This week's Time cover shows mom breastfeeding 3-year-old

NEW YORK — Shocking or no big deal? A woman breastfeeding her 3-year-old son is the cover photo of this week's Time magazine for a story on "attachment parenting," and reactions ranged from applause to cringing to shrugs.

The photo showed Jamie Lynne Grumet, 26, a stay-at-home mom in Los Angeles who says her mother breastfed her until she was 6 years old. She told the magazine in an interview that she's given up reasoning with strangers who see her son nursing and threaten "to call social services on me or that it's child molestation."

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Free the other one

the English have a saying:
"get off my tits"
very apropos here

PROTIP: Hey moms, if you want your kid to get beat up, do this!

it's sad that that 3 year old gets more access to boob than I do.

Although he'll also probably grow up with an oedipus complex.

World Health Organization (WHO) - "The vast majority of mothers can and should breastfeed, just as the vast majority of infants can and should be breastfed... The WHO recommends exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life, after which infants should receive nutritionally adequate and safe complementary foods while breastfeeding continues for up to two years of age or beyond."

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) - "Extensive research using improved epidemiologic methods and modern laboratory techniques documents diverse and compelling advantages for infants, mothers, families, and society from breastfeeding and use of human milk for infant feeding. These advantages include health, nutritional, immunologic, developmental, psychologic, social, economic, and environmental benefits. The AAP recommends exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life. Furthermore, breastfeeding should be continued for at least the first year of life and beyond for as long as mutually desired by mother and child."

Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, Time was a reputable magazine with actual well-written news stories.

Am I the only one who thinks she looks much older than 26?

HumDoHamaraDo said:   KayK said:   Am I the only one who thinks she looks much older than 26?
You were looking at her face?Better than that A cup..

scrouds said:   0AfterRebates said:   As long as she is not breastfeeding in public I don't see a problem with it.

They've enacted laws in some states that let them breastfeed any damn place they like. Even your own home.

Horrific! Mothers feeding their children!

(sorry about your Mom)

That's a huge 3 year old.

This would seem a good place for the chocolate breast milk experiment link, in case you haven't read it before.

morecowbell said:   talljay said:   Estimates vary but it looks like breastfeeding eliminates 200-800 calories/day. Sounds like a great diet plan!

"Junior! Come over here and help your mama lose some weight so I can fit in that wedding dress!"i must be missing something here. calories are calculated by the amount of energy expended, not by a loss of physical matter. so...wth are they doing that's so strenuous?

Generating breast milk. It's nutritious and calorie dense. That has to come from somewhere.

morecowbell said:   talljay said:   Estimates vary but it looks like breastfeeding eliminates 200-800 calories/day. Sounds like a great diet plan!

"Junior! Come over here and help your mama lose some weight so I can fit in that wedding dress!"i must be missing something here. calories are calculated by the amount of energy expended, not by a loss of physical matter. so...wth are they doing that's so strenuous?

Calories are just a measure of energy. When you eat something, your body might use some of that energy to do things, it might store some as fat or expel some as poop or breast milk (likely the former in your case).

historically, infants and toddlers were breastfed. it's only been in the last several decades, in westernized countries where young mothers returned to work, that breastfeeding became less of a norm.
i think the perception of breastfeeding has been changed in our country just since maybe the 40's or 50's and now changing back somewhat.

GeorgiaBulldawg said:   
The photo showed Jamie Lynne Grumet, 26, a stay-at-home mom in Los Angeles who says her mother breastfed her until she was 6 years old.somehow i read this as "jamie lynne gourmet"

It's amazing that a photoshopped cover can trigger a mod's itchy finger.

Playboy spread in 3, 2, 1....The Land of Milk and Honey...

Where is the mommy war for motherless children?

just a different perspective.

Desperation?