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Article: La Leche founder changed attitudes about breastfeeding
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- Elk Grove Times (IL)
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- May 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 breastfeeding who died Sunday (June 8).
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 breastfeeding rates were reportedly near 20 percent.
For obituary information, see page 74
"In those days you didn't mention 'breast' in print. 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," Froehlich once ...