Linda wrote: "This [statement prefacing NY BF law]implies that if you go longer there is "something else going on" and plays into the hands of those feeling that bfing older children is deviant." We still have so far to go to get people to bf until 6 months, let alone a year; but I wish there was a way to raise the public consciousness about toddlers nursing. In the past two months (you know how these things come in clumps?) I've had conversations with several young (i.e., fresh out of school) pediatricians who "know" that bf past a year "is for the mom, not the baby." One, who has bf her own baby for over 6 months, said she always wonders "what other parenting problems parents with nursing toddlers have" (!), since "obviously these people can't set appropriate boundaries." I gently tried to educate her, but when I got to the point about children who are 3 and 4 years of age nursing she clearly ascribed me to the fanatic fringe. Sigh. This road runs straight up hill, don't it. Margery Wilson, IBCLC