La Leche League Picnic 2010

We had a wonderful World Breastfeeding Week Picnic this year at Maynor Creek Water Park. I'm so grateful for all the help from everyone to get this picnic together, and especially from Michelle!

Left to right: Lexi, Michelle, Christy holding Shepard, Monicah and Chrimson, Scotie, Missy holding Oscar, Denise, Melissa, Patrick and Kristen

Top Photo: Michelle and Missy

Bottom Photo: Denise and Missy

Patrick, Scotie, and a few other children had their faces painted.

Top Photo: Christy, Shepard and Monicah

Bottom Photo: Janie, Oscar and Rosetta

Since it's still early in the year for World Breastfeeding Week activities, I can't wait to see what everyone else will have going on. I'm hoping to have a breastfeeding display in a local library. Kristen and I will be doing another demo at the food center like we did last year. We'll also be having our breastfeeding class on August 2nd and will probably have a similar celebration as last year.

August Class & WBW Celebration

Monday night was the breastfeeding class for Wayne county. We sent out special invitations hoping to draw more people to the class. Our average is 4.3 people per class and last night we had 7 attend!

We set up a table full of extra pamphlets that we don't usually put in our folders, goodies for them to take and books to look at.

We had yummy food. We need to start having healthy snacks at our classes instead, but since this was a WBW celebration as well, we had not-so-healthy food. Anyone have some really good healthy snack ideas? (looking back, I said the same thing about the last class...)

We had balloons! It's not a party without balloons!

Everyone got a folder full of pamphlets and handouts, a world breastfeeding week button, a few breastfeeding stickers, a name tag, a piece of paper to take notes on, a pen to write with, an evaluation form to fill out and a little card that they can fill out if they'd like more information about anything specific.
We played the breastfeeding treasures game, which is always really fun, and then drew names out to give out more prizes. Everyone ended up winning something!

We have a box that they can drop their evaluation forms in.

We have our doll, Aiden, who we demonstrate positioning with. I encouraged the moms to gather around me while I demonstrated last night. I felt they could see better and were asking more questions because it didn't feel so formal.

We also had some fake poo. I don't remember which website I found the recipe on, but it said it was an Amy Spangler recipe:

• 1 t. mustard
• 2 t. sesame seeds
• 1 T. cottage cheese
• For meconium—use molasses
• For transitional stool—use molasses + baby poop

we felt it was a bit too thick and could use a bit of watering down (perhaps with milk).

WIC Food Center Set-Up

Kristen and I set up a table (or 3) at our WIC Food Center on August 5th for World Breastfeeding Week. This was our first time setting up at the food center. What does everyone else usually do?

Kristen sitting at our table

Here are some of the things we had for moms. After awhile we filled a bunch of the goody bags to leave in the shopping carts.

We also served refreshments! We had WIC juice and cheese and a few things Kristen and I baked. Also on this table: One of our entry boxes for our WBW Contest (currently EMPTY). Any ideas how to get moms to enter? We've got great prizes to give away!

La Leche League Picnic 2009

A few pictures from the picnic on Saturday:

Hopefully my first of many LLL picnics..

here is what i am doing gonig to the LLL on saturday picnic then going with missy promote breastfeeding at the wayne dis center on wenesday and having fun fun fun

Three More Days!

Only three more days until World Breastfeeding Week! What is everyone doing to celebrate?

On my agenda:

• August 1st - Posting a picture of a breastfeeding mom on my Facebook profile for the M.I.L.C. Virtual Nurse-In.
• August 1st - Attending the La Leche League Family Picnic.
• August 5th - Kristen and I will be setting up a table with refreshments and breastfeeding information at our Wayne County WIC Food Center.
• Ongoing - We have an essay contest in Wayne County until the 21st to win fabulous prizes.

I'd love to see what everyone else is up to!

This is my picture for my Facebook profile: Danielle, Aaron (4 months), Oscar (almost 1 year) & Missy - Having a picnic!

Health Fair Photos

Here are a few pictures I took at the health fair this afternoon:

Kristen with our little setup. Big giant thanks to Scot for the tent! I am very grateful that I don't look like a lobster.

Our presentation board. I don't think anyone actually read a word on it (besides 'breastfeeding')- so if you're planning on making one, use lots of pictures! Also, large pieces of cardboard do not stand well on windy days. We provided the other health fair participants lots of free entertainment while we tried to catch our presentation board every time it blew away!

Table full of pamphlets. We also had various fliers available to anyone that wanted more information, but no good way to display them.

I think freebies were the main draw to the event, so it's a good thing we took bracelets and a few stickers from noodle soup. Kristen managed to sell 10 of our bows! yay Kristen!

Missy and I participated in the Wayne county health fair and survived the heat. And hopefully planted the seed of breastfeeding in someone.