Oh, the Milk Train Used to Rumble My Shack

A troubling pattern in obstetrics is the absolute insistence on exclusive breastfeeding for every woman and her child.  And I don't have to say too much about it, because Courtney Jung did so very nicely in her NYT piece entitled Overselling Breast-Feeding.  

From my own perspective as a women's health provider, I would put far more emphasis on the cultural and social norms that we often overlook when insisting on breast exclusivity, and specifically what it means to be young and/or poor and/or the victim of some sort of sexual violence and how this insistence negatively affects those women long-term, specifically in relationship to their children.

Let's support women to be mothers rather than enforce moral positions about what we expect of womanhood and motherhood.