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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So just to clarify, is the AAP "supporting" breastfeeding for 2 years so mothers don't have to hear their pediatricians tell them it will be hard to wean after a certain age (good advice IMO), or because they actually prefer that women breatsfeed for 2 years versus 1 year?[/quote]

obviously neither. the guidance is not guidance. it’s just another opportunity to “support” breastfeeding as a moral imperitive. [/quote]

Have you not yet realized how ineffective your trolling is on this thread?[/quote]

I'm the first PP above. What's your take? What is the specific end goal of this guidance, in your mind?[/quote]

I think firstly it’s to highlight that the full conception through lactation cycle is not always exactly one year and nine months, and that the nursing dyad may continue quite normally well past that. It think it intends to highlight benefits to the mother instead of endlessly focusing on what she can do for the child. And I think— because it says so— that it intends to advocate for additional workplace and government policies that allow women the best chance at successful breastfeeding. [/quote]

Why is the “nursing dyad” (barf) elevated above all other aspects and labor of parenting, and other material aspects of family wellbeing? I believe it’s because breastfeeding occupies a place in some people’s mind as a symbol of utopia and idealized life. That’s why they over-focus on it to the exception of other more important things. It’s about attaining a perfect image of motherhood, and at its heart, as noxious as other myths of motherhood that distort public policy.

A woman is not half of a “nursing dyad.” She’s a person with autonomy. [/quote]

If you find this subject so vomit inducing, maybe go back to Reddit.[/quote]

DP, the PP is referring to a term used above, not the subject as a whole. Don't you dare try to censor those of us that think differently from you. If you can't handle other Pepe's opinions, you should be the one to leave.[/quote]

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