1. Home
  2. Health
  3. Breastfeeding
photo of Melissa Kotlen Nagin
Breastfeeding Blog

By Melissa Kotlen Nagin, About.com Guide to Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding Advocate, Betty Wagner Spandikow, Dead at 85

Thursday November 20, 2008

The breastfeeding world mourns the passing of Betty Wagner Spandikow, co-founder and former CEO of La Leche League International, the largest breastfeeding advocacy organization in the world. A mother of seven, at a time when breastfeeding was out-of-style, Spandikow believed "that breastfeeding was nature as it was intended," says her daughter. "Why, she would ask, should we create chemicals [formula] to take the place of that?" She also wrote "The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding," a book that has sold more than 2 million copies and has been translated into eight languages and Braille, which has been considered the Bible of Breastfeeding to many. We will miss her greatly.

Comments

No comments yet. Leave a Comment

Leave a Comment

Line and paragraph breaks are automatic. Some HTML allowed: <a href="" title="">, <b>, <i>, <strike>

Explore Breastfeeding
About.com Special Features

Learn how you can reduce your your numbers with these nutrition and exercise tips. More >

Keep yourself, and your family, happy and healthy this fall with these tips. More >

  1. Home
  2. Health
  3. Breastfeeding

©2009 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company.

All rights reserved.