Extended bf pic

[VictorianSqualor]

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

I think she looks gorgeous. I truly love this picture.

I agree with maidamess that the styling is a bit sexualised, which is a shame. But still nice to see a pic of extended/tandem feeding - better n'nowt.

this image is sexy but I don't see people saying he should dress like a geography teacher to hold a baby.

god, no. we can't possibly look sexy or attractive when we are breastfeeding, becuase that would be provocative and inappropriate

presumably it is only "appropriate" to look frumpy and unattractive once you are a mother.

I don't see why being sexy and breastfeeding need to be mutually exclusive, though. There is - imo - a big difference between this picture and those awful breastfeeding posters with the bloke's hand on one nork and the baby's on another, etc.

She looks proud and strong and a bit feisty and bloody gorgeous - that's great, I think. I wish I'd had that attitude when breastfeeding - was too worried about trying not to let a flash of breast be seen in case it offended someone's sensibilities. More fool me

urgh how horrible
an attractive man, half naked holding a baby
how inappropriate and sexual. look at how he is looking at that baby! more of a sexy shot than a fatherly shot.
he's probably a paedo.

OTOH, why should a woman have her hair and make-up done and lie with her legs splayed on a bed and her hair artfully arranged and have a photo taken from above?

Let's not pretend that this is some random choice of pose, or that this is the way that this woman looks on any given afternoon. It obviously isn't. I'm not saying it's a bad image, just that it's a shame that women are objectified every frickin moment of the livelong day.

God preserve us from looking 'motherly'.

Personally I get sick to the back teeth of soft-focus, gauzy photos of breastfeeding women looking 'motherly' in white chiffon.

harpsi thats not what I'm saying.

I feel if the one of the main reasons society seems to have a problem with public bf is because breasts are seen as sexual organs and nothing else, why pose sexily (IMO) to challenge this idea? But if you don't feel she is posing sexily then thats fine.

No one is saying bf Mums are frumps. Or need to cover up.

You'd be forgiven for thinking that some women conceive whilst fully dressed in neck to ankle garments by having their husband sneeze on them.

[wears head to toe white chiffon]

[billows, appropriately, whilst feeding 2.6yo DS2]

I think the original pic is a bit provocative too. It's the classic sexy pose in which she so happens to be b/feeding. She is staring at the camera, it's all about her.

I b/fed ds1 until he was 3.5 but I didn't feel the need to try and look sexy while I was doing it.

What about this? Or this? Also "too sexy"?

I agree policywonk, it doesn't look very natural to me - it has been deliberately styled to look this way. If you took away the boys the image would be provacative and that is why I think it makes me slightly uncomfortable.

Loose the splayed legs and the just been shagged hair and this could have been a lovely picture.

It's not about not being sexy per se, I just don't feel the need to look sexy when I am in the process of feeding my children. They are conceived by sex but they don't have to form part of a sexy image.

Interesting what you said beansprout about her staring at the camera. Is it that we expect a photo of a breastfeeding woman to show her gazing lovingly down at her child, not looking at the viewer? That's what I think is interesting about the second picture I linked to.

Twofalls - thanks for phrasing that so much better than I did!!! It's just not how we look when we b/feed!!

drama - I'd say your first link is unstylised and natural, and your second is sexualised.

Again, I don't have any real objections to any of these photos. I'm happy for images of bfing (esp. extended bfing) to be normalised. I just think that lame, sexualised visual cliches are less than ideal.

Those two pictures, especially the first one look very natural to me. Lovely in fact.

But it's not just her looking at the camera. The whole thing has been styled to be rather like a much more alluring picture, in which she just so happens to be b/feeding. That's the whole set up. It's not how b/feeding women look. For starters, who b/feeds stripped to the waist?!