About Us
La Leche League is an organization founded in 1956 by seven women who wanted to make breastfeeding easier and more rewarding for both mother and child. The organization offers information and encouragement (primarily through personal help) to those women who want to breastfeed their babies.
La Leche League is a nonprofit, non-sectarian organization and is entirely supported by donations, memberships, and sales of materials.
La Leche League is a nonprofit, non-sectarian organization and is entirely supported by donations, memberships, and sales of materials.
Our Mission |
Our 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 mother.
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More Than Breastfeeding |
LLL believes that breastfeeding, with its many important physical and psychological advantages, is best for baby and mother and is the ideal way to initiate good parent-child relationships. The loving help and support of the father enables the mother to focus on the new baby so that together the parents develop close relationships which strengthen the family and, thus, the whole fabric of society.
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