Five Ways to Share Your Breastfeeding Books
September 13, 2008 by Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor
Filed under activism, books, breastfeeding
If you have new or used (but current) breastfeeding, parenting, childbirth, or pregnancy books that you no longer need, why not pass them on for a good cause, and maybe even get a tax deduction in the process? Here are five ways to share your breastfeeding books to benefit other mothers (and the environment).
1. Donate pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and parenting books to your local La Leche League library. LLL groups have free lending libraries, usually allowing mothers to check out books for a month at a time. If you’re not sure whether a book is on the approved LLL list, pass it on anyway and the leaders will either put it in the library, sell it as part of a fundraiser, or pass it on in another appropriate way.
2. Donate them worldwide through LLL’s Lucy Shares project.
3. Donate new books to add to your local public library’s catalog, or used books for the library’s used book sale fundraisers.
4. Pass books on directly to an expecting or new mother.
5. Release books “into the wild” on a park bench, at the pediatrician’s office, or at a coffee shop, and register them through BookCrossing.com to see where they go!
great ideas! I never knew those sharing networks were out there.