<I love the way the mother is gesturing with one hand and holding the
baby's shoes in the other, even as she talks to her president. Now that's
an image of motherhood in all its glory!! Beautiful. >

<More importantly, there is no caption mentioning the fact that the woman
is breastfeeding and the President seems to be oblivious to the fact that
her breast is exposed because it is serving its intended function. I like
the baby's fist up in the air as if he's saying "You're interrupting my
mealtime and my mom's paying attention to you instead of me! Go away!"
What a great photo! >

<You also know it's the norm in that country because the gentleman is
looking at the mother's face. >

In addition to some of the great points already mentioned (above), if I
remember correctly, the president has his hand on her shoulder,
beseeching her opinion, earnestly focusing on their conversation, while
she is "breastfeeding her child wherever she has the right to be", all
the while coping competently with a natural disaster without missing a
beat in caring for her child. How fortuitous that she chose on that day
to wear such a beautiful, brilliant red dress. What a poster
mom-and-child! Could this South American photo be destined to become a
classic illustration just as the picture of the Middle-Eastern mother
with thriving breastfed male twin and starving formula fed female twin,
or the internet classic of last year of the oriental mother's toddler
baby leaning over to try latching on a bronze statue in a museum???

Jean
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K. Jean Cotterman RNC, IBCLC
Dayton, Ohio USA

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