PHOTOS: TIME Magazine Breastfeeding Mom Breastfeeds Son, Now Four, On ANOTHER Magazine Cover

Support: The mother, pictured top right with her husband Brian (top left), Aram (bottom left) and Samuel (bottom right) also breastfeeds five-year-old Samuel


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, is the cover star of this month's Pathways to Family Wellness Magazine, which advocates attachment parenting - a parenting style that includes co-sleeping with a child, constant skin-on-skin contact, and extended breastfeeding.

Controversy: Jamie Lynne Grumet, is the cover star of this month's Pathways to Family Wellness Magazine, along with four-year-old Aram, her adopted son Samuel and husband Brian

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.


Photographer Lori Dorman, who captured the family for the non-profit quarterly, said that she was trying to 'correct the misperception that was created on the TIME cover' which was slammed by critics when it was published in May.

She added: 'Its message was that nursing a three-year-old was outrageous and inappropriate, when in fact nursing a three-year-old is a normal, healthy activity in the world today’.
Mrs Grumet, who was breastfed by her own mother until the age of six, says that she will not stop breastfeeding the toddler until he turns five and she has aimed to provide the same type of support to Samuel, who was adopted from Ethiopia in November of 2010.

Talking about her collaboration with Pathways to Family Wellness Magazine she said that she was happy with the way the publication had addressed the theory of attachment parenting and was disappointed with the reaction TIME's coverage provoked.