Is it Time we thought differently about Breastfeeding?

Contrary to popular belief but women don’t continue to breastfeed in order to avoid having sex. In fact you may be surprised to know that people are breastfeeding whilst pregnant!?! I know how does that happen when breastfeeding helps provide a natural contraception and women are apparently avoiding sex!!

So then I heard about this sexy looking blonde woman breastfeeding it came as quiet a shock, I mean only dowdy old saggy women breastfeed right? especially when it turned out she was breastfeeding a child who could walk, talk and express an interest in McDonalds say but no mummy my friends think this is weird.

No really the point is that Time Magazine have this woman feeding her child standing on a chair – my 3 yr old breastfeeder is more likely to use a chair to get sweets out the cupboard. It really just makes more of an issue out of breastfeeding and people’s choices than ever.

The title is obviously an attempt to increase the negativity as why else pick “Are you Mom enough” as if you don’t breastfeed toddlers on chairs you are not. The woman doesn’t look happy about the situation either.

How does this picture make you feel? Do you think it has achieved what it set out to do? Has it made “extended breastfeeding” more, or even less, of an issue?
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5 thoughts on “Is it Time we thought differently about Breastfeeding?”

  1. It struck me as an image designed to provoke negativity rather than to open peoples minds sadly :/

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  2. It’s being deliberately provocative and not in a good way. I breastfed until my son was 14 months old and it always felt like a private affair even when out in public. Why it needs to be portrayed as some kind of ‘in your face’ affair, I don’t know. Not good.

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  3. Funny but the European cover is different. There’s a picture of the new French President François Hollande and the extra title is “Extreme parenting”. I breastfed my son until he was 26 months old. At 12 months old, I stopped doing it outside home, that was the “deal”. This picture is provocative as the advocates of the extreme parenting. I’m talking of what I know but in France, they are very judgemental about those who don’t breastfeed, those who choose to let babies int their own room etc…

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    • I never knew that. Thanks for commenting. I tended only feed them at home after a certain age – it was also to teach them about social boundaries as much as anything else. In France during a trip to Disneyland Paris, was one of the first times I tandem fed them out in public as it was SO hot. Would have been reassuring to know that.

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