Pictures Of Women Breastfeeding Their Babies
In anticipation of world breastfeeding week this year she recruited over 50 photographers in the us canada and ireland to take pictures of mothers breastfeeding their children in public places like parks grocery stores and cafes.
Pictures of women breastfeeding their babies. Breastfeeding in public shouldnt be taboo and striking images like these are meant to change the perception of breastfeeding. Their babies were also well fed and taken care of. Im bowled over by the photo of the woman doing the plank pose while breastfeeding and the cancer photo had tears brimming in my eyes. 13 beautiful photos of women breastfeeding their babies.
Take a look at some of these incredible breastfeeding photos. In victorian times it wasnt taboo for women to breastfeed their babies in public. Talk about an oxytocin boost. Chicago photographer ivette ivens has created a collection of women breastfeeding photos to help change the stigma regarding breastfeeding.
Most black wet nurses were actually compensated to take care of the white babies. Theres a good reason the hashtags brelfies and normalizebreastfeeding are trending mothers are fighting for the right to share their breastfeeding photos on social media in hopes of making. Those pictures of black women breastfeeding white babies came about years ago. So i fail to see how these photos will serve this purpose as they are somewhat erotic.
In recent years new mothers have tried to de stigmatise breastfeeding in public even sharing photos of intimate moments nursing their babies online. And while breastfeeding selfies might still. For more from the breastfeeding project including a look at the breastfeeding bags theyre currently working on distributing to new moms check out their web site and facebook page. Leilani rogers is a texas based photographer who has launched an initiative called the public breastfeeding awareness project pbap.
In honor of black history month here are 22 stunning images of breastfeeding mothers and babies of color that prove it. For breastfeeding to become more widely accepted people need to get used to seeing it as a natural feeding process and this will take time it will take women to prove that the purpose is to feed and nurture not to provoke and offend. They were not forced to choose which they fed and their babies were not starved in order to feed the white babies.