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Index of LEAVEN Articles, 1995-1999

LEAVEN is the bimonthly publication for LLL Leaders. We hope you will find this collection of worthwhile LEAVEN articles from past issues to be a valuable resource.

While we have classed the articles on our web site by topic, we know that a listing by date and issue is also useful, so we are also providing this listing. This listing is by issue in reverse chronological order, in 5-year increments. Look at the sidebar at left for additional years.

We provide articles from our publications from previous years for reference for our Leaders and members. Readers are cautioned to remember that research and medical information change over time.

Looking for an article you don't see? Feel free to suggest additions. Providing the issue and year of publication will help us locate your article.

CONTENTS

December 1999-January 2000

• p. 123: Congenital Disorders: Implications for Breastfeeding
• p. 129: Managing the Group Online
• p. 130: Introducing Complementary Foods
• p. 132: How to Have a 48 Hour Day, presented by Don Aslett (1999 LLLI Conference session report)
• p. 132: Lighting the Lamp, by Carol Lee Flinders (1999 LLLI Conference session report)
• p. 133: How to Live a Charmed Life, presented by Victoria Moran (1999 LLLI Conference session report)
• p. 134: New Perspectives on Engorgement
• p. 136: Book Review: Being Prepared to Let Go . . . Gradually
• p. 137: The Education Campaign Comes to a Close
• p. 138: One Group's Testimonial (promoting membership at meetings)
• p. 139: Introducing the New Leader Recommendation Form
• p. 140: Body Language: One More Tool For Communication
• p. 141: Why Am I Still a La Leche League Leader?
• p. 143: Gift Giving Time (why volunteer Leaders contribute to LLLI)

[ contents ]

October-November 1999

• p. 99: Helping a Mother with a Baby Who Is Reluctant to Nurse
• p. 106: Seasons of a Woman's Life, presented by Nancy Franklin (1999 LLLI Conference session report)
• p. 107: Believe It or Not: Breastfeeding Myths Perpetuated by Culture, Society and the Health Care System (1999 LLLI Conference session report)
• p. 107: Breastfeeding Is a Contact Sport A Lively Outside-the-Box Look at Breastfeeding in the Context of Other Adult Behaviors, Society's Values and Economic Priorities, presented by Coach Linda Smith (1999 LLLI Conference session report)
• p. 108: Breastfeeding in Emergency and Relief Situations: refugee camps, war, famine, earthquakes and other natural disasters (1999 LLLI Conference session report)
• p. 109: Book Review: Sisters on a Journey, Portraits of American Midwives
• p. 109: Breastfeeding and Its Global Impact (1999 LLLI Conference session report)
• p. 110: Working with the Mothering Experience Prerequisite
• p. 111: Picture a Leader: Leaders Focus on Accreditation
• p. 113: Help! This Mother Needs More Than I Can Give
• p. 116: Unresolved Conflict
• p. 117: Letters to LLLI: In the Public Eye (tips for working with the media: television, newspapers, etc.)
• p. 118: Recently, a Study About Co-Sleeping Received Widespread Publicity in the USA. (press release on co-sleeping)
• p. 119: Attendance and Membership Are Linked
• p. 120: Thank You, Walkers!

[ contents ]

August-September 1999

• p. 75: Supplementing the Breastfeeding Baby
• p. 80: The Series Meeting: Practical Ways the Leader and Applicant Can Work Together
• p. 81: A Conversation with the Founders
• p. 82: Letters to LLLI: Tapes and Topics in Group Libraries
• p. 84: Finding Your Balance
• p. 86: First Impressions at an LLL Display
• p. 86: Returning the Favor (answering Help Forms)
• p. 87: Couples Meeting: Parenting the Breastfed Baby
• p. 88: Book Review: The A.D.D. Book: New Understandings, New Approaches to Parenting Your Child
• p. 89: Questions on Using Medications
• p. 92: LLLI Peer Counselor Programs: Who, What and Why?
• p. 93: More Than a Quick Fix
• p. 94: Breastfeeding Support: When It Works, When It Doesn't
• p. 95: The HotLLLine Needs You!
• p. 96: The Leader's Apprentice

[ contents ]

June-July 1999

• p. 51: Helping the Visually Impaired or Blind Mother Breastfeed
• p. 56: Why All These Letters?
• p. 62: Nighttime Parenting: An Age-Old Concern
• p. 64: Nipple Piercing: Is It Compatible with Breastfeeding?
• p. 68: Leader's Handbook Italian Translation
• p. 69: Mixing Causes, Or Not?
• p. 70: Full Circle: Leader Returns as Grandmother (Reactivating as a Leader)

[ contents ]

April-May 1999

• p. 26: Report from the Board: The WHO Code--A Primer for Leaders
• p. 29: Cutting Breast Cancer Risk: Reason to Breastfeed
• p. 30: When a Leader's Beliefs Become Mixing Causes
• p. 32: When Baby Is Hospitalized
• p. 38: Book Review: Our Babies Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent
• p. 40: Advertising Exhibits and Policies
• p. 42: Getting to Know Group Members
• p. 43: Business Cards: Small But Impressive
• p. 44: Back to the Basics
• p. 45: Membership Matters
• p. 47: Leaders and the WHO Code

[ contents ]

February-March 1999

• p. 3: Mother-Child Transmission of HIV
• p. 5: The Advantages of Doing More for LLL
• p. 6: Evaluating Your Effectiveness as a Leader
• p. 12: Prerequisite Guidelines Stimulate Discussion
• p. 15: Book Review: The Power of Mother Love
• p. 16: Keeping Up-to-Date: Your Leader's Log
• p. 17: One Year Later: THE LEADER'S HANDBOOK
• p. 19: The Art of Organization
• p. 20:Translations, Translations, Translations

[ contents ]

December 1998 - January 1999

• p. 115: A Quick Look at Breastfeeding's Most Revolutionary Year Yet
• p. 119: Where Do You Go When You Need to Know More? (appropriate use of LLL resources in answering helping questions)
• p. 120: Online Help Forms and the New Leader
• p. 121: All Mothers Are Equal: Being Sensitive to Family Size
• p. 122: Letters to LLLI: More on Cooperative Action
• p. 126: Helping "Invisible" Mothers (Promoting Membership Column)
• p. 127: Membership Matters
• p. 128: Natural Child Spacing and Breastfeeding
• p. 129: Many Pictures of LLLI Philosophy
• p. 130: Helping Mothers When You Have Strong Feelings about Their Choices
• p. 132: Book Review: Milk, Money and Madness
• p. 133: Working Together When Ideas Differ

[ contents ]

October-November 1998

• p. 91: Yeast Infections and the Breastfeeding Family
• p. 97: Using Human Relations Enrichment (HRE) In Hebrew?
• p. 98: Worth a Thousand Words (Using visual aids to promote membership at meetings)
• p. 99: Speaking the Same Language: Breastfeeding (Leading meetings where mothers speak different languages)
• p. 102: Dietary Choices and DHA Supplementation
• p. 105: Book Review: The Homeschooling Handbook
• p. 106: Tips for Leaders with Preschoolers or Homeschooled Children
• p. 108: Using the Breastfeeding Resource Guide

[ contents ]

August-September 1998

• p. 74: LLL at Chapter Meetings
• p. 76: Save Yourself from Your List (basic Leader responsibilities)
• p. 78: To Breastfeed or Not: PKU, Galactosemia, Other Rare Disorders and Possible Misdiagnosis
• p. 84: Leader/Lactation Consultant: Separating the Two Roles
• p. 85: Book Review: Nurturing the Future: Our First Five Years

[ contents ]

June-July 1998

• p. 43: Sage Advice on Herbs and Breastfeeding
• p. 49: Book Review: Healing Childhood Ear Infections: Prevention, Home Care and Alternative Treatment
• p. 52: Helping Leader Applicants: Problem-Solving Approaches
• p. 53: Membership Sale!
• p. 56: Getting a New Group Off the Ground
• p. 58: Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Critical Listening
• p. 60: OJT: On the Job Training

[ contents ]

April-May 1998

• p. 19: Counseling Challenges: Helping Mothers Handle Conflicting Information (suggestions for helping mothers who may be following Gary Ezzo's On Becoming Babywise or other parenting programs)
• p. 20: Background Information for Leaders (more suggestions for helping mothers who may be following Gary Ezzo's On Becoming Babywise or other parenting programs)
• p. 21: Common Breastfeeding Myths (refutes 24 common myths about breastfeeding; includes references for each)
• p. 24: Sequencing Spells Relief (applying the sequencing idea to one's time as a Leader)
• p. 25: Antidepressant Medication Use during Breastfeeding
• p. 26: Initial Thoughts (the most important initials after our name are M.O.M.)
• p. 27: Leading and Managing an LLL Group in Cape Town, South Africa
• p. 28: The Introspective Leader: Letting Your Voice Be Heard at Meetings
• p. 31: To Push or Not to Push?
• p. 36: Mentors in Mothering
• p. 37: Making Time When Opportunity Rings

[ contents ]

February-March 1998

• p. 3: Beyond Toddlerhood: The Breastfeeding Relationship Continues
• p. 9: Co-Managing the Group

[ contents ]

December 1997-January 1998

• p. 123: The Importance of Newborn Stool Counts
• p. 131: Using Conference Tapes in the Group Library
• p. 135: Confessions of a Bottle-Feeding Leader
• p. 139: In a "League of Their Own" (Making your Group welcome for new attendees)
• p. 141: Letters to LLLI: La Leche League: What's In a Name? (Should LLLI change its name?)
• p. 142: Who, Me? Speak in Public?

[ contents ]

October-November 1997

• p. 99: How Leaders Can Avoid Mixing Causes
• p. 103: Smoothing the Transition from Leader Applicant to Leader
• p. 105: Reaching the Burned-Out Mother
• p. 115: Weight Loss while Breastfeeding
• p. 116: Letters to LLLI: Extending our Reach through Cooperative Action
• p. 117: Does This Mother Really Have to Wean? Questions Leaders Can Ask
• p. 118: Introductions and NEW BEGINNINGS
• p. 120: Can You Find Time for Extra Meetings?

[ contents ]

August-September 1997

• p. 75: Allergies and the Breastfeeding Family
• p. 78: Breaking Up Isn't Hard to Do (splitting a Group)
• p. 79: Respecting Cultural Differences
• p. 81: The LLLI Web Site: A New Tool for Helping Mothers and Managing Your Group
• p. 83: Help Forms and LLL Chat
• p. 84: "Netiquette:" Email Etiquette for Leaders
• p. 86: Letters to LLLI: Center for Breastfeeding Information
• p. 89: Grant Funds Community Awareness (Grant writing tips)
• p. 90: A to Z: 26 Reasons to Nurse Your Baby
• p. 92: Fundraising Ideas
• p. 95: Handling Crank Calls

[ contents ]

June-July 1997

• p. 54: Free and Easy Publicity
• p. 55: BREASTFEEDING ANSWER BOOK Sales as a Fundraiser
• p. 56: Letters to LLLI: Ads and Exhibits Guidelines
• p. 58: Helping Fathers Is Helping Mothers
• p. 69: The Vegetarian Breastfeeding Mother

[ contents ]

April-May 1997

• p. 27: Breastfeeding and the Sexual Abuse Survivor
• p. 30: Alcohol and Motherhood (research suggests occasional use of alcohol in limited amounts is compatible with breastfeeding)
• p. 32: Welcoming a Move-In Leader
• p. 33: Using LLL Publications to Enliven Meetings
• p. 34: The Ideal Applicant
• p. 39: Medications and Breastfeeding

[ contents ]

February-March 1997

• p. 7: Strategies for Managing Breastfeeding Calls
• p. 10: Ask Not What LLL Can Do for You... Ask What You Can Do for LLLI
• p. 15: Just Helping a Mother Breastfeed
• p. 19: Sounding Off - Effectively

[ contents ]

October-November 1996

• p. 69: LLL and the Internet
• p. 71: Information Superhighway Road Map: A Glossary of Terms
• p. 74: Leaders and Peer Counselors: Differences and Similarities
• p. 77: Oh, Those Toddlers! (Suggestions for dealing with toddlers at meetings)

[ contents ]

August-September 1996

• p. 53: Do You "C" What I "C"? (The importance of Cause, Corporation, and Community within LLL)
• p. 55: Writing a Grant to Attend the LLLI Conference

[ contents ]

June-July 1996

• p. 35: When a New Mother Is Depressed
  

[ contents ]

February-March 1996

• p. 5: Introducing the New LLLI Group Bibliography
• p. 7: Behind the Scenes: Developing Effective Leader Skills (provides examples of qualities of effective Leaders)
• p. 12: Discipline For Life: An Outgrowth of Attachment Parenting
• p. 14: When They Criticize LLL

[ contents ]

November-December-January 1995-1996

• p. 97: Co-Leaders: Establishing, Maintaining, and Improving Relationships (dealing with co-Leader conflicts; ways to strengthen bonds between co-Leaders)
• p. 104: Mother to Mother: Our Greatest Strength (tells how the qualifications and duties of a Leader are unique among breastfeeding support personnel)

[ contents ]

September-October 1995

• p. 69: Finish the First Breast First
• p. 69: Common Side Effects of an Overactive Let-Down (sidebar from "Finish the First Breast First")
• p. 71: Overactive Let-Down: Consequences and Treatment
• p. 72: Is Milk Supposed to Leak?

[ contents ]

July-August 1995

• p. 53: Wet Nursing and Cross Nursing
• p. 57: Working as Co-Leaders at Series Meetings

[ contents ]

May-June 1995

• p. 35: Nursing During Pregnancy
• p. 40: Who Shares Your Group?

[ contents ]

March-April 1995

• p. 28: Couples Meetings: Including the Breastfeeding Father

[ contents ]

January-February 1995

• p. 5: Where Do Toddlers Belong at Series Meetings?
• p. 7: Let Mothers Choose Membership (suggestions for promoting membership)
• p. 13: Lone Leading (suggestions for promoting membership)

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