La Leche League

Just wondering if anyone goes to LLL meetings? I have been considering (trying to get up the courage) to join a meeting for ages now, and now that bubs is getting older, it would be nice to have some support from other mums who are feeding.... but I just wondered what to expect at the meetings?

I have just looked online and seen that there is a North Shore meeting in Glenfield once a month, just down the road from our house - anyone go to this meeting?

I LOVE my LLL meetings! A great place to go and feel "normal", and to meet some great people. You should definitely go! I was like you and didn't go along until my DD was over a year old, wish I had gone sooner!!

I was pretty much sold on them the day I piped up with a question about DD's night screaming. Basically everyone IRL I'd talked to said the problem was that I *coddled* her by getting up to her when she cried and I should night wean her. At LLL, the response was "we parent our babies the same way you do, and they don't scream all night. There is probably a health issue bothering her". It was so NICE to have someone say something other than brush me off and blame me. It gave me the confidence I needed to insist on a referral and sure enough, DD had surgery and is now happy and sleeping.

I go to the same one as MamaT. I've found right from the first meeting, when I knew no-one cos MamaT hadn't been yet, they were really welcoming and lovely. I've met some great ladies there (including an awesome lady just down the road in my small rural area, which is awesome).

Its just a general chat about parenting, BF, babies, birth, midwives, whatever really. And people who share similar philosophies as we do. But they aren't judging either, I'm one of the few working mums that are there, and no-one has ever said anything bad to me about that.

Try it. You can always never go again if you dont' like it. You will like it though

Yup I joined 'later' too and they are AWESOME. I luurve my LLL groups (yeah I go to 2 lol).  Totally do it. They are so supportive.

Ive been going since Aiden was a few months old, and LOVE it! Our group is very small, and more often that not its very informal session. One of the leaders normally asks a Q to discuss, but sometimes its the whole session on a topic too.
I was nervous about going, and looked online and rang and talked to one of the leaders, so it was great to already "know" someone when I went there.

Like lots of others have said, I go there to feel normal, lol! I can talk about BLW and EC etc without feeling like a freak or starting a debate or having to constantly defend our parenting decisions.
I can comfortably bf without worrying about what others are thinking about me feeding my wriggly nosy 13months old who likes to show a lot of my boob off to the world by popping on and off and laughing, hehe!

I go and love it.
I find the women to have a similar philosophy to mine on birth, babies and life in general.
Everyone is really inclusive and welcoming (not like some other mothers groups I have come across).

I think that there is a perception that LLL people can be extreme about breastfeeding etc, but I have found that isn't the case. They are just really supportive.