UPDATE: Check out the Great Virtual Breast Fest in support of nursing moms, at the League of Maternal Justice. Tomorrow, 10/10, at 10am, they are having a virtual nurse-a-thon, and they also have a cool photo montage up at YouTube.
In recognition of Facebook’s poor decision that breastfeeding pictures are obscene, that’s the subject of today’s Photo of the Week:
Author: Cheryl Dumesnil and Alan Shannon
A freelance writer and writing coach, Cheryl Dumesnil likes nothing more than laughing at the crazy things her kids say. Her books include a memoir,
Love Song for Baby X: How I Stayed (Almost) Sane on the Rocky Road to Parenthood; a collection of poems,
In Praise of Falling; the anthology
Hitched! Wedding Stories from San Francisco City Hall; and the anthology
Dorothy Parker’s Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos, co-edited with Kim Addonizio. When she’s not writing or teaching, Cheryl’s hiking, yoga-ing, begging her children to stop the potty talk
please, or trying to toss pop flies, without tearing her rotator cuff. Check her out at
CherylDumesnil.com.
Tag your pics #villageq to be included in the family album at
the amazing thing about this picture is I’m the non-lactating, non-bio parent! our baby has nursed on me on and off from the beginning and I’m so lucky to share this relationship with her!
(it definitely helps when I’m alone w her during the day and she needs a nap!)
oh, and thank you: for giving breastfeeding exposure (pun intended!) and for the kudos.
🙂
four breasts = more comfort!
Wow, Pamela! That’s amazing. Thanks for letting us include your picture in the Family Album!