La Leche League of Missouri 2007 Area Conference
Celebrate the Power of Breastfeeding
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La Leche League Leaders and Mothers and Fathers and Kids are..... Diverse, talented, creative individuals.... Learn more about our speakers, starting with our headliners Dia, Diane, and Dee, and Faye. The others are in alphabetical order. |
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She has developed a style of bottle-feeding that can be used to reinforce proper breastfeeding. The article, Bottle-feeding as a tool to reinforce breastfeeding , describing this method (the Kassing Method of bottle-feeding) was published in a peer-reviewed international journal (JOURNAL OF HUMAN LACTATION, read Abstract). The article was voted by the journal's readers as The Most Useful Article of 2002. The Kassing Method of bottle-feeding is now used worldwide. Also of interest is her article, Breastfeeding and CranioSacral Therapy: When It Can Help. Dee has had other articles published in La Leche League International's LEAVEN, Illinois La Leche League's SPICE SHELF, Illinois Department of Public Health's BREASTFEEDING TOPICS and local parenting magazines. |
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Faye Young was an LLL Leader for 44 years and was Public Relations Director for LLLI from 1971 to 1992. She authored the children's book, Gerald the Third, published five Souvenir Albums and two Facts From Faye Calendars, and chaired several LLLI Conference entertainment program committees. Faye is currently on the Board of Directors for Another Look, a nonprofit organization dedicated to stimulating research about breastfeeding in the context of HIV/AIDS. She lives in St. Louis with her husband of 48 years. They have four children and are expecting grandchild number ten. |
| Jan Benne, LLL Leader, LLL Communication Skills Instructor |
| Skyla Bowman, LLL Leader |
| Charlene Burnett, LLL Leader, RN, IBCLC, OB Educator/Lactation Consultant at Truman Medical Center, Lakewood |
 Lynn
Carter, LLL Leader, LLL of Kirksville, co-presented a poster on the development of her PR
program with health care professionals in her community at the LLLI
conference in Washington, DC 2005 |
 Ginny
Chadwick, LLL Leader, LLL of Columbia Sunset Group, mother of baby with
severe food allergies who has now grown to be a happy breastfed toddler.
Ginny has been a leader with the Maryville MO group and Arlington TX.
Mother of two girls, Aubrielle 7 and Savannah 4. Ginny enjoys teaching
and learning about sustainable living. |
| Loree Clark, LLL Leader |
| Rev. Kristen M. Dow, M.Div BCC |
| Cynthia Godwin, LLL Leader, LLL of Kansas City South, a leader since 1990. She received her B.S. in Elementary Education in 1982 from University of NE-Lincoln. She is currently working on my Masters in Special Education from CMSU. Area of interest is in the gifted/learning disabled and has taught middle school for the past 7 years. Has worked in elementary school, preschools, and run her own home day care. She has been married to Brad for 24 years and they have 3 sons: Josh-21, Luke-18 and Matthew-15. |
| Hannah Hart, LLL Leader |
| Debbi Heffern LLL Leader IBCLC |
| Amy Jerke, LLL Leader |
 Deanna
Jurkowski is an LLL Leader with La Leche League of Warrensburg.
She is the mother of six breastfed children.
Deanna has a wide range of breastfeeding experiences. She has exclusively pumped for her baby in intensive care who later died from surgical complications. And she nursed four into toddlerhood with both baby led and mother led weanings. Number six is only a few months old, so she is eager to experience what this breastfeeding relationship will be like. She is a stay at home mother who is rarely at home. Deanna feels that there is not much you can't do with children around. Following her passions, she is able to help other mothers and babies with their the breastfeeding relationship, volunteer at her children's schools, their activities, her church, and work on several other community projects. Deanna still finds time to sew, garden, cook and sometimes even clean! Allowing the babies and children to be a part of her everyday life instead of life stopping and revolving around them is what makes life so great! Check out their family blog maintained by Dad, Odin. |
 Larkellen
Krehbiel, LLL Leader, LLL of Columbia, mother of three ages 7 - 17, living in a city on
an income that is less than the national average; frequent speaker on
thrifty living to community groups; specializes in saving on groceries;
co-owner of
Estate and Garage Sale
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| Sarah Linsenmeyer, Children’s Yoga Instructor |
| Jessica Mattingly, LLL Leader, La Leche League of Blue Springs, IBCLC, certified childbirth educator and doula who has experienced a personal loss of an infant. Five years experience in working with food allergies/ intolerances, nutritional deficiencies, and leaky gut; has discovered how reactions have manifested in different family members. |
| Shelley Mayse, Certified Infant Massage Instructor, MSW, LCSW |
| Rich Prather, DC in private practice |
| Holly Robinson, LLL Leader |
| Martine and Joe Samocha, LLL Leader and Husband |
| Alyssa Schnell, LLL Leader |
 Cynthia
Shelby, LLL Leader, LLL of Columbia, mother of two sons, MS in entomology, with a
reluctant fondness for bugs
USDA Insect Kid Link:
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| Kent Shelby, father of two sons, USDA Entomologist, (not reluctantly) fond of bugs |
 Laurie
Shornick, Laurie received a Ph.D. in Immunology from Washington
University, and she is currently Assistant Professor in the Department
of Biology at Saint Louis University. She received the 2007
International Lactation Consultant Association Research Award for a
project entitled "The Role of Maternal Immune Factors in Milk on the
Neonatal Response to Respiratory Viral Infection." She has been an LLL
Leader since 2004, and she lives in St. Louis with her husband and 8
year old son.To see Laurie's publications, check out http://web.mac.com/lshornic/iWeb/ShornickLab/Welcome.html |
 Nikki
Simmons, LLL Leader, LLL of Highpoint/Versailles AM and PM and LLL of
Jefferson City. She has been helping mothers in person, by email
and by phone for 6 years. Since she lives in the country, the
phone is her main connection with mothers. Her 8 year old daughter is hopeful that other kids will be joining her at the kids
sessions. Nikki writes...
"I came to La Leche League because a kind woman named Kolbi invited me. I didn't realize how much I needed to connect with a community of women who had successfully breastfed. My only regret is that I didn't come to LLL sooner. I have met my closest friends here, friendships based in the deep value that mothering matters." |
| Heidi Sloss, LLL Leader |
| Pat Sturges, LLL Leader |
 Karen
Urick, LLL Leader, La Leche League of Blue Springs, RD, IBCLC, mother of two breastfed boys. 5
years professional experience in public health dept/WIC program.
Karen writes....
"When my husband, Mike and I lived in Atlanta, GA before children, I worked for the public health dept as a registered dietitian for the WIC program counseling pregnant, nursing and post-partum women with their young children. It was amazing to me seeing the bond between the nursing mom and her baby as well as how much healthier the breastfed babies were. I wanted to learn so much more about breastfeeding so I started my path towards certified lactation consulting (IBCLC). I read many professional books about lactation, attended many conferences and volunteered at an inner city hospital assisting new mothers breastfeed their babies. In Atlanta, I also started going to local LLL meetings to get more of the mother's perspective on breastfeeding and parenting. Attending LLL meetings helped me be a more sensitive and knowledgeable public health professional and later in my life, prepared me for breastfeeding and mothering my own 2 children. We moved back to the Midwest in 2000, I became a first time mother and an IBCLC in 2001, and a LLL leader in 2002. With all the conflicting advice parents receive about breastfeeding, they can count on LLL for correct information and respectful support. I love giving back to LLL and helping other parents discover the wonderful benefits to breastfeeding their children." |
 Jenny
Walters, LLL Leader, LLL of Overland Park South AM, BA Microbiology,
graduate study in Maternal/Child public health |
| Laura Warren LLL Leader |
Dee
Kassing is
the owner and founder of Breastfeeding Support Services, Inc. and
divides her time as an IBCLC at St. John's Mercy Medical Center NICU in
St. Louis and in a Level III NICU in Illinois. Dee became an LLL Leader
in 1986, and serves as Assistant Area Professional Liaison for LLL of IL
and as a Metro East (IL) LLL representative on the Edwardsville (IL)
Region Breastfeeding Task Force. Previous:
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