in every order from November 1 through December 31, 2008. (Bags also available for individual and bulk purchase.)
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