Welcome Breastfeeding Carnival readers! This month participants are writing about overcoming breastfeeding challenges. Since the Breastfeeding Carnival falls on a Monday, this week’s post will replace my regular Monday Musings post.
To overcome breastfeeding challenges, whether they be physical, social or emotional, the best thing to do is attend La Leche League meetings.
The free mom-to-mom support, education, and friendship that a breastfeeding mom can receive from her local La Leche League group literally is priceless. From overcoming breastfeeding challenges, to instilling breastfeeding and mothering confidence, to becoming a part of helping to make the world a more breastfeeding friendly place, La Leche League is often the jumping off point for many budding lactivists and breastfeeding professionals.
If there isn’t one in your area, the next best thing is to find an on-line community of breastfeeding mothers for support and information. I recommend the forums at Mothering and Kellymom as well as the fabulous community on Twitter.
That is all.
Now get thee to a meeting!
And make sure you check out the other fabulous carnival participants’ posts.
Breastfeeding 1-2-3 The importance of a babymoon
The Milk Mama How I got my bottle loving, breast phobic baby to love nursing
Hobo Mama Supplemental feeding techniques for a breastfed baby
Lucy an Ethel Have a Baby Toddler A rough start
The Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog What obstacles have you overcome to breastfeed? A poll
Maman A Droit Clueless
Living Peacefully With Children When nursing takes longer
Jessica Montalino Motherhood week 7 and our breastfeeding experience
Earth Mama Angel Baby Nine things your nipples wish you knew about them
Good Enough Mummy Tongue tied and twisted
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- Monday Musings: What Are You Doing For World Breastfeeding Awareness Week?
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- A Conversation About Breastfeeding in Mongolia and Jack Newman
- How To Become A Breastfeeding Support Professional
Tags: La Leche League
I can’t say enough good things about my local LLL leader, who was also my doula for Peeper’s birth. I don’t know how I would’ve made it through our rough early weeks without her advice and support.
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I agree, LLL saved my breastfeeding relationship. Also, my sanity. It really is a fabulous organization.
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I LOOOOVE my LLL group. I look forward to it all month, and wish we met every week! My leader is amazing, our group varied enough but like minded enough–it’s good.
But I have to say, this is not everyone’s experience. I’m sure there is nothing to be done, sometimes people mix and sometimes they don’t. But my cousin who lives in Victoria has attempted three separate LLL groups and felt judged and/or unsupported and/or looked down upon by either leaders or attendees at ALL THREE. Isn’t that awful? My cousin is a babywearing NCBing breastfeeding anytime anywhere, nursed her oldest until 3 1/2 years, still going strong with her youngest at 18 mos…If a group of breastfeeding moms judges HER, I’m mystified.
Her theory is that Victoria is so crunchy LLL has gone extreme to maintain its differentiation from mainstream? Possible, though lots of Island communities are quite crunchy, so who knows.
MY only regret is that I didn’t start going to LLL meetings YEARS ago. It’s nice to find some moms who are similar to me and supportive of breastfeeding. And I’m so glad I found your blog, too. It helps me a ton to feel like I’ve networked with other breastfeeding mommas–my community is sorta overrun with materialistic people who don’t seem to question much and are certainly not AP oriented, and it drives me nuts. It’s hard to feel alone. So my LLL group helps me, as does your blog.
I also wanted to say that my first son had a tongue tie that my Dr refused to snip, so I persevered with sore blistered nips for about a month until my son’s frenulum stretched out enough, or he grew enough, or something!! It resolved at about a month. Then I developed overproduction problems, which reoccurred with my third child (second pregnancy/breastfeeding relationship). Overproduction is tough!
Anyways, good post, as usual.
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Great suggestion! Makes me want to go find a group. Their website esp. the messageboards are really helpful too, but I’m sure not as much as meeting real moms and LLL leaders in person!
I started going to LLL meetings before I had my first baby, and one leader’s help was invaluable as I nursed my first child. I had so many problems and she actually came to my house to help one afternoon after I cried into the phone for an hour. She was wonderful.
What is a Breastfeeding Carnival? I’m pretty new to blogging and I have no idea of what that really means?
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@Wild Mama – A breastfeeding carnival (and there are other kinds too) is when you write a post on a particular subject (designated by the carnival host) along with a bunch of other bloggers and on a certain day you link up to the other members and their carnival posts. It’s a good way to get your blog known and especially good for newbies too
If you are interested in joining, subscribe to The Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog for dates as to when to send in your post by and what day the actual carnival is.
For a list of blog carnivals and the blogs that host them you can check out a post I did on all the different kinds of carnivals there are out there http://www.breastfeedingmomsun.....chy-mamas/
@Melissa – I would actually love to go to a different LLL group to see what the differences are. I have been going go the same group for 4 years and it’s great, but I have heard about how different they all can be and would like to see for myself how they differ. Maybe I can come to yours! That would be neat hey?
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