Extended bf pic

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Don't know if this has been linked before but isn't the picture in this article lovely?

(Facial expression only one element of course - the splayed legs, splayed hair, camera angle etc all combine to suggest the presentation of woman as sexual object.)

I must admit that the legs are rather on the SPLAYED side

she must do a lot of yoga for that to come naturally

although admittedly as a mother I often DO find myself naked with splayed legs and naked children jumping on me and pawing at me

but my expression is always

I am often reading the paper too

stroppy - for me, feeding toddlers/ebf has just been about going with the flow/following my children and their needs and letting them self wean. I never saw any reason to stop and so just carried on.
there are contined nutritional benefits - breast milk is in every way superior to cow's milk, is the reality, for human beings. I was also never happy with the highly processed nature of formula, or the ethics of the companies producing formula.
you don't need formula to get iron into a child - an older child will get iron through their diet.
the nutritional benefits (including the continued benefits of immunity - which are significant) have always been secondary for me to the emotional and psychological benefits of allwoing a child to continue with something that provided immense comfort and pleasure, even if it was sometimes a bit irritating and inconvenient.
also very cheap!

stroppy - my ds (18 m) LOVES bfing. Weaning him would be pretty traumatic. So I'm just carrying on until he's more willing to give it up. Why not?

It also makes it very easy to put him to bed, he grabs me by the hand and drags me to his room to get his feed!

Reading through all those posts saying 'she should be looking at her dc' (while bfing ds) made me feel guilty, so I decided I would do the adoring gaze for a bit.

Ds looked at me like this took my chin and pointed my face at the computer and took my hand and put it on the keyboard (all without losing his latch, of course).

I guess he prefers it when I mn....

Well no one likes to be watched while eating ib, do they?

bfing is a great opportunately to watch TV or mumsnet.

I reckon he's cottoned on to the fact that his bfs are a lot longer when I'm distracted....

harpsichord and ib - thankyou. I like the bonding bit of bf, it's just that hardly anyone does it beyond 6 weeks so i feel a bit isolated/weird/as if everyone is staring at me etc. No objections to it tho.

LOL, my ds also says "not want mummy to look" if I gaze at him adoringly!

stroppy - tbh now I tend to only feed ds at bedtime, naptime and first thing in the morning, so no reason anyone would know unless I told them.

Thaks ib - that's interesting. I've always stopped, full stop, sort of thing.

'she should be looking at her dc'

everyone's a flipping expert, arent they? especially the ones who know dick all about it, ime

yes I agree ib. plenty of women carry on the bedtime feed a lot longer than you might think.

Breastfeeding is, IME, not something you really discuss unless either you're a)really passionate about it or b) have a new baby.
Even I don't talk about it that often to people in RL and apart from MN, DP is the only person that knows DS1 has tried to BF again at 3, so I bet a lot of people would think they don't know anyone who has fed an older child, but they do iyswim.

i know someone who did until her dd was 5, she told everyone in the playground last week. Not one person said anything bad.

These albums of pics of bf throughout the ages in art are great. Nothing to do with the OP, though.

Ah, a refinement: her look is subtly come hither!
I will have to take your word for it, Iorek.
As a man I struggle with female subtlety.

I do like the idea of this picture being in the tradition of Titian and Manet!

It is worthwhile reading more about the two paintings (Venus, Olympia) to understand
that they are about much more than just plain old vulgar 'come hither'
even though some people would have dearly liked to deride them thus.

Meanwhile back in the 21st century, let me rephrase my point:
Imagine replacing Kay with Jade Goody.
Everything else - the splayed legs, tight jeans etc - stays as is.
No one would be complaining about objectification.

I think IB has a fairly good grasp of art history DaddyJ.

Why wouldn't we complain about objectification if it was Jade?

Eek! Jade's "kebab"!

definition of sexy?

I'm not deriding Venus or Olympia as anything, DaddyJ. But they are clearly both saucepots.

(How's that for a grasp of art history, pw?).