La Leche League of South Bend

Thinking about starting solids? Dealing with a picky toddler or preschooler? Wondering about how best to care for your own nutritional needs as a nursing mother? At next week's meeting we'll share ideas for introducing first foods and encouraging nutritious eating for ourselves and our children.  We'll start with our 15 minute video about baby-led solids, and then move into our meeting. As always, we will have room for  your breastfeeding questions, concerns, and successes. We're looking forward to seeing you at 10am on Tuesday, May 28th Women's Care Center 360 N. Notre Dame Ave. (where it intersects with La Salle Ave.) South Bend, Indiana 46617

Summer is almost upon us--does anyone have plans for a beach visit? Roadtrip? Airplane journey? Looking for summer activities in Michiana to enjoy with your babies and toddlers? Summer adventures can bring new challenges when we're attempting them with our nurslings. Tuesday's meeting will be a chance for us to share tips and ideas about traveling and fun in the sun with wee ones.  Of course we will always have time for concerns you might have and insights you'd like to share, along with general chatting, support, and  library perusal. Looking forward to seeing you Tuesday, May 21 at 10am Sunnyside Presbyterian Church 115 S. Frances St. South Bend, IN 46617

Join us Tuesday , May 14 at 7 pm at River Park Branch library to discuss "Becoming a Mother".  How has becoming a mother changed your life and how you define yourself?  How has it changed your relationship with your partner and/or other children. Happy Mother's Day to all of you. As always, bring your baby with you and any questions you have as well.

We have our own Zazzle shop ! Check out all the cool stuff you can get and keep checking it out for new items. With Art Beat coming up this summer we thought a great way to announce the Zazzle shop would be to have a design contest. You create an original design for breastfeeding advocacy and submit it to lllofsouthbend.gmail.com by June 15th. Winner will receive a free t-shirt with their original design and all of our love and gratitude;) 

We're back outside! And what better way to celebrate the recent lactivist successes in our community, then to take to the park? We'll be at Parkovash Park ( http://sbpark.org/parks/parkovash-park/ ) between 10 and noon next Tuesday, May 7. Join your fellow Mamas for some informal chat time and play time for kiddos. No baby is too young for a mama to benefit from a playgroup! (Even the ones still safely inutero!) And for those of you who missed it, here are links to the local breastfeeding news of the week: http://www.southbendtribune.com/news/sbt-women-hold-nursein-to-normalize-breastfeeding-20130502,0,59465.story http://www.abc57.com/home/top-stories/Mothers-stage-nurse-in-at-Tony-Saccos-205850581.html

The nurse in today at Tony Sacco's was a huge success. There was a large attendance of families and the staff and management at Tony Sacco's were very positive and proactive in their response. They reached out to both La Leche League International and our local La Leche League group to learn what they could do to fix the mistake made and to better train their staff. We were welcomed in and they tried to be as accommodating as possible. The management also applied their fundraising program to the event and 20% of every purchase made by the group is going to LLL of South Bend. This has been such a positive outcome for our area and breastfeeding mothers and we are so excited to be apart of it.