His specialty may not matter. Breastfeeding education in medical schools and residency programs is not necessarily very good. Some do an excellent job, but many offer little in the way of training about breastfeeding. Doctors have been responsible for a lot of breastfeeding failures by giving mothers bad information. That's what I thought. The docs I've discussed this with previously have said that their training is basically limited to a chapter in a textbook during med school that explains the mechanics of lactation and nothing more.
My husband is a doctor. I taught him more about breastfeeding when I nursed our four than all of his medical training ever did.
Good for you! In a way, I understand how male physicians have very little interest in the subject, since it is exclusively a female experience. However, from a health perspective, it borders on incompetence that they are not more informed!
I agree with all of this. A good friend of mine is a surgery resident. When he came to visit me after my daughter was born, he asked when I was going to wean (she was 5 mos. at the time!). I gave him some of my bf books so he could learn what they obviously didn't teach him in med. school.