I just wanted to add, it does happen. I saw a new primary MD (female) a few months ago when Jake was 10.5 months old. At the end of the visit she asked if there was anything else she could do for me. I mentioned that I was having supply issues, really wanted to exclusively BF for a full year, not feed formula and I wanted something to increase my supply. She told me there was no nutritional need to continue to BF, that all of the benifits are achieved within the first 3 months. She kinda laughed & said new moms are funny like that...mind you I have a 16 year old~! So I played dumb and asked what type of fluids should I be giving him and she said whole milk was fine. I told her that my pedi across the hall from her advised no whole milk for a year and she then remembered the infant gut was not designed for cow milk until a year or so.
I wasn't so much offended that she though I was dumb because I knew how ignorant she was! I just feel sorry for those women that don't educate theirselves and get advice from someone like that!
