My ex-boss was from Spain, and when I was pregnant she gave
me this devotion that she had learned about while she was growing up, and then
visited in Ft. Lauderdale. I promised that I would take my daughter on a
pilgrimage to the Ft. Lauderdale shrine before she turns 18. It gave me a lot
of peace during pregnancy and I felt really helped with Carole nursing - about
the only problem I didn't have when she was born.
It's the Devotional prayers to Our Lady of La Leche. You can
read more about her here if you wish: http://missionandshrine.org/?page_id=80
but here are the prayers:
Lovely Lady of La Leche, most loving mother of the Child
Jesus, and my Mother, listen to my humble prayer. Your motherly heart knows my
every wish, my every need. To you only, HIs spotless Virgin Mother, has your
Divine Son given to understand the sentiments which fill my soul. Yours was the
sacred privilege of being the mother, that, in accordance with His will, I may
become the mother of other children of our heavenly Father. This I ask, O lady
of La Leche, of the Name of your Divine Son, My Lord and Redeemer. Amen.
O Lord Jesus Christ, through the intercession of your tender
Mother, Our Lady of La Leche, who bore You close to her heart during those long
months before Your birth, I place my baby and myself entirely in Your Hands.
Free me, I beseech you, from useless and consuming worry. Accept the sacrifice
of my aches and pains, which I unite to your sufferings on the cross. Above
all, most merciful and loving Jesus, Protect this child you have given to me
from all harm, bestowing the health and vigor every baby needs. Implant in my
heart and on my lips the words and prayers of your mother and mine, our lovely
Lady of La Leche. All this I ask that my child and I may live to praise forever
Your Holy Name. Amen.
To you lovely Lady of La Leche, and to your Divine Son, do I
now dedicate this little baby whom our Father in Heave has given me. Grateful
for the trust He has placed in me, I beg you to obtain for me the physical and
spiritual graces I need to fulfill my duties at every moment. Inspire me with
the motherly sentiments you felt during your days with the Child Jesus. Make it
possible for me, in imitation of you, O lady of La Leche, to nurse my child to
perfect health. In all things help me to follow the example which you, as the
perfect model of all mothers, have given to me. Let my family mirror the
virtues of your HOly Family of Nazareth. Finally, I commend to you loving care
all the mothers of earth, in whose hands He has entrusted the soul of His
little children. Amen.
May the blessing of God the Father, the Son and the Holy
Spirit, through the intercession of Our Lady of La Leche, descend up on us now
and remain forever. Amen.
So, I think it goes 1. prayer for conception, 2, prayer for
pregnancy, and 3. prayer for nursing. and then the closing. I just prayed all
three during my last few months of pregnancy (after I was given this!)
RMVZ
