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Does this cover shock you? The Time magazine cover, which is about attachment parenting has been causing a storm all weekend with comments ranging from ‘it’s normal and beautiful’ to ‘it’s sick and wrong’. Wherever you stand on the idea of attachment parenting, which encourages mothers to breastfeed into toddlerhood, co-sleep, and carry their babies in a sling in an effort to limit their time away from their child, this cover has done breastfeeding zero favours.
While the magazine’s aim was no doubt to sell as many issues as possible (lets pick a mum who looks like a model rather than the founder or the movement Dr Bill Sears), the image definitely doesn’t make it easier for women to breastfeed especially those who struggle with both breastfeeding and the idea of breastfeeding in public.
I think it’s hard enough to convince people that breastfeeding is a normal and natural thing without complicating the issue with discussions about extended breastfeeding. The fact is well over half of UK mums stop breastfeeding by the time their babies are six weeks old (though 90% of those who stop don’t want to).
So whatever your thoughts on breastfeeding big kids (and by the way there’s no research that says it’s bad for the child) I wish magazines like TIME wouldn’t go out of their way to sensationalize the topic like this.
But what are your thoughts? Let me know.
At the moment I seem to have permanent PMS. I’m tired, cranky, impatient and don’t get me started on the physical symptoms. As for emotional, even an advert about Nikon cameras made me well up …
Yesterday I had a great mum day.
Firstly my daughter walked straight into dog muck on her way to school and freaked out royally (not that I blame her seeing as some dog owner had left …
One reason why I love weekends and bank holidays so much is that I don’t have to do the school run. Which of late, like many mums and dads has become the bane of my …
I don’t know what’s wrong with some journalists but quite why the Daily Mail has reignited the debate that some women are too ugly for TV is beyond me. Isn’t it bad enough that our …
I don’t know about you but ever since I have had kids, my ability to well up at every heartbreaking story seems to be on the super sensitive setting. So last night when I read …
I don’t know about you but I love online communities, whether they are about food, fashion, parenting or my very favourite – everything combined. Over my parenting years I’ve found them reassuring through pregnancy, fantastically …
An interesting thing happened at a session at the library this morning. Post story time, just as the kids (mostly babies and toddlers under 2) began to play, one mother started to breastfeed her baby. …
I’m tired, are you tired? If you lived in our house, this would be a very popular daily conversation, or rather competition. My husband and I start our day with this refrain and usually end …
If your child suffers from asthma, eczema, a food allergy, hay fever or one of the many other types of allergy, you’re not alone. It’s predicted that allergies now affect 40-50%of the population, with the …
There’s an interesting article in The Daily Mail today saying that four out of five 16-year-old boys and girls regularly access porn online while one in three ten-year-olds has seen explicit material.
The statistics come from …
Having a five year old girl who is obsessed with ballet (Angelina Ballerina has a lot to answer for), I was interested to see a story on BBC Breakfast this morning about how the ballet …
The National Trust has come in for some flack this weekend for daring to come up with a bucket list of things kids might like to try outdoors before they hit their teen years. The …
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