B+C+B+C+B+C: LLL Spring Workshop

Sunday, June 23, 2013

LLL Spring Workshop

My friend and fellow La Leche League Leader Timbra just posted these pics from our Spring Workshop so I thought I'd share. I'm not sure why I'm making the lovely face in the middle left pic, but likely because I was sitting in the same spot in the lowerlower right for like 2 hrs straight. I get a little cwaaaazy sitting that long.
I love our semi-annual LLL workshops. They're for all the Leaders in Utah (plus a little WY and ID). These women are amazing. All busy moms, but make time to volunteer their time and resources to help other mothers needing assistance with breastfeeding. In centuries past, women received support for feeding their babies from their sisters/mothers/aunts in their communities. Nowadays, women don't often have that support. So we re-create that with La Leche League. It's mother-to-mother support. Except these lactation helpers have the real info. The research, the tools, the common sense. I love learning from them. April was my one-year anniversary of becoming an official Leader. I've come so far since then and realize I have SO much more to learn. This workshop focused on the usual - updates from the individual groups (I'm part of the Salt Lake group, but would love to start one in Davis County, since the next closest group is in Ogden), Communications training, cont. ed. opportunities, etc. Then the loooong training on Ankyloglossia (aka tongue tie/maxillary ties) from Karin and Susan, our IBCLC/LLL Leaders (and likely the most brilliant lactation consultants on the planet). Very eye-opening for me, and I now shudder at all the tongue tie issues I now realize I came across in the past and wasn't experienced enough to spot. And made me go home and immediately assess my own family. Bennett - nope. Brian - nope. Brianna - major upper lip tie (causing her front teeth gap). Courtney - posterior tongue tie. Which explains why she usually nursed twice as long as Bennett and caused such pain in the beginning. If I were to work in Lactation, I think I'd prefer to be a WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counselor versus an IBCLC. I love, love, love helping moms... but IBCLCs deal with all the crazy complex cases. But I like the everyday stuff - especially working to dispel common bf myths. We'll see if I ever do more than just volunteering. It took me 2 hours just to write this post, since I had to get up 5000 times to help someone with something. What makes me think I can make time for anything else?! :)

4 comments:

Sally Jackson said...: Sounds like a great workshop! So happy you are enjoying your volunteer work!; June 23, 2013 at 8:24 PM
Melanie said...: I wish I knew about your expertise on this subject when I had Carson. I needed some major help!; June 24, 2013 at 6:55 AM
Jan said...: Oh my gosh Chelsea - give me a call 509 466-3434!!; June 26, 2013 at 6:36 AM
Melissa said...: I am amazed at all that you are able to do, even with your three little ones. I will always be so thankful to the specialist that helped me out with nursing Jenna. I had such a rough start but those times feeding and cuddling her are some of my favorite memories with her as a baby.
Melissa; June 26, 2013 at 7:01 PM

Quotes I want to remember

"The Lord knows our bearing capacity, both as to coping and to comprehending, and He will not give us more to bear than we can manage at the moment, though to us it may seem otherwise. Just as no temptations will come to us from which we cannot escape or which we cannot bear, we will not be given more trials than we can sustain."
- Neal A. Maxwell

"It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters. We become enamored with men's theories such as the idea of preschool training outside the home for young children. Not only does this put added pressure on the budget, but it places young children in an environment away from mother's influence."
-Ezra Taft Benson

“Perhaps there has never been a time when we had greater need to pray and to teach our family members to pray. Prayer is a defense against temptation. It is through earnest and heartfelt prayer that we can receive the needed blessings and the support required to make our way in this sometimes difficult and challenging journey we call mortality.”
-Thomas S. Monson

“Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. And bear your testimony! Don’t just assume your children will somehow get the drift of your beliefs on their own.
-Jeffrey R. Holland

"We hold in our arms the rising generation. They come to this earth with important responsibilities and great spiritual capacities. We cannot be casual in how we prepare them. Our challenge as parents and teachers is not to create a spiritual core in their souls but rather to fan the flame of their spiritual core already aglow with the fire of their premortal faith."
-Neil L. Andersen

"Certainly there are times when getting the family together to read the scriptures does not stack up as a spiritual experience worthy of a journal entry. But we must not be deterred. There are special times when the spirit of a son or daughter is just right and the power of these great scriptures goes down into their heart like fire. As we honor our Heavenly Father in our homes, He will honor our efforts."
-Neil L. Andersen

President Hinckley admonished both men and women to be nurturers. He said, ‘How much more beautiful would be the society in which we live if every father . . . and . . . mother regarded [their] children . . . as gifts from the God of heaven . . . and brought them up with true affection in the wisdom and admonition of the Lord.’ ”
-Susan W. Tanner

"Children are like trees. When they are young, their lives can be shaped and directed, usually with ever so little effort. Said the writer of Proverbs, 'Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it' (22:6). That training finds its roots in the home. There will be little of help from other sources. Do not depend on government to help in this darkening situation. Barbara Bush, wife of former U.S. president George Bush, spoke wisely: 'Your success as a family, our success as society, depends not on what happens at the White House, but on what happens inside your house.' "
-Gordon B. Hinckley

“I give counsel to husbands and wives. Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion’s joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion.”
-Henry B. Eyring

“Reverent behavior is not a natural tendency for most children. It is a quality that is taught by parents and leaders through example and training. But remember, if reverence is rooted in love, so is the teaching of it. Harshness in our training begets resentment, not reverence.”
-Margaret S. Lifferth

"There is no one perfect way to be a good mother. Each situation is unique. Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children. What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and, in keeping with the devotion she has for God and her husband, prioritizes them above all else."
- M. Russell Ballard

“As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy of emulation? Do we live in such a way that a son or a daughter may say, ‘I want to follow my dad,’ or ‘I want to be like my mother’?”
-Thomas S. Monson

“Security for our families comes from learning self-control, avoiding the excesses of this world, and being temperate in all things.”
-Kent D. Watson

Sunday, June 23, 2013

LLL Spring Workshop

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