Well, this is fucking crazy talk.

Nurse your kid, formula feed your kid, do half and half, buy breastmilk, whatever. Make an informed decision and do what you think is best.

But there's actual, medical reasons why the WHO recommendations for breastfeeding exist (and why they apply on a global level, where access to sufficient, safe formula and other nutritious foods may not be guaranteed.) The AAP recommendation (here in the US) is 6 months exclusive, and at least another six months supplementing with foods (or longer as desired.)

You can make whatever informed decisions you want as long as your baby's getting fed properly. But going around acting like medical organizations shouldn't make medical recommendations about baby's food source because you found them too cumbersome to implement is just silly.

While breastfeeding has some health benefits for mother, and may have other benefits mothers value, of course the primary focus when we're talking about health recommendations for feeding infants is going to be the impact those decisions have on infants. There are many resources specific to the mom or designed to help moms, but that isn't going to be encompassed in a WHO policy statement that reflects the reality that throughout the world, breastmilk is associated with better outcomes for infants.

And no, I don't think using flowery language like "mother's milk" would have made this woman feel any more included. I think there are real, detrimental forces at play against women who have children, things out society needs to address. (Not enough maternity leave, unpaid maternity leave being the start of them.) But health recommendations about breastfeeding are not about dehumanizing the mother. They're about the actual, physical, health of the child and the long-term outcomes for the child you chose to have.