My question would be why an adult woman would have to defend herself to her
father who is a pediatrician, for goodness' sake. She can do what she
wishes. It's HER baby.  This is a case where the grandfather obviously has
some personal agenda about breastfeeding that is coloring his advice and
treatment of his daughter. I suspect it also occurs in his advice to patients.

I would refer the mother to Diane Wiessinger's piece on weaning.

Diane Wiessinger's "What If I Want to Wean My Baby?":
http://www.wiessinger.baka.com/bfing/breastvbottle/wean.html

This mother needs to be empowered to make her own choices for her baby,
apart from her father's controlling and negative advice about breastfeeding
her baby to toddlerhood.

The phrase that comes to mind is:

Butt Out.

Kathleen




At 10:46 PM 11/26/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>One of our Pediatrician's daughters just had her third baby.  5 wk old boy.
>Nursed her 1st two 10 mo and 12 mo respectfully.  He has always told her
>there is NO benefit to nursing past a year.  Even though she has heard from
>myself and SEVERAL other LC's this is not true.  Well, this time she wants to
>nurse longer and already knows she will have to defend herself.

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