LLLNZ Statement regarding inclusive language
In response to recent enquiries the following statement has been issued here
The Lancet 2023 Series on Breastfeeding
Key messages from The Lancet 2023 Series on BreastfeedingThe 3-paper Lancet Series explores how breastfeeding is undervalued and underinvested in bygovernments and public health while … Read more
2022 LLLNZ Annual Report
Book Review- Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage
Author: Rachel ReedPublisher: Word Witch, 2021Reviewers: Joanne Simpson and Tamsin Kreymborg This is a great book on supporting natural childbirth physiology, and the Herstory of … Read more
Making More Milk, Second Edition
The second edition of Making More Milk by Lisa Marasco, MA, IBCLC and Diana West, BA, IBCLC is now in stock. Get it here
New Board and Management for La Leche League New Zealand
A new era for La Leche League New Zealand (LLLNZ) has started with the separation of governance and management. A new Board was announced on … Read more
My Child’s Behaviour Following Weaning
“Soon after my three-year-old daughter gradually self-weaned, her behaviour seemed to change which I found alarming and difficult to cope with. She has started having … Read more
Extended Breastfeeding
I felt a need say what a help La Leche League was for me with my second child. We had moved to live in China and … Read more
Breastfeeding an Older Child and Weaning with Love
I have two beautiful girls. They are now aged six-and-a-half, and nearly four. I always believed I would breastfed my babies when I had them. My mother … Read more
Sudden Weaning
On July 26th this year, the day my little girl Jessica turned 11 months, she awoke with a bad cold. She refused her morning breastfeed and later in the morning after one small nursing began refusing every time I offered her the breast. I was surprised, as up until that day, she had breastfed happily several times a day and often once or twice during the night as well. By that night I knew something was wrong as she was unhappy and crying a lot and I suspected an ear infection. I was expressing milk and offered her that in a cup. She was otherwise drinking water … Read more