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Lest anyone take that method of contraception seriously, I can give you a list of babies that were born while the moms were breastfeeding. It lessens the chances, but you can still ovulate at anytime.
I agree that it is provocative.
I imagine that they were trying to sell magazines and to get people talking about this issue (of the magazine, not the topic of breast feeding or attachment parenting or whatever). It appears to be working.
I didn’t plan to do this. It just unfolded, with weeks slipping into months, and months melting into years. I loved nursing my children, the closeness that it engendered, the mandatory time out in a day filled with to-do lists. That said, nursing my children as they got older became largely a private affair — not because I was embarrassed but because they no longer needed to nurse at a restaurant or on a picnic bench.
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I imagine that they were trying to sell magazines and to get people talking about this issue (of the magazine, not the topic of breast feeding or attachment parenting or whatever). It appears to be working.
I agree with the writer. Nothing wrong with b/fing a 3 year old; but this cover is deliberately outrageous. They have deliberately selected a young, hot looking mama and a kid who looks older than his stated age in a less than usual pose. I guess you can put Time right there with all the other checkout tabloids that like to shock and make money.
I agree that it is provocative.
I imagine that they were trying to sell magazines and to get people talking about this issue (of the magazine, not the topic of breast feeding or attachment parenting or whatever). It appears to be working.
/\/\/\ This. Why is the "provocative" thing even a question? It's their job to SELL MAGAZINES. This cover did it's job in a HUGE way, sells magazines, getting written about, getting discussed all over online and off. Whoever picked that cover got a RAISE, trust me. Provocative sells.
As for the subject, I really don't care how you choose to raise your kid as long as you are treating them well.
No, I just have standards . Putting a woman on a ragazine with a boy who does not look like a baby by any stretch of the imagination is nursing with a mother who displays herself to be the ultimate mother, this is off the wall .
I must know many normal people for they are no way tolerant of it at all. It is called having moral standards and what is exploited as motherhood as being provocative.
Ugh, I can't stand people who assume just because people have DIFFERENT morals that they have no morals.
Those of us who accept breast feeding as a natural activity, even for toddlers, have very high morals. They just differ from yours.
Shame on you for claiming that different morals equates to no morals.
Personally, I couldn't care less. A few months ago I would have said something along the lines of "Think of all the kids that are looking at this." Now... fact is we have freedom of speech. Its bittersweet, but mostly sweet. People abuse it, but it still free speech and it is a very useful tool. Would I breastfeed a three year old? No, too many teeth. Would I pose breastfeeding my child for the cover of any magazine? No, because I have a little couth and I don't need attention that badly.
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I'VE actually seen with my own eyes GASP - A ten year old boy walk right over to his mother while she was sitting @ a table talking with other women..lift up her shirt and start to "bottle" on one breast.
Instantly I was overwhelmed with 'thirst"!! I sure am thirsty I said and all them women laughed so hard.
Eskimo's have some very strange customs and traditions!!
It would make you cringe only if you are a closed minded person. Who cares ?
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