Are there support groups available for breastfeeding in public?
There certainly are support groups for breastfeeding in public in our area because we do them, and we know that there are lots throughout the country at hospitals at centers like our own where women can go and get that support. Where we have how many a week now Wendy? Seven? At Least between the two stores. We have three in one store and three in another with the moms with babies 0-4 months and then we have another each with babies 4-8 months and they just come in those groups. It isn't just about breastfeeding, they can ask any question and it's deeper than that, it provides a community around their new motherhood. A minute ago I was talking about airplanes and breastfeeding and all but it's more that just breastfeeding, its a respect in our culture that doesn't exist for motherhood. We really don't embrace it we don't support it like other cultures might, we'd love to see that trend change. So these groups provide that place, that community if you will, that coffee clach. That shared environment where they don't just rely on us. We are in the room facilitating and answering the difficult questions that they don't know but they share with each other. We'll turn it back to the mothers all the time how do you handle that, what are you doing about settling your baby for night, what are you doing about nursing your in public, you traveled recently, what was your biggest tip? And certainly Leche League has been out there for many many many years providing support and grassroots for moms. They are probably in every city, they certainly try to be and then we would certainly send it out there to moms that if your in a community where there a not a lot of breastfeeding moms that you are aware of, then start your own groups, reach out to each other. I was in a group like that, it developed two times with two of my children, I lived in a community where that wasn't anything like what we have, so I met some other women who were having babies in my Lamaze class and we just started meeting on a weekly basis, and I'm still, we are dancing at each of those kids wedding today it is great we are still friends with those people.
