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She was strong. She was determined. And along with the six other founders of La Leche League International, she was a revolutionary. LLL has announced that Edwena Froehlich, one of the co-founders of La Leche League International, passed away on Sunday. From the LLL website:
Edwina Froehlich of Inverness, Illinois, co-founder of La Leche League International and co-author of The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, which has over 2 million copies in print, died at 5 am on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at Northwest Community hospital in Arlington Heights after suffering a stroke on May 25.In 1956, Edwina Froehlich and six other women met in Franklin Park, Illinois to share information on how to successfully breastfeed their babies. The group quickly attracted the attention of other women and became an organization called La Leche League. “In those days you didn’t mention ‘breast’ in print,” Froehlich once said. “We knew that if we were ever going to get anything in the paper we would have to find a name that wouldn’t actually tell people what our organization was about.” The breastfeeding support group took the Spanish name for milk as its name. From these roots grew La Leche League International, a breastfeeding support not-for-profit organization, which has groups in every
U.S. state and in 68 different countries. The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding has been translated into eight languages and Braille.
The world has lost a wonderful woman.
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