Last week Time magazine caused a bit of a stir when they published a coverphoto that featured a mother breastfeeding her almost 4-year old son. Today we get to see a humorous tribute photo shared by American Pie actor Jason Biggs wherein he recreates the photo with his wife Jenny Mollen. As you can see below, Biggs is clamped onto his wife’s breast much like the almost 4-year old boy is clamped to his mother’s breast on the cover of Time magazine. I’m not sure if the Biggs photo is an endorsement or not but, I have to say, it’s pretty humorous.
@jennyandteets: Are you wife enough?
To be honest, I’m surprised we haven’t seen more tribute photos like this. Time really made a sensation last week with its coverstory, clearly Jason Biggs and his wife wanted to poke a little fun at the hoopla. I, personally, don’t have an opinion on the Time article. I think breastfeeding is a natural, beautiful thing and far be it for anyone to tell a mother when and how to nurture her child. As for this Jason Biggs photo, yeah, it’s funny … but not because it’s making fun of breastfeeding … the humor is more potent because it’s poking fun at the hoopla generated by the Time coverstory.
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hahaha love it
I love the guy just chilling in the background on the couch. It’s like it’s an everyday occurance and doesn’t bother him.
I think that if a child can use words to tell his/her mother that they’re hungry then they are too old to be breastfed. 3-4 year old kids are old enough to be in school…
Personally, I think breastfeeding until the pre-school age is a little odd but it’s not my place to tell any woman when to stop. I’m sure many people thought that I was weird to breastfeed my son until he was 16 months old. In fact, at 11 months, his daycare teacher and director started telling me that I needed to stop breastfeeding. Mind you, it wasn’t b/c I was doing it in the daycare b/c I only breasted at home at that point. It just came up in coversation and they decided, indepdent of any medical literature, that breastfeeding would impede his ability to drink from a sippy cup, which was ridiculous b/c he was already drinking from a sippy cup on his own and a regular cup w/ assistance. Anyway, I mention my experience only b/c I was absolutely livid that they would try to shame me into stopping breastfeeding based on their own misinformation so I certainly wouldn’t try to do the same to any other woman.
Well said, Z. I couldn’t agree more. I breastfed until my daughter was just about a year and a half. I had people tell me when my daughter was still an infant (about 8-9months old) “Oh, you’re STILL breastfeeding her??” It is totally a mom’s choice when to stop breastfeeding. Most often the mom and baby/child just gradually stop together. It’s an unspoken, NATURAL (keyword most people don’t get) thing that just happens on it’s own. Breastfeeding until a child is elementary-school age is very rare I think, but just because it’s rare doesn’t make it wrong at all and I would never shame someone else for the way they’re deciding to love and care for their child. And @Vicky – kids talk about their poo and what it looks like to each other, and in all my years of working with children and being a mom, I’ve never heard of any child (even the ones being breastfed) ever talk about it.
The world health organization suggests breastfeeding until 3 or 4 years old. The longer you breastfeed the lower risk of cancer for both mother and child. Check out their website. You will be enlightened as to how important breastfeeding is.
Americans are far too prude about a natural process.
I don’t think that for most people it’s about being prudes. But If a child is old enough to say to another kid “hey guess what I had for breakfast…” which a 3 or 4 year old is definitely able to. I work in a school and some of the stuff the kids tell about their parents is HILARIOUS.
The WHO says “Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended up to 6 months of age, with continued breastfeeding along with appropriate complementary foods up to two years of age or beyond.” I’m not sure where you got the 3-4 year thing from.
http://www.who.int/features/qa/21/en/index.html
@meme the article you link to only says that babies should be fed breast milk exclusively for the first six months. Nothing about what age it should stop.
It is something that is entirely up to the mother and child as to when it should naturally stop. You have to do what’s best for the child and it’s not any ones business to say otherwise.