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Starting Solids & Family Nutrition

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Are you thinking about starting solids? Dealing with a picky toddler or preschooler? Concerned about addressing extended family ideas of what your baby should be eating over the holidays? 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. 10am on Tuesday, November 26 Women's Care Center 360 N. Notre Dame Ave. (where it intersects with La Salle Ave.) South Bend, Indiana 46617 **There is still time to submit our name for the 1st Source Bank donation! http://lllofsouthbend.blogspot.com/2013/11/help-us-help-you.html

Help Us Help You :)

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Your La Leche League of South Bend Leaders love nothing more than helping mothers and babies through sharing breastfeeding information and support. If you have a moment, we'd love if you'd use the link below to drop a quick line to 1st Source Bank, telling them that you find us important to the Michiana community. We are a completely volunteer-led group, with no source of income other than memberships and donations. We use what little money we have for expanding our lending-libraries and for Leader training and education. Thank You! https://www.1stsource.com/about-us/150-2

Traveling and Family Dynamics

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At our next meeting we'll share our ideas about dealing with the holidays as parents of young ones. Do you have tips for fielding family questions/opinions about parenting and breastfeeding choices? Traveling with babies and children? Keeping ourselves and our kids healthy in the midst of cookies and germs?  Trying to maintain some semblance of routine amongst the craziness? 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. We're looking forward to seeing you at  10am Tuesday, November 19 Sunnyside Presbyterian Church 115 S. Frances St. South Bend, IN 46617 And save the date for the following week's meeting at Women's Care Center about Starting Solids and Family Nutrition!

Survey on Breastfeeding Toddlers!

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The Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics at the Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York is interested in studying the experiences of mothers who chose to breastfeed their infants beyond one year of age.    They are particularly interested in learning more about these mothers' experiences with their health care providers, families, and friends regarding prolonged nursing and where these mothers found the support they needed. Eventually the researchers' goal is to share the results at the annual Pediatric Academic Societies' meeting --- the preeminent pediatric research meeting.    They also plan to submit the findings to one of the peer-reviewed pediatric journals for publication and perhaps to the American   Academy  of Pediatrics as well. The results could eventually impact the training of young pediatricians during their residencies. This survey is for all mothers who have ever breastfed a child beyond a year. Here is t

Tuesday's Meeting

Join us Tuesday 11/12 at River Park Branch library to discuss Nursing and Traveling/Family Relations.  We will be starting at 7:15 pm instead of the usual 7 pm.  Bring you baby along and any questions or concerns.

LLL Indoor Playgroup!

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Winter seems to be upon us, so we will move our monthly 1st Tuesday playgroup inside until spring! Please join us on Tuesday at the Main Library in downtown South Bend--we have again reserved the Humphrey's room in the basement where there is plenty of room for crawlers to crawl, big kids to play, and mamas and babies to cuddle, nurse, and chat. Feel free to bring toys to share or pop upstairs to borrow books and toys for the morning! And those of you with tiny babes or babes still in utero, please know that this playgroup is for you too! Support from other mothers is what we're all about:) Tuesday, November 5 between 10 and noon 304 South Main Street  South Bend, Indiana 46601  http://www.sjcpl.org/main/ Humphreys Multimedia Room:  http://www.sjcpl.org/meetingrooms/