By: Clementé L.
Editor’s Be aware: Stay, Love, Latch!® is a Nationwide Breastfeeding Month celebration created by La Leche League USA to focus on neighborhood assist for breastfeeding, chestfeeding, and human milk feeding. Native occasions might be hosted by LLL USA Teams from August 1 by means of September 9 this 12 months. To seek out extra data and an occasion location close to you, try the map at https://lllusa.org/live-love-latch/.
After I was inspired by a co-Chief to take up the open Stay, Love, Latch!® Coordinator place, I used to be extraordinarily nervous and felt overwhelmed. It appeared prefer it was an enormous enterprise, however I used to be reassured by my different Chief pals that I’d be okay. By way of my first expertise coordinating the nationwide occasion for LLL USA, I discovered quite a bit about myself, the wants of LLL USA Leaders/Teams, and the superb supportive Leaders who poured into me alongside the best way. There’s an incredible staff behind the scenes of Stay, Love, Latch!®, comparable to Leaders, committee members and the LLL USA Council.
Stay, Love, Latch!® is a novel Nationwide Breastfeeding Month celebration, created and offered by La Leche League USA and hosted by LLL USA Teams throughout the US and past. Stay, Love, Latch!® occasions are designed not solely to rejoice breastfeeding but in addition to focus on neighborhood assist.
This celebration gives a chance to coach household, pals, healthcare suppliers, and different neighborhood members in regards to the methods they will assist breastfeeding and emphasizes the worth of the assist community behind each nursing dyad. Stay, Love, Latch!® occasions assist present the neighborhood that LLL USA is a crucial useful resource for every particular person lactation journey. We need to share our FREE information and sources.
Occasions happen throughout Nationwide Breastfeeding Month, which is acknowledged in August and into September this 12 months. In 2023, LLL USA held 22 Stay, Love, Latch!® occasions throughout the nation with almost a thousand members in complete!
Take a Look Again at Previous Stay, Love, Latch!® Occasions
Over the previous ten years since LLL USA began the celebration, Stay, Love, Latch!® has supplied many fascinating options. Have a look by means of a few of these hyperlinks to study extra about previous occasions.
In 2022 and 2023, La Leche League of Southern California/Nevada sponsored a nationwide digital artwork tour that was supplied by way of recorded webinar by ArtMuseLA. Study extra about “The Artwork and Historical past of Lactation: Toddler and Younger Youngster Feeding” right here.
Some Stay, Love, Latch!® occasions in 2019 supplied screenings of Chocolate Milk, in addition to many great native occasions. Throughout the pandemic years, a digital 5K Run, Stroll, Trip helped breastfeeding supporters to rejoice collectively wherever they lived whereas accumulating donations and getting train. All celebrations present different alternatives to coach household, pals, healthcare suppliers, and different neighborhood members about methods they will assist breastfeeding. Stay, Love, Latch!® additionally emphasizes the worth of the assist community behind each nursing household.
Picnics are an effective way to collect households and rejoice the reward of human milk! Prizes, actions, and video games convey the neighborhood collectively in assist of nursing households. This overview of 1 Stay, Love, Latch!® picnic highlights an instance of 1 LLL USA Group that supplied an enriching occasion for all members. There are such a lot of methods to rejoice!
Discover a Stay, Love, Latch!® 2024 Occasion!
This 12 months, La Leche League USA Leaders and Teams all around the US and Mexico are getting ready to rejoice Stay, Love, Latch!® once more. The theme for this 12 months’s Stay, Love, Latch!® is “Sure, You Can!” Members are inspired to make use of the hashtags #LiveLoveLatch #LiLoLa2024 and #LiveLoveLatch2024 on social media to assist join everybody’s occasions! To seek out extra data and an occasion close to you, go to the occasion map at https://lllusa.org/live-love-latch/.
Supporting Breastfeeding Households–At the moment, Tomorrow, All the time
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