Marian Tompson

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Marian Leonard Tompson is one of seven founders of La Leche League International. ^[1] He was President of La Leche League for 24 years, from 1956 to 1980, and a member of the Founding Advisory Board. Wife of the late Clement Tompson, she is the mother of seven children, a grandmother and great-grandmother. An early home birth supporter, his four children, and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren are born at home.

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Careers

Tompson has been instrumental in developing a Seminar on Breastfeeding for Doctors organized regularly by the La Leche League and held annually since 1973. He has served on many councils, committees and advisory boards, including the International Advisory Council for the World Alliance for Breast-Feeding (1996 to present ) [2] ; Advisory Council for the National Post Partum Care Services Association (1995), Advisory Committee for Perinatal Health, Department of Public Health for the State of Illinois (1983); and served as consultant for the WHO/UNICEF meeting on Giving Infants and Young Children in Geneva, Switzerland in 1980.

Tompson is an interesting speaker, often representing La Leche League at local, national and international conferences, traveling to more than 20 countries in doing so.

When questions and concerns about breastfeeding and HIV/AIDS emerged in the late 1990s, Tompson began asking questions about available research. ^[3] This results in AnotherLook at Breastfeeding and HIV/AIDS, a non-profit organization founded in 2001 dedicated to gathering information, raising critical questions , and stimulate research on breastfeeding in the context of HIV/AIDS. He is the President and CEO.

Mrs. Tompson was named Living Treasure by Mothering (magazine) in March 1998. ^[4]

In 2010, Marian Tompson was asked by Dr. Thomas W. Hale of Hale Publishing to write his memoirs, with the help of Melissa Clark Vickers. Passionate Journey, My Unexpected Life was published in June 2011.

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Interview

In the September/October 1982 issue of Mother Earth News, Ny. Tompson was extensively interviewed about La Leche League and benefited from homebirth. Includes homebirth photos of one of his grandchildren. PLOWBOY INSIGHTS by Pat Stone

In March 2007, Ny. Tompson was interviewed by the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. "I want to breastfeed my baby, but with my first three babies, and I have three different doctors, I've never been able to breastfeed for six months," said Tompson. "

In an interview on December 27, 2007, by Pioneer Press for Wilmette Life he explained how he was elected first president of La Leche League: "They made me president because that is my idea," said Tompson. "I'm very shy and retired."

He also described the free birth of his first drug at a local hospital:

"I'm the only one in the hospital they see who gave birth naturally," he said. When Tompson gave birth to his third child, a group of 17 hospital staff - external, intern, even receptionist - came to watch. "They circled my delivery desk," said Tompson. "When finished, one of the residents walked over to my doctor and said, 'Doctor, how did you do it?'"

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Publications

• "Passionate Journey, My Unexpected Life", Marian Leonard Tompson with Melissa Clark Vickers, Hale Publishing L.P., 2011,
• Nursing Women's Art of Breastfeeding , La Leche League International, Joint Writer, 6th Edition, 1958, 1963, 1981, 1987, 1991
• "Leisure breastfeeding" American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 24, Issue 8, 991-992, 1 August 1971 Articles

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References

1. Time Friday, July 19, 1968
2. WABA INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL (IAC) 2006
3. Is Breast Still The Best? Mothering Magazine
4. Mothering Magazine March 1998
5. New York Times, Live Remembered 2008 Edwina Froehlich

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External links

• La Leche League International
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• Mothering Magazine
• The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action
• Marian Tompson at Hale Publishing

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