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Edwina Froehlich, one of the seven founders of La Leche League International has died at the age of 93.

Edwina Froehlich was living in Franklin Park in 1956 when she and six friends began talking about ways to promote natural childbirth and breast feeding.

Her own inspiration was watching the childbirth experiences of her older sister, Pauline, who’s still living at 96, Paul Froehlich said.

Mrs. Froehlich was shaken at mothers anesthetized for childbirth, fathers excluded from the delivery room and the lack of respect doctors showed for the nurses assisting them.

She was determined to make changes, first for herself and then for others.

“She became an advocate of natural childbirth and breast feeding,” Paul Froehlich said. “There’s very few people in my age group who can say their father was in the delivery room when they were born.”