La Leche League is an international, nonprofit, nonsectarian organization dedicated to providing education, information, support, and encouragement to women who want to breastfeed.
Membership in La Leche League International is $40 for one year. Membership fees help to support your local Group and the international organization. The benefits of membership include a one-year subscription to NEW BEGINNINGS magazine.
La Leche League of Bannock County, Idaho
A continuing series of informal discussion meetings are offered and are open to all women interested in breastfeeding. Mothers-to-be are encouraged to come before they have their baby. At these monthly meetings, women share not only their concerns and questions, but also the joys and benefits of breastfeeding.
The local Group offers a lending library as well as books and items for sale from the La Leche League International catalogue. As an on-going fundraiser for our group, we sell Over the Shoulder Baby Holder slings. Please call Delinda for an appointment, or they are available for sale during the meetings.
Meeting Information
La Leche League meetings are based on THE WOMANLY ART OF BREASTFEEDING, published by La Leche League International. Our meetings rotate through a series of topics that include:
- The Advantages of Breastfeeding
- The benefits of breastfeeding to the baby, the mother and the family
- Misconceptions about breastfeeding
- Coping with other's attitudes toward breastfeeding
- How breastfeeding affects mothering
- Baby Arrives: The Family and the Breastfed Baby
- Preparing for birth and breastfeeding
- Nursing fashions
- Working and breastfeeding
- Getting breastfeeding off to a good start
- Father's role
- Siblings adjustments to the new baby
- The Art of Breastfeeding and Avoiding Difficulties
- Avoiding common breastfeeding difficulties
- Adjusting to parenthood
- Meeting baby's nighttime needs
- Nutrition and Weaning
- Improving family nutrition
- Nutrition for nursing mothers
- Starting solids
- Weaning
- Breastfeeding the nursing toddler
LLL of Bannock County meets in the meeting room at the Marshall Public Library on the second Wednesday of the month. Our meetings start at 10:30 a.m.
Pregnant women, mothers, babies and toddlers are always welcome at all La Leche League meetings.
Leader Information
La Leche League Leaders are experienced mothers who have breastfed their own babies and who have been trained and accredited by La Leche League International to help mothers and mothers-to-be with all aspects of breastfeeding. They are available by phone whenever you have breastfeeding questions or concerns.
Please note: If contacting a Leader by e-mail, please put LLL in the subject line.
- Heather 637-8138 heatherscraps@hotmail.com
(Call for information regarding slings)- Kimberly 528-9196 Kimberlyhk@aol.com
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The La Leche League International 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 the mother.
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