I am named for Dr. Gregory White, who helped deliver me, husband of Mary White, one of LLL’s foundresses. My mom was at the 1971 convention and met Princess Grace. She was for years a LLL lactation consultant. To this day I am friends with the children and grandchildren of Greg and Mary White. LLL was not just some offshoot of the hippie…
I am named for Dr. Gregory White, who helped deliver me, husband of Mary White, one of LLL’s foundresses. My mom was at the 1971 convention and met Princess Grace. She was for years a LLL lactation consultant. To this day I am friends with the children and grandchildren of Greg and Mary White. LLL was not just some offshoot of the hippie movement. It stemmed from a profound Catholic anthropology, in which the human body is the locus of salvation. It went to the female body, and the role of the mother in gestating and then nourishing the child, in part as a reaction to the contraceptive mindset of the day: “The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding” says it all. That LLL would erase womanhood, and thus, really, embodiment, from its mission, is to undermine its very foundation. It should change its name, or just close its doors. Makes me weep.
I am named for Dr. Gregory White, who helped deliver me, husband of Mary White, one of LLL’s foundresses. My mom was at the 1971 convention and met Princess Grace. She was for years a LLL lactation consultant. To this day I am friends with the children and grandchildren of Greg and Mary White. LLL was not just some offshoot of the hippie movement. It stemmed from a profound Catholic anthropology, in which the human body is the locus of salvation. It went to the female body, and the role of the mother in gestating and then nourishing the child, in part as a reaction to the contraceptive mindset of the day: “The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding” says it all. That LLL would erase womanhood, and thus, really, embodiment, from its mission, is to undermine its very foundation. It should change its name, or just close its doors. Makes me weep.