Great news! Were you aware that it’s National Breastfeeding Week in Argentina? Of course you were. The Argentine government has created the special week in support of mothers and breasts and mothers with breasts and to publicize a campaign to breastfeed children for at least six consecutive months or until they two years of age. Or until they turn into small, teething monsters that’ll tear you apart, limb from boob:

This week, according to Luis Alfredo Azula, chairman of the Committee on Breastfeeding, healthcare officials called for mothers to reach the gold standard in infant feeding, which is to breastfeed exclusively for six months and incorporate appropriate complementary foods, continuing with breastfeeding up to two years or more.

The Boob Brigade (or “Comisión de Lactancia Materna”) seeks to “protect breastfeeding,” which, we infer, means allowing women to confidently pop out a titty at whatever the Argentine equivalent of a Kmart is.

The commission focuses on providing women with proper guidelines and nutritional resources to ensure they aren’t pumping their babies full of poison.Like a booby trap. But what gets us the most here is the idea that there’s a “gold standard” of breastfeeding and that womn in developed countries who elect not to breastfeed, those in poorer countries who cannot manage to incorporate enough nutritious food into their own diet to breastfeed or those who cannot do so because of health issues are somehow substandard mothers.

Instead of a gold standard of breastfeeding, why can’t doctors provide fact about the process, some helpful nutritional guidelines and then allow mothers to choose if and for how long they see it fit to have a tiny face suckling on them?

El Gobierno provincial apoya a las madres [Corrientes Noticias]