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Now, that one doesn't bother me at all... the first one did bother me... especially the "are you mom enough" comments.
But, this isn't weird at all.Comment
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Disgusting? Really?
It's completely, totally normal, the world over. A 3 year old nursing is a GOOD thing. In most of the world, children nurse well past age 3.
Would I nurse on a Time cover? Well, no, I'm far too self-conscious to do that. But good for her. She's helping to bring breastfeeding back into the public discussion. She's helping to normalize nursing in America.Comment
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I don't find the picture (or the new one's coming out) disgusting at all. I find extended nursing to be just as natural and beautiful as nursing an infant. I do think the pose wasn't natural, and shed a bad light on extended nursing however.
I DO find the title "are you mom enough" to be disgusting and completely unfair to all mothers, whether they breastfed or formula fed. Time knew darn well what it was doing when it labeled the US version with that tittle. The Euperean version didn't have that title.
I nursed my DD until she was 17 months, and would have gladly continued until she was 24 months. Possibly later, but 24 months was my "soft" cut off.Comment
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You are certainly welcome to your own limits, but as a world, it is not at all strange for a 3,4 or 5 yo to be nursing. This is an example of egocentric thinking.
To call it disgusting, is narrow minded to say the least.Comment
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Oh my
I wish I had time to care about who is nursing whom at what age.
Does it really affect anyone else. Both my children weaned far too early. By one year I was missing that closeness, but going out for a ladies night and having a ****tail knowing my kids didn't miss the boobie.
Longer breastfeeding isn't for me, but it doesn't affect anyone else if she nurses them till they're tired of it. Judgey McJudgerson aside, who really is affected by this? It's all just different perspectives, of people who care for kids. Everyone is doing what they think is best... and carry on.Comment
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I don't find the fact that she is nursing her son unusual at all. It is unusual to most people in the west, but perfectly normal in the rest of world.
I nursed my daughter well beyond 24 months.
What disturbed me is the controversial way it was portrayed across the cover. TIME new exactly how to attract attention to the mag. If she had been cradling her son like a normal breastfeeding child, without the phrase "are you mom enough" it would not have flown off the shelf like it did.
I feel sorry this mom has had to defend herself like she has.Comment
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Eh, I don't find extended nursing to be gross. I did take offense to the first cover, like many others. I don't think EBF = being mom enough (or breast feeding at all, really) and I wish the media would get over it.Comment
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What she wants to do in the privacy of her home is her business but she's opened it up for the world to see and comment.
My concern is for the son, who's name is broadcasted all over these articles and photos are out there for all to see. I see him being teased in school over this. I can see it now - "here comes booby boy." You KNOW it's going to happen.
If she wants to nurse her sons until they're 10 that's fine but I think she needs to think more about what she is doing to her kids with all this publicity.
I had to chuckle about the advertisement prior to the video. :
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I didn't really care for the Time cover. Just the way the mom and kid were posed and the title all seemed designed to shock. The second cover is much more tasteful.
After watching the story the mom seems like a very caring, genuine person. I really don't care who breastfeeds who but I just don't care to have things shoved down my throat (as with the Time cover.)Comment
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Completely agree.
I personally could care less what others do, UNTIL they shove it in my face.
The Times, as well as this woman, had an obvious agenda. I understand that's the medias sole purpose, to shock, but they had no right to drag a minor into their propaganda. A minor who has no clue or say into how this is going to affect his future I might add.
Want to add that what is done elsewhere in the world really isn't a valid argument, nor is it ever. In other places in the world children are bought and sold, they starve to death, they die of preventable diseases, female genital mutation is practiced and parents can leave newborns outside of restaurants during winter in prams unattended. So using what is common or even occasional practice/occurrence world wide to support an argument such as this really doesn't hold an ounce of water. In THIS country, it isn't even close to common practice and it's going to take a whole lot more than "well it happens far far away" to make it come off as wholesome, beneficial and normal.
To be clear, I'm not saying that simply because it isn't common in our society makes it wrong, but that's definitely where the opposition comes from. It IS unusual, whether EBF moms and those who support them want to admit it or not. That's exactly why the topic made the Times cover. Sociology dictates what is considered normal. If it was a meatloaf and potatoes topic they never would have considered having it in the magazine much less throwing it a COVER. It's bizarre practice HERE, within OUR widespread social group as a nation. It was especially big news here and by no surprise. When it hit the news people were hollaring not only "gross" but "ABUSE." I am the only woman I know, even thinking back through my childhood, who nursed her children save for two daycare moms I've had just recently. Breastfeeding in and of itself is uncommon enough but EBF is literally unheard of and yes, considered repulsive and completely unnecessary. I personally was well aware of it but didn't see the use in EBF so I didn't do it with my kids, but holy buckets my eyes about pop when women on the internet try to claim it's normal and practiced everywhere in most families....as if central MN is Mars
I don't buy either that the woman was merely "naive" as she claims now. No woman with half a brain in her head would exploit her child and expose herself the way she did for a nationwide publication without having a good idea of how it's going to be presented. I call bull at her claim the original photograph wasn't posed for when it obviously was. No one stands like that, with a child at her breast, hand on hip and both staring at a camera. That "tee-hee I had no idea!" is damage control for the movement at best and a flat out lie at worst. I think she went in fierce, ticked off a bunch of non-BF mothers and families, the article ostracized BF as a practice by coming across too judgmental and now she is trying to call herself a victim?? Right......you did it, you felt it was the right thing to do, now own it.
And apologize for dragging your son through the mud along side of you while you're at it......Comment
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THIS I agree with. Her attitude was obnoxious. She didn't make the "Are you Mom enough?" title, but she does have the "I'm a better mom than most, and look how hot I am" smirk on her face.
I was only bothered by the whole theme. The "Some moms are willing to make sacrifices to do what is best for her children, others are more selfish...but, that's O.K if it doesn't work for you... not all moms can be so devoted".Comment
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