I must express my frustration at the myriad reasons for telling a mother to
wean.  I think we all need to start adding another (catch) phrase to our
vocabularies when confronted by idiocy (pardon my harsh words, but I have
about had it!)

If a mother is told to wean her breastfeeding baby for (fill in the blank)
reason, our FIRST question must then be "Based on what documentation,
doctor?"  Until we consistently INSIST upon same, mothers will continue to
be told to wean for no reason other than that the clinician could not be
more creative in his/her/their suggestions.  [or so it seems to me]

I am struck by several recent posts indicating that individuals have sought
to look up such reasons in books well known for containing accurate
information--books such as Riordan and Auerbach, Lawrence, the
Breastfeeding Answer Book.  When nothing is found there, the question is
posed here.

It is quite possible that everything would not be included in those
volumes, but if NO MENTION is made at all, this may be a clue that there is
no rationale for said reason? (One would think SOMEONE would have heard of
it, read of it somewhere!)

Off my soapbox for the day....

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