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And the cover raised one of the biggest ones regarding extended breast feeding: how old is too old to nurse?
In my youth nursing farm moms often did so until 2-4 years old, depending on the kid, but today it's "weird."
Main article: http://ideas.time.com/dr-william-sea...de-motherhood/
Extended feeding: http://healthland.time.com/2012/05/1...than-we-think/
In my youth nursing farm moms often did so until 2-4 years old, depending on the kid, but today it's "weird."
Main article: http://ideas.time.com/dr-william-sea...de-motherhood/
Extended feeding: http://healthland.time.com/2012/05/1...than-we-think/
Extended Breast-Feeding: Is It More Common than We Think?
Why I (quietly) nursed my three kids well past their first birthdays, and why this doesn't automatically mean I believe in attachment parenting
It’s hard to ignore TIME’s May 21 cover. There’s Jamie Lynne Grumet, looking every bit the supermodel in superskinny jeans, ballet flats and a strappy tank top with the neckline tugged down to make way for … her nearly 4-year-old son. He’s breast-feeding.
Over the past few months, breast-feeding has grabbed headlines as moms have staged nationwide nurse-ins to draw attention to their right to breast-feed in public. Mothers with babes in arms have collectively bared their breasts in Target stores; they’ve had their infants latch on at Facebook’s headquarters and at the state capitol in Georgia.
But the campaign for greater acceptance of nursing in public — and all those detractors who recoil when they see a mother feeding a baby just as her body is programmed to do — pales next to the startling image of Grumet feeding a boy who clearly doesn’t need breast milk to thrive. Or does he?
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Why I (quietly) nursed my three kids well past their first birthdays, and why this doesn't automatically mean I believe in attachment parenting
It’s hard to ignore TIME’s May 21 cover. There’s Jamie Lynne Grumet, looking every bit the supermodel in superskinny jeans, ballet flats and a strappy tank top with the neckline tugged down to make way for … her nearly 4-year-old son. He’s breast-feeding.
Over the past few months, breast-feeding has grabbed headlines as moms have staged nationwide nurse-ins to draw attention to their right to breast-feed in public. Mothers with babes in arms have collectively bared their breasts in Target stores; they’ve had their infants latch on at Facebook’s headquarters and at the state capitol in Georgia.
But the campaign for greater acceptance of nursing in public — and all those detractors who recoil when they see a mother feeding a baby just as her body is programmed to do — pales next to the startling image of Grumet feeding a boy who clearly doesn’t need breast milk to thrive. Or does he?
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