Ladies….Would you let your 3 year old nurse
on your Nipple
Time Magazine released the controversial cover above today asking Mom’s everywhere the question, “Are you Mom enough?”
The cover features a young mother
breastfeeding what appears to be a 3-year-old son, standing on a chair in front
of her.While the image is quite provocative, it’s clearly meant to create
dialogue about the touchy subject of breast feeding or more specifically
“attachment parenting,” which has become an even touchier
subject.
Time Magazine photographer Martin Schoeller
photographed four families from across the country who practice this method of
motherhood. Using religious images of the Madonna and Child as reference,
Schoeller captured each mother breast-feeding her child or
children.
Jamie Lynne Grumet, the mom featured on the
cover illustrating staff writer Kate Pickert’s cover story is a mother from Los
Angeles who subscribes to the idea attachment parenting.
Photographer Schoeller explains his
concept:
When you think of breast-feeding, you think of mothers holding their children, which was impossible with some of these older kids.
I liked the idea of having the kids standing up to underline the point that this was an uncommon situation.
The article features 4 moms total who subscribe to the controversial method and Schoeller shot them all in a one day photoshoot for the mag.
One mom, Donna Ford, who lives in Kansas City, Mo., says she once watched a video of a British woman breast-feeding her 7-year-old daughter and thought she would never do the same… That is… until she discovered how difficult it was to wean her own son off breast milk.
When you think of breast-feeding, you think of mothers holding their children, which was impossible with some of these older kids.
I liked the idea of having the kids standing up to underline the point that this was an uncommon situation.
The article features 4 moms total who subscribe to the controversial method and Schoeller shot them all in a one day photoshoot for the mag.
One mom, Donna Ford, who lives in Kansas City, Mo., says she once watched a video of a British woman breast-feeding her 7-year-old daughter and thought she would never do the same… That is… until she discovered how difficult it was to wean her own son off breast milk.
“After six months, I decided I’d wait until
he turned 1,” she says. “But after my baby turned a year old, he was still a
baby — not talking, barely walking — and I wondered why I’d stop now.”
The debate over right vs. wrong parenting will continue until the end of time, but “old school” mothers have always maintained that if the child is “old enough to ask for it, it’s time to stop.”
The debate over right vs. wrong parenting will continue until the end of time, but “old school” mothers have always maintained that if the child is “old enough to ask for it, it’s time to stop.”
How old is too old to breast feed?
Well How about this????...LOL!
Well How about this????...LOL!
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