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Really!?!
Too funny
While attachment parenting isn’t my cup of tea I have no issue with it or this cover. She’s pretty. IIRC a news org had talked to a breastfeeding group and they said while this lady was pretty they really wanted the cover to be someone like Jennifer Gardner.. .drool.
@marinm
Christina Hendricks…..
This isn’t a locker room.
That kid is way too old to be nursing. I think the cover is vulgar.
I’m with Seth! I mean–Really?
@Cargosquid
Firefly. If you haven’t watched it yet. Rent it. Buy it. Netflix it.
“I think the cover is vulgar.”
Do you object to breastfeeding in general or only because of the childs age?
@marinm
Oh, I’ve seen Firefly. Go Browncoats!
The cover is vulgar. Like Seth said, its all about context and positioning.
But that photoshop rocked!
I haven’t seen the video. 🙁 I lack headphones in my new cubicle.. So, MH if my question is out of context — ignore it!! 🙂
I credit Firefly with moving my wife from left-populism (Edwards) towards libertarianism. I love it when she questions (government) why things are the way they are. You can tell something’s clicked when it goes from, “Why is gas so expensive?” to “We could save $5 a tank if the government didn’t charge us a tax!”. Helps when I push her over the edge by saying, that $5 could’ve bought food for the kids……………….
57th Overlanders Brigade –> is going on the minivan!!!!!
On the other hand, if you didn’t have that tax on gasoline you might not have roads to drive on.
Ask the Brits about their gasoline tax.
@marinm
Age and location. That is a kid, not a baby. I don’t think we need breastfeeding on the front cover of Time at least published like that. Could there be an appropriate cover? Perhaps, although I can’t think of it off hand. Regardless, that ain’t it!
I have seen part of Firefire. I couldn’t make it through the entire thing.
Well, here is how I see it. I am a huge advocate of breastfeeding, I breastfed Rachael till she was 3, but by then, it was only at night. Breast are not sexual objects they are for nourishment, MEN have made them into playthings where evolution dicated they be for food, comfort and attachment.
Having said that, the depiction on Time does NOT do that relationship justice. Surely there are more meaningful pics that would represent long term breastfeeding better than that!
for a great pic time should have “photo shopped out the chair”………that is hilarous Seth!
@Moon-howler
I have no issue with Elena breastfeeding Rachel till she was 3. Nor do I have one with this lady and her son. I agree with Elena that breastfeeding is abour nourishment and attachment. If a family unit wants to do that later than ‘most people’ that’s their decision.
Elena, I would say God made them into playthings when he attached them to the central nervous system. Men are just the benefeciaries. 🙂 🙂 🙂
“I don’t think we need breastfeeding on the front cover of Time at least published like that.”
I think we do. We need to say it loud and proud!! Women should no longer have to feel like second class citizens when feeding a child. If a man can go shirtless in society why can’t a woman do the same?
EQUAL RIGHTS!!!!! (except my daughter or wife)
Alternate Time cover: http://dailyrushbo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/TImeCoversObamaChildRearing.jpg
@Cato the Elder
You are my hero.
Barf time. Oh, and if that kid on the cover is 3 I will eat my hat.
Have fun folks. Yuck.
@marinm
You don’t want FAT kids, do you? :>)
As far as I know, dogs and cats and most animals wean their young
when they, the young, are able to eat other food.
Man, oh, man – I really feel for that young boy!!!!!!
@punchak
Heh. At their age $5 goes a long way………. In reality we buy 5 cans of baby formulae every outting to Sams Club. Each can is $22~. I think a can lasts us 5-7 days. So the initial outlay sucks but the cost per ounce factored over days isn’t bad at all. If only I could eat so cheaply. 😉
We’ve introduced Stage 2 foods including processed meats (gerber) and we augment with additional rice (my daughter is 5% where my son is 95%).
I need to fatten her up some (not TOO fat!) so that I may acquire a good bride price from her and increase my holdings….. Wait, what century are we in?
I hope she commits patricide for that remark.
Not sure where “fat kids” came into the conversation, but breast fed babies, just by the nature of breast feeding, are rarely, if ever overweight.
From WHO:
Breastfeeding is the normal way of providing young infants with the nutrients they need for healthy growth and development. Virtually all mothers can breastfeed, provided they have accurate information, and the support of their family, the health care system and society at large.
Colostrum, the yellowish, sticky breast milk produced at the end of pregnancy, is recommended by WHO as the perfect food for the newborn, and feeding should be initiated within the first hour after birth.
Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended up to 6 months of age, with continued breastfeeding along with appropriate complementary foods up to two years of age or beyond.
american academy of pediatrics:
AAP Reaffirms Breastfeeding Guidelines
2/27/2012
Article Body
Breastfeeding is a natural and beneficial source of nutrition and provides the healthiest start for an infant. In addition to the nutritional benefits, breastfeeding promotes a unique and emotional connection between mother and baby. In the policy statement, “Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk,” published in the March 2012 issue of Pediatrics (published online Feb. 27), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) reaffirms its recommendation of exclusive breastfeeding for about the first six months of a baby’s life, followed by breastfeeding in combination with the introduction of complementary foods until at least 12 months of age, and continuation of breastfeeding for as long as mutually desired by mother and baby.
This recommendation is supported by the health outcomes of exclusively breastfed infants and infants who never or only partially breastfed. Breastfeeding provides a protective effect against respiratory illnesses, ear infections, gastrointestinal diseases, and allergies including asthma, eczema and atopic dermatitis. The rate of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is reduced by over a third in breastfed babies, and there is a 15 percent to 30 percent reduction in adolescent and adult obesity in breastfed vs. non-breastfed infants.
@Elena
“fat kids” comes from marinm’s comment that he’d have $5 extra for food for his kids
if the gasoline tax were lower OR wasn’t raised or something like that. Had nothing to do with breast feeding. But you sure got into that subject. Thanks for the lesson.
(I really just skimmed it – less fat that way)
This is NOT a dispersion of any kind, as I believe that my wife breastfeeding my two boys was a miracle. I am so convinced that it’s the right thing to do….I could never be convinced otherwise, and I feel bad for those who cannot or will not do it. But if I had to pick a “La Leche” type from this crowd, it’d be Elena.
That would probably be the right choice, Slow. I am not sure why you think something that is biological and has kept the human race going since it began is a miracle but ok. I won’t argue.
Here we go with the moral superiority. Those who chose to breastfeed are good. Those who chose not to are bad.
Makes perfect sense to me. It usually fits right in with working mom syndrome and the right to life crowd in that it really is a way to put others down without realizing it.
Please. Everyone. Spare me the “well that’s not what we mean.” I have been listening to the rhetoric for years…longer than some of you all have been on this earth and the meaning doesn’t change, regardless of the backpeddling steps taken.
I am going to go on record saying I think it is up to the woman and her doctor (and maybe her spouse), sort of like some of the other issues we have been discussing on this blog.
Plenty of women do not nurse because 1. They don’t want to 2. They can’t 3. They aren’t in family situations that support it. 4. they want their partner more involved 5. Their work schedule makes it too difficult. 6. They adopted. 7. They are male. 8. other reasons that people shouldn’t have to justify
Those women are ok too and should be respected as parents without any equivocation.This is an area where I have seen women bullied and I do not like it. I am sure its not the intent but it is the outcome.
Well, I thought a lot of things about the whole experience was miraculous. Maybe with the breastfeeding, miraculous isn’t the right word, but kind of an overwhelming sense of respect for my wife……maybe that’s a better way to put it.
There are several examples on youtube of 6,7,8 year olds that still breastfeed. Dude.
And good for you that you have new respect for your wife. I think anyone who has a baby deserves a certain respect.
I had one of those come to Jesus meetings with a couple of friends when my son and his wife had their baby. A friend of mine asked me if my son’s wife was going to nurse. I said I didn’t know. She said why didn’t you ask. I said it wasn’t any of my business. I then said I would never ask her that. If she wanted me to know or my opinion she would ask. These two people were floored and both were extremely smug. Its then I decided that this was an area used to bully people. I had never put it into that thought process. I had been aware of it for years…just never had a word for it. One of the friends was a la leche coach in her youth. I think she saw that title as giving her special privileges or something. I am not sure. That sure isn’t something I would badger a new daughter in law with one way or the other.
People in their zealotry often forget how they make others feel. It isn’t intentional. That is why I wrote my diatribe. Its a walk a mile in someone else’s moccasins message for all….men and women alike.
Exhibit A. http://pinterest.com/pin/69665125455912609/
Breastfeeding is tough! And for many, not possible. I watched my wife with our oldest boy and I gotta take my hat off to her, she really hung in there and made it work. Most people wouldn’t have had that kind of patience. When my youngest started breast-feeding like a pro the night he was born, I breathed a HUGE sigh of relief…..I knew we were over a huge hurdle.
Actually, I’d suggest one improvement for the front cover. Photoshopping the chair out is a good idea…I like it….but I’d have the kid reaching around and grabbing her butt.
@Slowpoke,
Thanks for convincing me you are a pervert. That is so inappropriate.
Just something to think about…why do mammals wean their young? You got it. Teeth.
@SlowpokeRodriguez
HAHAHA.. I don’t care who you are; that was funny.
I was thankful that at PWH they have lactation consultants that are not part of La Leche. When my wife had to stop breastfeeding after about two months because of medication that would interact with her milk — the consultant understood where La Leche would’ve probably beat her down and tell her that she wasn’t a fit mother.
I hope the kid gives her mommy a good Mothers’ Day present!!
It looks like Marin is reinforcing what I said. I find that group to be a bully group for the most part.
There is lots of La Leche thinking out there though.
Most medication in interactive. That’s a real problem for people who have had C sections or rough deliveries.