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Cindy Garrison, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, USA Breastfeeding is not supposed to hurt. Yet many mothers and nursing parents complain of pain associated with breastfeeding, which can be a leading cause for early weaning. When someone calls about persistent nipple pain or breast pain, a Leader can review the most common causes for pain while breastfeeding, such … Read More

In this Issue Welcome to our July 2021 issue! In this issue we have an article about solving persistent pain in breastfeeding by Cindy Garrison. Anna Burbidge shares a meeting outline for an online Series Meeting and Roberta Same and Lori Bryan review the bias exercise as part of application work. Finally Heidy Guzmán discusses … Read More

Roberta Samec, Ontario, Canada and Lori Bryan, California, USA The Leader Accreditation Department (LAD) offers Leader Applicants the opportunity to do three optional exercises: Listening Exercise, Bias Exercise, Mixing Causes Exercise. None of these are required exercises, however they can be a valuable addition to application work. A supporting Leader or LAD representative may recommend … Read More

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Heidy Guzmán, Guatemala City, Guatemala What are the concepts? The LLL philosophy is a set of ideas that are based on Leaders’ values when it comes to breastfeeding and parenting. It is summarized in ten concepts. Our philosophy distinguishes us from other organizations that support, promote or protect breastfeeding. This philosophy influences our decision of … Read More

Anna Burbidge, Market Harborough, Great Britain During the global COVID-19 pandemic over the last year many LLL Leaders have turned to Zoom as a way of offering Group meetings, and many have found it can be a really good way to provide information and mother-to-mother support. (See https://llli.org/zooming-into-the-future/) Over the past year my own Group … Read More