As a fellow Pediatrician, I can't help but add my bit to the wonderful post
from Dr. Stepan.  Since the AAP is officially on record as supportive of BF,
and the benefits of BF are well known, residency directors need to do
everything possible to encourage extended BF by their peds residents.  I'll
bet that if one of the male residents suddenly had some medical problem or
sustained a severe fracture during a vacation ski trip, he'd get plenty of
sympathy and no flack at all about needed time off, accomodations for
extended cast-wearing, etc.

We do have numbers on our sides--over 40% of all medical students are women
and women are becoming the majority in many pediatric residency programs.

Keep pushing for humanization & BF friendliness of peds residency programs!

I'm the mom of 4 kids, all BF for a full year, born after the end of
residency.  With the group I worked for at the time, I insisted on getting
the kind of schedule I needed with 4 small kids and scheduled pumping breaks
into the patient schedule.  And this was between 1979-1983--the oldest of
those 4 kids just started college.

We also should comment on fomula ads to the AAP.  The editors likely don't
even stop to consider the content of the ads vis a vis BF promotion.  The AAP
has a web page at    http://www.aap.org

Linda L. Shaw MD, FAAP   Altoona, PA