Friends of La Leche League

Friends of La Leche League (formerly the LLL Alumnae Association) invites you to browse our site and learn more about our organization.

Let’s connect if you are:

• an active or retired La Leche League Leader
• a current or former La Leche League member
• breastfeeding
• a parent of a child from toddler to teen to adult
• a grandparent
• an advocate for breastfeeding!

To join or renew your membership, please click here.

Friends of LLL awarded over $22,000 to thirteen projects from eight countries: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Paraguay, South Africa, Morocco, New Zealand, England and the United States of America. Requirements were that the projects either be submitted by an LLL Leader or have a letter of recommendation written by an LLL Leader or Friends of LLL member. These projects were:

• A health professional and parent educational event in Morocco, with donated copies of The Art of Breastfeeding for a breastfeeding resource center and translation of material into Moroccan Arabic
• Outreach to expectant and new parents in the Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA area with flyers distributed to local healthcare providers offices, hospitals and new parents’ welcome bags
• A brunch in Vero Beach, Florida, USA for National Breastfeeding Month welcoming breastfeeding families, LLL members, LLL Leaders, lactation and healthcare professionals where copies of The Art of Breastfeeding were distributed to expectant and new mothers
• LLL New Zealand Alumnae Association to attract new members prior to their Area Conference
• A breastfeeding room for those with asylum or refugee status, migrant, or unhoused where they are safe and have privacy to feed their children or express milk; The Art of Breastfeeding as well as children’s books and toys are available there, as well, supported by LLL Widnes and St. Helens, England
• Free Little Libraries featuring The Art of Breastfeeding, as well as other books with LLL contact information inside them, with a kickoff picnic by LLL Canonsburg/Cecil, Pennsylvania, USA
• Financial assistance for Gwyneth Jacobs, South African LLL Leader, developer of the LLL South Africa Facebook page, to attend the International Congress of LLL IAN in Lima, Peru; she will share knowledge, inspiration and ideas gained there with other Area Leaders
• A mini-conference by The Breastfeeding Center in coordination with LLL Montgomery County East, Pennsylvania, USA with CERPS offered and open to lactation professionals as well as LLL Leaders
• Supporting Paula Rodriguez Arredondo, LLL Leader from the Dominican Republic to participate in the LLL IAN International Conference in Lima, Peru; she has committed to accrediting at least three new Leaders in the six months following the award and will train as a Communication Skills Facilitator; additionally, she is organizing a public event to celebrate thirty-five years of LLL Republica Dominicana
• Assisting Zulma Graciela Chera Ramirez, LLL Leader in Paraguay, in her efforts to create and translate culturally sensitive breastfeeding content in the Guarani language, widely spoken throughout Paraguay, and currently without breastfeeding resources
• Funding for a screening of the “Chocolate Milk” documentary about Black breastfeeding, sponsored by LLL Leaders of Savannah, Georgia, USA in conjunction with Healthy Savannah, follow up meetings after the screening and The Art of Breastfeeding copies given to forty pregnant or nursing mothers attending the screening, plus 24 copies of TAB donated to the twelve branches of the Savannah Public Libraries
• Micelys Torres Sanchez, LLL Leader from Havana, Cuba, plus two Leader Applicants were given assistance to participate in the LLL IAN International Conference in Lima, Peru with plans to educate other Cuban Leaders
• Community screening of “Chocolate Milk” during Black Maternal Health Week in Nebraska, USA with Q&A following with local lactation professionals and advocates, a raffle for three copies of The Art of Breastfeeding, and a raffle for a partial scholarship for a B.L.A.C.K. Certified Lactation Consultant course
  

Do you miss the sense of community you felt at LLL Series Meetings or Leader/Leader Applicant Days? Every month, members of Friends of La Leche League meet online for a discussion on an interesting topic in a warm, relaxed, and caring atmosphere.

Our monthly Chats are a popular benefit of membership, and a great way for members to get to know new people, stay in touch, and support each other. We welcome first-time participants to attend a Chat and see if they like it before joining Friends of LLL. Please contact Jo-Anne if you would like to volunteer to lead a discussion. Information about each month’s Chat and details about how to register are published each month on our website News Page.

For more than twenty years, Friends of La Leche League has honored deceased LLL Leaders through the “We Remember” program. Leaders are listed on our website by name and year of death. A ceremony in which the Leaders names are read was initiated at the 2001 LLL International Conference and has been held at conferences and Friends of LLL trips since then. To honor all deceased Leaders, we urge Friends who learn of the death of any LLL Leader to pass along information using this “We Remember” Form.

Friends of LLL also wants to honor all individuals who have inspired us. Our Tributes page includes personalized tributes honoring special people. Tributes are posted on our website for one year and included in Continuum magazine. You can write a tribute honoring someone important to you by using this form.

The “Honors” option on our main menu provides direct access to the “We Remember” and Tributes pages and forms. Friends of La Leche League is proud to honor those who have inspired us.