With the Time magazine cover has come many many opportunities for us to talk
about breastfeeding in social and mainstream media, and in our private
lives.

 

I have seen the term "extended" breastfeeding used frequently in the past 2
days.

 

Let's take this opportunity whenever we can, to model more appropriate and
accurate terms, and even correct the use of "extended" when possible.

 

How about "full-term breastfeeding" or "normal-term"  or
"biological/physiologically normal breastfeeding"  or even just plain
"breastfeeding"?

 

I'm so excited to see all the discussion that's happened in the mainstream
over the past 48 hours.  I've been happily surprised to see interviewers ask
the Time editor whether the posing of the cover was appropriate (as opposed
to blasting the moms who AP).   There's been articles that have used the
media interest to point to the important topics of WHY women aren't
supported to nurse beyond infancy.

 

I'll try to post some of these positive pieces:

 


Time cover masks problem: Too few kids breast-fed


Read more:
<http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Time-cover-masks-problem-Too-few-kids
-breast-fed-3552351.php#ixzz1ube6fLkN>
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Time-cover-masks-problem-Too-few-kids-
breast-fed-3552351.php#ixzz1ube6fLkN

 

No.  I Am Not Mom Enough.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-belkin/no-i-am-not-mom-enough_b_1507550.h
tml

 

CNN  (various interviews, with Dr Sears, the cover-photo mom, and Mayim
Bialik)

 

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/10/breastfeeding-too-much-of-a-good-th
ing/?iref=allsearch

 

 

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2012/05/11/bts-erin-grumet-breastf
eeding-mom.cnn

 

Today show (interview with cover-photo mom and Dr. Sears)

 

http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/47385461

 

 

Hope this helps

 

Janice Reynolds

Nokomis, Saskatchewan , Canada

 

 

 

 


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