Pamela,

I agree with you.  To suggest that breastfeeding is only beneficial to the
babies in poor countries or poor children in a rich country is a great
disservice to babies who don't make the cut and makes a more developed
country seem arrogant in their belief that breastfeeding is not all that
important.  Who decides which babies are worthy?

And the poor in the developed country don't need breastmilk because they
have a system that will provide free formula? (Our WIC agency here in the
U.S.)

In 1997 my own ob-gyn told me (upon hearing I was still nursing my 18
month old) that "really, breastfeeding past 4-6 months has no nutritional
value...and we don't live in a developing country so we have plenty of
other foods to be giving our children..."

I wish we could take the dollar/political issue out of it and just state
the across the board "well into the second year and beyond" guideline.

Cheryl

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