In Laurie's good letter to GMA, she wrote of Peggy Robin,

<< I wonder why she feels that bf an older child is done due to
 some inability to "let go" in the mother. I cannot imagine where she would
 get such an idea. >>

I think this is based on dated Freudian thinking, which in general stressed
individualtion over bonding.   When folks bring it up to me -- as they often
do, including my own mother, who bf all of her kids when it wasn't
fashionable to do so at all but "of course" weaned us all between 4 and 7
months -- I ask them what they think about Freudian thinking on the
importance of the vaginal over the clitoral orgasm.    That usually gets them
re-thinking at least a little.

Elisheva Urbas
NYC

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