Time Magazine *begs* for attention

[editor]

I'm all for breastfeeding and if it's in public - sure, go for it, because it's totally natural - but this looks a bit, well, desperate for a front cover to my eyes.

What do you reckon?

http://theonlinephotographer.typepa...rapher/2012/05/martin-schoeller-for-time.html

 

[RaverDrew]

fap fap fap

 

[yield]

 

[twentythreedom]

Bitty

 

[Santino]

Who's the God of cricket?

 

[gosub]

since a staff change at our l al laundrette they don't have copies of Time lying around.. Not a bad read while waiting for the tumble drying

 

[equationgirl]

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I'm all for breastfeeding and if it's in public - sure, go for it, because it's totally natural - but this looks a bit, well, desperate for a front cover to my eyes.

What do you reckon?

http://theonlinephotographer.typepa...rapher/2012/05/martin-schoeller-for-time.html

I think it's a desperate front cover too. BBC article on it wasn't too complimentary - although the Daily Mail one was pretty nasty by all accounts.

 

[Ms Ordinary]

First thought is that it's a very oddly posed photo - being of a quite large four year old & a smallish adult adds to that.
The other photo (in your link) looks a bit more natural & representative of what it's like to breastfeed a child that age:

Might not have provoked quite so much debate though, which presumably is the intention.

FWIW I breastfed my daughter till she was the same age as the boy in that photo - thing about extended breastfeeding though, is that it really doesn't tend to happen in public, and when it does it tends to be barely noticeable (for lots of reasons which have very little to with other people's disapproval), so it's very odd to see images of it all.

 

[Ms Ordinary]

(I thought that would just post the photo on the bottom right - but what the hell )

 

[Boppity]

Isn't it recommended that women should ideally breastfeed their children until age 2 or beyond?

If so how strange that in my experience people seem to find breastfeeding past 6-8 months weird.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

That lad is old enough to be eating junkfood. He needs to be weaned on to burgers, pizza and fried chicken. Apart from that the image is perfectly tasteful, neither teats nor areola are visible and that should satisfy the most prude of viewer. The woman has a pretty face I notice, which is unusual in photographic models.

 

[Gingerman]

Lucky kid,dos anyone buy Time or Newsweek for that matter any more? My old man used to get it in the early '70s,remember stumbling across loads of old copies in the attic years ago,spent an afternoon reading Time's coverage of Watergate ,a fascinating snapshot of the era.

 

[frogwoman]

Yeah i've got to say i agree, i find breastfeeding past the age of two a bit weird. im not trying to be judgemental but it's not something i would do,i don't think so anyway. suppose i won't know till i have kids tho.

 

[Col_Buendia]

Look what happens when we abandon our western perspective on this...

And a related article in Time shows that the World Health Organization recommends breast-feeding until at least age two, and the average age of weaning worldwide is around four

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18032390

 

[Hocus Eye.]

My nephew was born in May. Due to the determination of my sister he was eating turkey the following Christmas.

 

[Col_Buendia]

Aye, but it's not an either/or. Our hungry little monster was onto purees by the time he was 5 months old, but he still got breastfed till he was about 18months.

 

[frogwoman]

that's different to doing it till 6 tho isn't it?

 

[Boppity]

Yeah i've got to say i agree, i find breastfeeding past the age of two a bit weird. im not trying to be judgemental but it's not something i would do,i don't think so anyway. suppose i won't know till i have kids tho.

See that's the same with me too. I know that this view has been imposed on me by the culture that I grew up in but I can't help it. My mother breastfed me up until I was 4 months (And I was two months premature!) and I will probably go beyond that, but I'm ashamed to say tbat I think that it won't be by much.

 

[_angel_]

Look what happens when we abandon our western perspective on this...


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18032390

probably makes sense if theres limited food around no formula or cows milk

 

[frogwoman]

I just asked my mum who grew up in rural namibia and she says 1 year max.

 

[_angel_]

Once the baby has sussed feeder cups and bottles r quicker than breast, its game over. Sadly I can't express.

 

[Blagsta]

Yeah i've got to say i agree, i find breastfeeding past the age of two a bit weird. im not trying to be judgemental but it's not something i would do,i don't think so anyway. suppose i won't know till i have kids tho.

It's fairly normal though, in most parts of the world.

 

[Blagsta]

probably makes sense if theres limited food around no formula or cows milk

Makes sense even if there's formula and cow milk.

 

[Blagsta]

Once the baby has sussed feeder cups and bottles r quicker than breast, its game over.

Not IME.

 

[frogwoman]

but isn't that why they get teeth? surely if they got teeth at like 3 or 4 it would make sense to stop then but they actually start getting teeth and eating solid foods quite early. I am not having a go at anyone, but it's not something i'd do, fair enough in countries where there's a shortage of food but i'm fairly sure in most societies it's not really done to carry on till 6 or 7

 

[_angel_]

Makes sense even if there's formula and cow milk.

what i mean is theres more choice for a mum here v one in some famine zone. One of the nastiest things i read was them stopping milk tokens 4 asylum seekers having said that. I dont know if thats still the case.

 

[Blagsta]

They eat solids too, "extended" breast feeding does not mean exclusive breast feeding.

Oh, and milk teeth.

 

[_angel_]

Not IME.

Different babies do different things ime. It annoys me a bit that formula is treated as something shameful when it actually keeps babies alive who wouldn't have made it otherwise.
That said I'm still quite staggered at the hospital's attitude wrt breast feeding the premature babies, really not supportive and telling me to stop almost every time I tried.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Here is a variation on the theme:-

I hope Jamie Lynne Grumet appreciates being likened to Venus.

 

[ska invita]

US cover only
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/europe/0,9263,901120521,00.html