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Article: La Leche founder changed breast-feeding attitudes
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- Palatine Countryside (IL)
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- June 12, 2008
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Friends and family have spent the week reflecting on the life of Edwina Froehlich, a local pioneer for natural childbirth and breast-feeding who died Sunday.
Froehlich co-founded La Leche League with a group of neighborhood women in Franklin Park during the late 1950s, teaching other mothers how to nurse their infants at a time when doctors promoted formula and breast-feeding rates were reportedly near 20 percent.
Her Franklin Park home served as the group's original offices, and she remained closely involved over the years as La Leche grew into an international organization with 3,000 groups in more than 60 countries. Froehlich also co-authored The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, which now has ...