Allow me to throw some cold water on this most titillating thread....
Posted on 05/10/2012 2:56:15 PM PDT by Former Fetus
Does this cover go too far? (Photo: Time.com)The headline reads, "Are You Mom enough?" But if that wasn't enough to fan the flames of the Mommy Wars, there's the photo that goes with it: A pretty young woman wearing skinny jeans and a tank top, nursing her nearly 4-year-old son. It's meant to illustrate a story about Dr. William Sears and attachment parenting but, given that there's more to that movement than extended breastfeeding, it seems as if Time magazine was going for sensationalism and shock value.
It's working.
>>Warning: pic at the link<<
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As a nursing mother I’m still trying to wrap my head around the sexual pleasure comments. You really got off while nursing your kid?
The hell?!?!
This is basically kiddy porn!
These people are frigging nutjobs!
As late as the 1960s Inuit (Eskimo) women would nurse their children as long as possible, even into their twenties. They believed that as long as a woman could nurse, she proved she still was a vital, useful person. It was a symbol of femininity.
I never cease to be amazed at the variety of human societies and what the various cultures consider moral and normal.
As for me, I think breastfeeding is a natural, beautiful thing. However, I also think its odd past two or three years old.
Breastfeeding on the cover of a national magazine for the sake of generating prurient interest and increased sales. That's a sickness.
Look at the bright side, this kid’s life will be hell in high school.
“Hey, aren’t you the guy....”
For the record, I nursed both of my children and I too consider it a beautiful, natural, maximally healthy thing that is to be encouraged and accepted. I didn’t deliberately seek privacy or hide myself away, but neither did I flash my equipment around. I just sat down somewhere, slipped my baby up underneath my loose shirt, and let him nosh. No one ever said a thing or gave me a dirty look, no matter what part of the US I was in, even in a few very upscale restaurants in Manhattan.
Women who flash their boobs, sometimes spraying milk around, are exhibitionists. I have no sympathy.
I quit breast feeding when my son had a name for each breast and knew how to undo buttons. He was 23 months.
This is a very exciting thread for some reason.
BUT
Why the headline "Are You Mom enough?"
You a freak, as well as a moron.
>Breastfeeding for nourishment is one thing, but that is obviously not the driving reason for the phenomenon in the United States, so why bring it up?<
Beside the fact that the way a mother feeds her child is a personal choice, it’s been shown that not only is human milk far more digestible for babies, it helps prevent allergies, plus babies are less likely to get sick because they get immunity from nursing. Breast feeding provides closer contact between mother and baby. Breastfed infants are far, far less likely to be victims of child abuse.
Mothers who breast feed are less likely to develop cancer.
But for you, it’s only nutritional. Nobody will ever hold a gun to your head and force you to toss that bottle away, I promise.
Left and right?
Cold and hot?
More and less?
Hot and hotter?
Big and bigger?
I know...it's weird. But what were the names!!!????
It’s not the brestfeeding it’s the context in which it is being
Shown. Look at her pose. Very seductive.
Allow me to throw some cold water on this most titillating thread....
It has to do w/ the whole “attachment parenting” theory of parenting. A friend’s daughter-in-law did it & she would hold the baby always. The baby would sleep w/ them & no one else, except the father was allowed to hold the baby.
They did it w/ their second child too. Another friend said that the last time she was around them the kids were absolute spoiled mosters. But she also said the parents never corrected the children or told them to stop doing something. It would discourage their creativity.
As a teacher I feel SO very sorry for the teacher that will have to deal w/ these pampered children someday.
LOL COLD?
MORE LIKE ICE WATER.
Rush is right
-PJ
The kid in that picture looks about six, and the mother looks like she hasn’t had milk in a long time.
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