Jamie lynne grumet biography
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After an image of her breastfeeding her thenyear-old son went viral, Jamie Grumet was ridiculed. Today, moms still have an impossible task, she says.
- Jamie Grumet went viral for breastfeeding her thenyear-old in
- She says many parenting "choices" aren't really intentional because society doesn't support mothers.
- This is part of Insider's "Super mom? Super judged" series. Read more here.
In the photo, her 3-year-old son stands on a stool, craning to latch onto her breast.
It wasn't the photo Jamie Grumet thought Time magazine would run. The staged pose wasn't the "best representation" of what it's like to breastfeed a toddler, she said. Still, when the photo of her breastfeeding her son, Aram, ran on a cover of the magazine with the words "Are you mom enough?" Grumet went viral.
Whoopi Goldberg and Elisabeth Hasselbeck ridiculed the photo on "The View," Rush Limbaugh memed it, TMZ chased down Grumet and her family in a Los Angeles park, and men mailed letters to her apart
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The above photo better represents Jamie Lynne Grumet as I know her.
Several years ago, during an interview with a homeopathic doctor for an ailment of mine, she mentioned she still breastfed her 5-year old son. I backed out of her office like she were a crazed circus clown gunman, never to return again to that wackjob.
If I'd seen TIME's "Are You Mom Enough?" wildly controversial cover of year old Jamie Lynne Grumet nursing her 3-year old son Aram and not personally known her, I would've thought she was a wackjob, too.
Here's the thing, since meeting Jamie through our blogging community, , she has shattered all of my preconceived notions about attachment parenting and the men and women who practice it.
First, her sons Aram and Samuel have no separation anxiety. They don't cling, whine, cry, pout, interrupt, throw tantrums, manipulate, coerce or hold their parents hostage in any way. When Jamie and I went out to dinner with our husbands a couple of weeks ago, leaving
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Time's attachment parenting mom breastfeeds son, now four, on ANOTHER magazine cover
By SADIE WHITELOCKS
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A mother who posed on the cover of TIME magazine breastfeeding her three-and-a-half-year-old son has recreated a similar shot with her child now aged four.
Jamie Lynne Grumet, 26, from Los Angeles, fryst vatten the cover star of this month's Pathways to Family hälsovård Magazine, which advocates attachment parenting - a parenting style that includes co-sleeping with a child, constant skin-on-skin contact, and extended breastfeeding.
Unlike the TIME shot which showed her breastfeeding Aram as he stood on a seat to reach her, the new image shows her sat with him suckling her breast while husband Brian and adopted son Samuel huddle around.
Controversy: Jamie Lynne Grumet, fryst vatten the cover star of this month's Pathways to Family hälsovård Magazine, along with four-year-old Aram, her adopted son Samuel and husband Brian
Photographer Lori Dorman, who captured the famil