What Keeps Me Involved with La Leche League?
When I attended my first La Leche League Group meeting in April 1987, my son was two months old and I had never seen another nursing baby. I came home from that meeting feeling very encouraged about my mothering and about La Leche League. I still feel the same way coming home from meetings. Why am I still here? Take a moment to reread the introduction to the LEADER’S HANDBOOK. “We wanted to help, to pass on what we ourselves had received. This desire to help other mothers and babies, as well as the deep satisfaction that we receive from this commitment, is why we are La Leche League Leaders. And so, by helping just one other woman establish that special nursing bond with her child, we touch and shape the future of the world” (1998 edition, p. 1). This explains why many of us are Leaders. From Chapter 1: “The Leader’s goal, then, is to empower each mother. She does this by giving the mother the facts she needs to make an informed choice and by supporting her as the expert on caring for
