Acceptance of, respect for, and sensitivity to family size are important as we encourage mothers to breastfeed. A mother with one child asks about getting more sleep at night. She asks a Leader some questions about breastfeeding and going back to work. The Leader steers her toward another Leader with four children instead of a newly accredited co-Leader who has one child. It doesn't, of course, but perhaps we sometimes inadvertently give mothers and Leaders that impression.
Leaders encourage and support all breastfeeding mothers.
There is no hierarchy of motherhood depending no how many children a woman has. All Leaders are equal. As soon as she is accredited, a Leader is equal to any other Leader, regardless of the number of years she's been involved with LLL or the number of children she has. The visible number of children may not be all that gives a mother experience. Visible family size does not reflect miscarriages, stillbirths, children given up for adoption, sudden infant death and other losses.