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Davina Keen
June 17, 2021
Our family will not forget Tine. Our grandchildren are now being raised embraced in the Family Bed. Family is everything and Tine supported us and so many other families. Thank you Tine. Davina and Bruce www.batesandkeenfamilyfarm.co.nz
Lisa Mael
February 17, 2011
I was so sorry to read about the passing of Tine, I was just doing a report for school and needed some additional information when I googled her name. I have been a LaLeche League Leader for 21 years and used "The Family Bed" as a tool to help mothers educate themselves on the many benfits and cultural aspects of the family bed. Tine's book gave mothers permission to follow their instincts. God Bless
N. Deonne Brady
December 30, 2010
To Tine's family, your mother affirmed so many of us following our hearts as we practiced shared sleep in the family bed going against relatives/friends/society's views. For a decade, I was active in La Leche League and then served as a Leader in St. Paul. I can not fathom how many lives she touched. I was fortunate to hear her speak at a local conference in Mpls., and will never forget her sincerity, simplicity, and wisdom. Our western world's children are fortunate for her courage and convictions. May she rest in peace and may all who love her be comforted.
Joy Jones
December 21, 2010
Dear Tine Thevenin, I am so very sorry to see you go. You have enriched my life in precious, priceless ways, and your legacy will enrich the lives of all of my descendants, as it has begun to do even now, with the birth of my first grandchild. Thank you, thank you, thank you. May your family be blessed and comforted as you go. I look forward to meeting you some day. With love, Joy
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John Taylor
September 23, 2010
I don't know what prompted me to Google Tine's name, but I figured something would come up since she is a published author. Little did I expect to read that she had passed. I am saddened. It has been at almost 10 years since we've communicated. I knew Tine as a close personal friend. Tine listened in a way that I had never experienced before. Her children were about 5 and 7 when I first met Tine, and it was a joy to see her relationship with them. She influenced me in the areas of diet and health and communication through the heart. I am sad that I will not hear hear voice again, and grateful that I knew her. I would enjoy hearing from Yvonne and Michelle.
Debra Christensen
September 18, 2010
...I was just now recommending Tine's book (again), and did a quick search to refresh my memory on how to spell 'Thevenin', and found out she had passed. Wow. So sad. Her book changed my mothering philosophy forever. I've recommended it to a dozen other mothers. All I can say is...You made a difference..you truly did. Thank you.
Peg & Gerald Saindon
September 16, 2010
We had the privilege of hosting Tine when she was in Appleton WI for a La Leche League convention in 1978 or '79. We learned so much from her and I believe we became better parents for taking her simple advice on meeting the needs of children. May she rest in peace and may God comfort her grieving family.
lieven david
August 27, 2010
Thank you, Tine, for your bed-sharing ideas! I bought your book when I was 19, so that was before I met my wife. We adopted two lovely daughters & shared the family bed with them for about 7 years, that is: until they wanted their own rooms. Thanks to this - so: thanks to you - our girls are happy, responsible young women now.
Lieven (Belgium)
Davina Keen
August 14, 2010
Tine was an inspiration for many of us here in Aotearoa New Zealand. My children are now adults and have warm memories of our Family Bed. I have just recommended Tine's book to a Samoan man who is interested in the topic as part of his PhD research. I was so sad to hear that Tine has passed away. How wonderful for her family to know that she gave so much to folk from all over the world. Kia Kaha, Davina Keen
Pat Hafner
July 4, 2010
Tine was a dear friend of mine even though we knew each other for a very short time. During her illness she gave of herself to me with her expertise in Emotion Freedom Technique. I believe the time she gave to me was instrumental in the healing of my own bout with cancer. I will always remember her in my mind and my heart as the kind women from the north that gave of herself to me during an emotionally and physically painful time for her. One never knows how or when they may have the opportunity to enrich the lives of others. Simply keeping your eyes open allows it to happen.
Thank you Tine and Dag.
Wendy Posselt
July 1, 2010
Tine was my La Leche League Leader when I had my first child (now 35 years old). She loaned me a copy of her manuscript for The Family Bed as I was an exhausted mother, and ever after had good sleep with our child and then children by our side. She nurtured me to become a leader myself and extended her support to other areas of my life that--so typical of Tine--were life changing. I am astonished that she died so young. What a wonderful role model.
Keitha Whitaker
June 25, 2010
What an extraordinary woman! The Family Bed and Tine's wisdom changed our family 30 years ago. She was, and still is, a blessing to us all. I hold you in my heart and my thoughts and prayers are with you. Tine inspired so many of us. She will be missed even as her wisdom and love live on.
Margaret Mannke
June 24, 2010
I am so very sorry to hear of Tine's death. I had the priveledge to meet your mother at LLL events, as well as read her books. Her book on the family bed came at a time when I most needed it. As others have said, it took away the guilt and educated me about the traditon of the family bed in other cultures around the world. Her book made all the difference to me as I parented our three children, but also, made all the difference for all the families who knew of her book and read it after I had encouraged them to do so. We had Tine's books in our LLL Group Library for many, many years and it was certainly one most popular book in the library.
May God comfort you in your time of sorrow and know that you are not alone in your grief.
With My Deepest Sympathy,
Mary Butler
June 24, 2010
What a painful loss and void in the lives of Tine's family and close friends. All the rest of us, her readers, are feeling the sadness too, but our children will live on having benefited so dearly from her wisdom and courage to publish The Family Bed.
Patty Spanjer
June 24, 2010
Thirty four years ago, I attended my first La Leche League meeting. I had already nursed a child for a year, so I felt confident breastfeeding. But sleeping with our baby? We did it, but felt guilty. Then I read Tine's book, "The Family Bed". Wow!! What we were doing was so right. It made me feel so comfortable that I think I quoted it at every meeting for many years, and to all of my friends and family all the time! It made me feel so comfortable with LLL, that I am still a Leader.
Thank you Tine!! You made a huge difference in my life.
June 24, 2010
Tine influenced me as a mother and a LLL Leader in more ways that I can begin to count. The two books constantly by my bedside in the early days of motherhood were The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding and The Family Bed. My sincerest condolences to the family. May you take comfort in the legacy and wisdom Tine has left for us all.
Sincerely,
Susan Jones Engelhardt
LLL Palatine/Rolling Meadows (Retired)
Anne Marie Miller
June 24, 2010
Please accept my condolences on the loss of Tine Thevenin. At a time when co-sleeping/co-bedding was not even discussed, she had the courage to write about The Family Bed. That book changed parenting patterns for an amazing number of people and brought the discussion out into the open where it could be acted upon.
I wish I had told her "thank you" while she was alive to hear it, but I can definitely offer it to the family now. Thank you for sharing a wonderful person with the rest of the world.
Delores Keith
June 23, 2010
Tine changed the concept of shared sleep to a normal part of infancy. She helped us all know what good parents we were. Her book opened the door to the discussion.One that was kept behind doors and moms were afraid to admit that they let their children into their beds. Tine opened our eyes.
Michelle Chlan
June 23, 2010
I'm a newly accredited LLL leader. I haven't read her book, but I will now. I'm so sad to hear of her death, your family is in my thoughts. To think of all the moms and babies and families she helped over the years is simply amazing, it brings me to tears. Take care.
June 23, 2010
Thirty years ago I read The Family Bed for the first time. I have since read it many times, because the message she had in her writing gave me permission to be the mother I was to be, and the grandmother I am now. Tine will be missed and thankfully her heart and message for future mothers will live long with her writings. Thank you, Brenda Glover (Illinois)
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