La Leche League NZ Conference 2024 - Celebrating 60 years of Breastfeeding Support in Aotearoa
Event description
Kia ora koutou katoa. You are invited to join our La Leche League New Zealand 2024 Conference which will be held in Cambridge at St Peter’s School, 19 -21st April 2024.
We have chosen this date to align with the 60th anniversary of La Leche League New Zealand’s first meeting - 25th April 1964. The conference will be held at St Peter’s School in Cambridge, Waikato, on the 19 -21 April 2024, with a Health Professionals seminar day on the 19th (8am start).
Our 60th Anniversary conference is an opportunity for our members, past and present, to come together and celebrate our achievements. This is the first opportunity for all of our members to join members to come together since 2018 as our conference has been on hold due to the COVID 19 pandemic.
Details below:
- Keynote speaker: Pinky McKay
- Price: Full Registration (member $385, non member $460 - includes Saturday lunch and dinner
- Accommodation: $128 - 2 nights, includes breakfasts
There is plenty of single bed accommodation with space for porta cots in the rooms. However, if you are planning to attend with partners or multiple children you may wish to stay offsite.
Programme:
Health Professionals day programme:
https://lalecheleague.org.nz/w...
Main conference programme:
https://lalecheleague.org.nz/w...
Alumnae Day programme: :
https://lalecheleague.org.nz/w...
Pinky McKay IBCLC
Pinky joined the Cambridge group
of LLLNZ in the mid 1970s and became a leader in the Hamilton group in 1976.
She spent the next 20 years breastfeeding (5 kids). Pinky and her family now live in Melbourne, Australia, but she still calls New Zealand home.
Pinky McKay is one of Australia’s most recognised and respected breastfeeding experts. She’s an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), and best-selling author.
Pinky specializes in gentle parenting styles that honour mothers’ natural instincts to respond to their babies. "LLL was my 'home' when I was a young mum floundering and confused against pressure to wean my first baby, went along to meetings in Cambridge when he was a year old to find out how to wean him - was SOO relieved to discover I didn't have to DO anything that didn't feel right."
- Pinky McKay