Are You Mom Enough?

by - September 21, 2012

I am Not the Babysitter
It has been some time since the TIME magazine cover that portrayed a woman, Jamie Lynne Grumet, breastfeeding her 3 year old son hit new stands. To say it caused controversy would be an understatement. I follow the woman featured on the cover on Facebook and she recently posed for Pathways to Family Wellness magazine cover, again nursing her son, who is now 4. It is such a beautiful, loving cover. It was also quite the opposite of the TIME cover.  The TIME cover was an outtake from the pictures taken of her nursing her son in a more natural stance. I personally didn't find the photo too off. I did think it was a strange portrayal of nursing your child because he was standing on a chair but I also didn't nurse my son past infancy so maybe that is convenient for him? Anyway, I hated the title of the article, "Are You Mom Enough?" as well but the woman had nothing to do with that. I feel for her as a mother because she is simply doing what she feels is best for her child and that is giving him the most natural thing she can. I admire woman who can nurse their children and be confident about it. America (and maybe some other countries, I really don't know) turns it into such a taboo thing that I think it truly is sad. I miss nursing my son because it was a bonding experience that no one can understand until you actually go through it. It was difficult for me because of my low milk supply but I would go back and go through the Hell I put myself through just to give him and myself that experience again. 
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I wish nursing a child was as normal to see as giving your baby a bottle. We also have to remember that with how many hormones and additives that are added to food these days it is only natural for a mother to want to protect her child from that and if she wants to skip over giving her child cows milk and giving him her own then what is so wrong with that? As a mother who gives her child cows milk I obviously support that choice as well. 
The main point of writing this was to just say that I admire this woman for more then just breastfeeding her son. I admire her for being strong in what she believes in despite how cruel the media has been to her. I admire her for adopting a child who came from very little. I admire her for bringing light to issues such as breastfeeding, adoption and her charity work.
If you have time I suggest checking out her blog I am Not the Babysitter and going straight to her Philanthropy link at the top to really see what an amazing person she is. 
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