Pat Gima wrote: 'And even "experts" in breastfeeding cannot be expert in
every aspect of it, as we know. A wise person knows when to say "I don't
know enough about that topic to speak to it," when asked a question out of
his/her field of expertise.'

Yes. And all "experts"--regardless of the actual or supposed degree of
their expertise--are human beings and therefore fallible. Many fields are
so huge, so evolving, so complex--culture, for example--that is impossible
for any one person to know everything at any point in history. And even if
an expert could, they would not be invulnerable from making a mistake.

Stumbling toward perfection one mistake at a time,

Cynthia Good Mojab, MS Clinical Psychology
(Breastfeeding mother, advocate, independent [cross-cultural] researcher
and author; LLL Leader and Research Associate in the LLLI Publications
Department; and former psychotherapist currently busy nurturing her own
little one.)
Ammawell
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