Banquet Speaker
Report from 2001 LLLI Conference
From: NEW BEGINNINGS, Vol. 18 No. 5, September-October 2001, p. 181
Deborah Rowe, radio talk
show personality, spoke at the Banquet and shared many inspiring reflections
on mothering. She brought her nine-year-old-daughter, Maya, with her.
She complimented La Leche League for the kind of mothering we do and
the kind of information we share with other mothers. Some of her comments
were:
This is a wonderful time
to be a mother, a nurturer and a caregiver for the most precious gifts
we will ever receive—our children.
To be a mother today is an
enormous job, yet it is enormously rewarding. We are charged with the
responsibility of being all things to our babies. We are required to
have more than a superficial knowledge of so many things. We are required
to have expertise in a vast array of disciplines.
You just try to raise a family
today without a solid knowledge of culinary art, finance, domestic engineering,
conflict resolution, mediation, social planning, psychology, and spiritual
leadership.
After calling for a round
of applause for all the babies in the audience, Deborah reminisced about
her own experiences breastfeeding her four children. She closed her
talk with these thoughts:
There is nothing sweeter
than the total bliss that babies experience as they nurse. That is my
favorite memory. lt's like the best of all worlds converged. Babies
have their nutritious meal that is neither too hot nor too cold, are
snuggled next to their favorite person, and they let us know in their
own special way how much they love us.
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