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Breastfeeding Is Normal presents: A Breastfeeding Advocacy Chat #2
5/18/05

12 mamas in attendance

11:01:10 Host_Housepoet Hello and welcome everyone
11:01:47 Mod_Beckie Good Morning!!
11:02:28 Host_Housepoet ALRIGHT
11:02:34 Host_Housepoet thank you all for coming
11:02:40 Host_Housepoet I know its early for us westcoasters
11:02:42 Host_Housepoet ;)
11:02:56 Host_Housepoet First off this morning I'd like to have a quick recap of the chat last time
11:03:12 Host_Housepoet it was a great sucess and we came up with some wonderful ideas
11:03:21 Host_Housepoet since the last chat, we, ariana and myself
11:03:32 Host_Housepoet have started a Live Journal community called adopt a mom
11:03:45 Host_Housepoet (sorry tantrum over here)
11:03:56 Host_Housepoet Ariana, can you take the floor an let everyone know a bit about AAM please
11:04:04 MOD_Ariana Sure
11:04:16 MOD_Ariana Adopt A Mom is a group of mothers who have “been there done that” when it comes to breastfeeding.  These women are volunteering their time to help out new moms and moms to be on a one on one basis online through education and support.
11:04:28 MOD_Ariana There are currently 31 mentors in the community with a total of 65 (!) years of breastfeeding experience.
11:04:43 MOD_Ariana Right now we have 17 new moms and moms to be in our program.
11:04:57 MOD_Ariana We’re still working out our kinks and trying to get things organized behind the scenes so we can open it wide to even more new moms.
11:05:13 MOD_Ariana We need more mentors, women who are well educated and passionate about breastfeeding.  We need women who can give good advice and support and who know where to go for good information.
11:05:21 Mod_Beckie WOW! That sounds great!
11:05:40 MOD_Ariana If you are interested in being a breastfeeding mentor or know someone who may be drop by this live journal post http://www.livejournal.com/community/adopt_a_mom/712.html  (comments are screened so only other members of the community can see)
11:06:00 MOD_Ariana If you are a pregnant mom who wants a mentor to help you out with breastfeeding go to this post http://www.livejournal.com/community/adopt_a_mom/16919.html  (again comments are screened so only the mentors can see what you write)
11:06:12 MOD_Ariana If you have already had your baby and would like to be matched with a mentor for breastfeeding help go to this post http://www.livejournal.com/community/adopt_a_mom/16823.html  (comments screened so only the mentors can see what you write)
11:06:34 MOD_Ariana I think a few of you here in the chat are mentors in this community right now
11:06:42 flutterby77 Yep :)
11:06:44 Jynxgirl I am one
11:06:45 xxveigaxx indeed
11:06:47 willowsmom singing up now
11:06:50 willowsmom signing
11:07:23 Host_Housepoet AWESOME
11:07:27 Host_Housepoet Thank you Ariana
11:07:29 Mod_Beckie me too! I would love to help!
11:07:42 Host_Housepoet so for the mentors that are in AAM already
11:07:51 Host_Housepoet is there anything that we can do to improve our service?
11:08:01 Host_Housepoet any complaints, gripes suggestions?
11:08:07 Host_Housepoet the floor is open
11:08:43 flutterby77 Nothing springs to my mind right now
11:08:52 Host_Housepoet alright
11:08:55 flutterby77 Other than promotion, promotion promotion lol
11:08:58 willowsmom Ok...I have a question...
11:08:59 willowsmom lol
11:09:00 Host_Housepoet shoot
11:09:09 willowsmom Is this for online support or IRL support?
11:09:12 willowsmom or both
11:09:14 Jynxgirl I think if we get more moms than mentors, it would be a good idea to ask the mentors if they can handle more than one mom. I know that with my current mom, I could handle more than one.
11:09:14 MOD_Ariana online
11:09:16 Host_Housepoet a little of both
11:09:18 willowsmom K :)
11:09:25 Mod_Beckie I have a question?
11:09:30 willowsmom ty
11:09:33 Host_Housepoet if you feel comfortable talking with your mentoree on the phone
11:09:35 Host_Housepoet then by all means
11:10:01 Host_Housepoet of course we are not a substitute for RL support either
11:10:02 MOD_Ariana It's mostly online though because we don't have enough right now to be in every city
11:10:16 willowsmom that makes sense :)
11:10:22 Host_Housepoet our first thing to tell new moms and moms to be is to get RL support from LLL or friends family
11:10:26 Host_Housepoet shoot becky
11:10:32 Mod_Beckie I don't have Live Journal, Can I post to me own Blog?
11:10:46 Mod_Beckie my own blog, LOL! I do speak english...
11:10:49 Host_Housepoet good question
11:10:59 MOD_Ariana The thing is that the LJ community acts as a hub
11:11:02 MOD_Ariana for the mentors
11:11:11 Mod_Beckie Okay, well, I guess I can join
11:11:12 MOD_Ariana Where the mods/administrators
11:11:20 Host_Housepoet right, and basically all the articles that are written are eventually going on the breastfeedingisnormal.org site
11:11:38 MOD_Ariana Eventually I think we'd love to move it off LJ and onto it's own site
11:11:44 MOD_Ariana but that's a little ways down the road
11:11:46 Host_Housepoet (ariana, message me on aim please)
11:11:50 Host_Housepoet well that is our main goal
11:12:01 Host_Housepoet the bfingisnormal site was the catalyst for AAM
11:12:02 Jynxgirl Speaking of which, I am going to work on the diabetes one today. It's on my computer in Newmarket, and all I have here is my laptop.
11:12:15 Mod_Beckie okay, no worries, I can join, just don't expect much of an exciting blog from me, ;)
11:12:22 Host_Housepoet that's fine
11:12:30 Host_Housepoet just post your nursing story in there
11:12:40 Host_Housepoet heck you could even do an RSS feed from your other blog ;)
11:13:20 Host_Housepoet ok
11:13:24 Mod_Beckie cool
11:13:37 Jynxgirl brb... nak
11:13:40 Host_Housepoet so with the AAm thing, even if you're not a mentor, we're always looking for articles  for the site
11:13:46 Host_Housepoet for the community
11:13:53 Host_Housepoet so if you're interested in that
11:14:03 Host_Housepoet A can you put up the AAM email please
11:14:15 Host_Housepoet you can email AAM directly or info@breastfeedingisnormal.org  as well
11:14:22 MOD_Ariana adopt.a.mom.admin@gmail.com
11:14:25 Host_Housepoet great
11:14:59 Host_Housepoet next up is the bfingisnormal flyers
11:15:00 mnfiddledragon thank you, housepoet, for mentioning this on LJ :)
11:15:05 Host_Housepoet :)
11:15:05 Host_Housepoet sure
11:15:16 Host_Housepoet v
11:15:34 Host_Housepoet bascially what we discussed in the last chat was funny and informative flyers for download
11:15:45 Host_Housepoet where a mother can download, print and post anywhere she pleases
11:16:04 Host_Housepoet mostly in restrooms, dressing rooms and the like where mother's are often asked to move when breastfeeding
11:16:27 Host_Housepoet We are working on a series of flyers, ranging from nice and sweet to not so nice
11:16:40 Host_Housepoet so depending on  your personal take on formula
11:16:43 Host_Housepoet ;)
11:16:45 willowsmom lol
11:16:51 Host_Housepoet you can be as nasty as you want to be
11:16:54 flutterby77 :D
11:16:57 willowsmom That's right up my alley :)
11:17:05 Host_Housepoet We're looking into some posting of flyers laws in each state
11:17:08 flutterby77 I want to put a whole wall of flyers over the formula section
11:17:10 Jynxgirl lol... I'm in
11:17:16 Host_Housepoet so if anyone is familiar with that, or would like to reseach that
11:17:20 Host_Housepoet then let us now
11:17:22 Host_Housepoet RIGHT
11:17:25 flutterby77 I can find out for Canada
11:17:26 Host_Housepoet that's what we are ttalking about
11:17:45 Host_Housepoet we're thinking of a fake sergon general's warning to go near formula
11:17:56 flutterby77 lol
11:17:58 willowsmom Ooo I like it!
11:18:10 Host_Housepoet and of course keeping an eye out on your local circulars to see if businesses are advertising formula
11:18:20 Host_Housepoet which of course is against the WHO code
11:18:40 Mod_Beckie hmmm, I am sure I just saw that in the Target ad last sunday...
11:18:43 Host_Housepoet We also need some volenteers to write pitch proposals for the site
11:18:55 Host_Housepoet as in