I was at a local consignment sale this past week and had the pleasure of meeting some awesome new crunchy mama's in the area. When LLL came up I was asked a question that honestly I had never been asked before... "So do you all nurse each others babies?"
Personally I have not done this. She went on to inform me that several people she knows do not attend LLL meetings because of this. They have been told that we are basically a cult who cross nurse each others kids until they are well into elementary school. (Insert gasp here) Yes I am nursing a 26 month old, and Yes there is no end in sight for us at the moment, however this could change at any moment. We believe in child lead weaning and that is what works for us. I also would not be against nursing someone else', especially a family member's, child if the situation warranted it. If I ran into a baby that was obviously starving to death and I were producing milk I would absolutely pick up that baby and nurse it!
LLL is not a cult. It is a mother to mother support system for breastfeeding mama's. In our household we so lovingly refer to it as the "Tittie committee" (please do not take offense to this, it is just our little inside pet name) The group I belong to is an awesome group of laid back ladies just coming together over a common bond... To provide the most natural and wonderful start to our little one's life's in the best way we know how. We do not all cloth diaper, home school, no vax, co sleep, ect... We pick and choose what fits into our particular life style.
So if you are curious, check it out. Go here to find a local meeting and mosey on over to a tittie committee near you!
~Mama
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