Triangle Breastfeeding Alliance, Inc.

Breastfeeding: Nature’s Health Plan

March 12-14, 2010
Charlotte Hilton Executive Park

Important Dates:

• Hotel reservation deadline is February 15 – Click HERE to reserve your room On-Line
• Deadline for applying for Leader scholarship is February 15
• Early bird registration to obtain $10 discount on registration is February 20

Conference Flyer

The 2010 Area Conference will be an exciting event and there’s no vacation destination that is as pro-breastfeeding, baby, and family friendly as a La Leche League conference. We will see you there! As one local Leader said, “LLL conferences are wonderful events! I always come away from them with renewed enthusiasm about LLL, valuable information and ideas about parenting, and a big dose of “warm fuzzies” from seeing friends, spending time with family, hearing inspirational speakers, and being around happy children and families (you rarely, if ever, hear a child cry at an LLL conference).”

Speakers

• Marian Tompson – One of the seven Founders of La Leche League International. She was President of La Leche League for 24 years, from 1956 to 1980, and is currently a member of the Founders Advisory Council. Wife of the late Clement Tompson, she is the mother of seven children, grandmother of sixteen, and as of 2007, great-grandmother of five. An early advocate of home birth, four of her children and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren were born at home.
• Diane Wiessinger -Diane Wiessinger holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Cornell University. At her first La Leche League meeting in 1980 she saw a roomful of women all focused on their children, and thought to herself, ‘There is more to me than this.’” However, she went on to become a La Leche League Leader in 1985 and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant in 1990. She has a private practice in Ithaca, NY, has written many breastfeeding resources, most recently co-authoring La Leche League International’s 8th edition of the Womanly Art of Breastfeeding. She has spoken across the English-speaking world. Apparently there isn’t any more to her than this! She is the mother of two breastfed sons, mother-in-law of two wonderful young women and grandmother of two beautiful breastfed children.
• Diana West -Diana West is an international board certified lactation consultant (IBCLC) in private practice, co-author with Teresa Pitman and Diane Wiessinger of the 8th edition of La Leche League International’s “The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding.” She is also co-author with Lisa Marasco of “The Breastfeeding Mother’s Guide to Making More Milk” and Dr. Elliot Hirsch of “Breastfeeding After Breast and Nipple Procedures.” She is the author of the “Clinician’s Breastfeeding Triage Tool” and “Defining Your Own Success: Breastfeeding After Breast Reduction Surgery.” She has a bachelor’s degree in psychology, is a La Leche League Leader, a website developer, and administrator of the popular BFAR.org, LowMilkSupply.org, and LactSpeak.com websites. Diana has been a member of the Board of Directors for the International Lactation Consultant Association. She lives with her three sons and one husband in the picturesque mountains of western New Jersey.
• Janet Jendron – Janet Jendron, President of the Attatchment Parenting International Board of Directors, has been a long-time supporter of API. She served for eleven years on the LLLI Board of Directors and many years on the LLLI Alumnae Association Council. Janet has also served on numerous other non-profit Boards, including church-related and wish granting organizations. She has written articles and spoken at conferences throughout the United States on a wide variety of issues related to her non-profit and paid work. The mother of four children ages 25 to 33, she spends as much time as possible with her five-year-old granddaughter Mary Grace. She lives in South Carolina near Columbia and works full time at the USC School of Medicine in the SC Assistive Technology Program, where she specializes in information technology accessibility, conference planning, equipment reutilization and public relations.
• Jan Ellen Brown – credits the support of LLL for salvaging her breastfeeding relationship with her first baby. A former LLL Leader, Jan Ellen became an IBCLC in 1991. She has worked as a hospital based lactation consultant and operated a private home visit practice. She is currently the IBCLC for Charlotte Pediatric Clinic. Jan Ellen serves on the Board of Directors for BELLAS peer counselor program. She is the co-author with Kathleen Huggins of 25 Things Every Nursing Mother Needs to Know(2009) and The Nursing Mother’s Companion Diary, available Fall 2010. She is a frequent conference speaker and Little Ones magazine contributor

For more info:   http://www.lllofnc.org/Conference.html

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