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A Reality Series About Moms Who Breastfeed Older Kids Is in the Works: Great Idea, or Worst Show Ever?

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Somebody must have realized that they could cash in on that controversial Time magazine cover. TV production company Collins Avenue (makers of "Dance Moms" and "American Stuffers," is developing a reality show about mothers who breastfeed older children, the New York Post reports.

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The health benefits of breastfeeding (for mom and baby) are well known, with most doctors recommending exclusive breastfeeding for at least the first six months of a child's life and then breastfeeding while supplementing with food for at least the second six months. The World Health Organization encourages nursing until at least age 2.

But somehow, the sight of a mom breastfeeding a child over two tends to freak people out, even though the medical advice is mixed on when you "should" stop. "Experienced pediatricians realize that the benefits of breastfeeding don’t just magically disappear after one year," Karen McGratty, a lactation consultant who is nursing her 3-year-old son, told the Post.

"I didn’t set out to nurse a 3-year-old," mom Jessica Cary told the Post. "But two years came and went. Now breastfeeding and mothering are so intertwined for me." Are you interested in learning more about moms who can't give up breastfeeding? Or not in the slightest?
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  • Heisenberg 2012/07/10 17:31:49
    Worst show ever
    Heisenberg
    +31
    Breastfeeding has become the new vehicle for women with exhibitionist tendencies.

    I can pee 5 meters away from the toilet but you don't see me on reality TV showing everyone do you?

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  • ETpro 2012/07/11 14:32:28
    Worst show ever
    ETpro
    +1
    In truth, the reality is reality shows are really not reality and they are really harmful to actual reality. They all provide a distorted view of the world, a "reality" brewed in a TV producer's mind and deliberately aimed at presenting humanity at its most bizarre and outrageous. To the degree the audience thanks what they are seeing is normal life, they degrade the standards for normalcy.

    That said, offer me $50K per episode and sign me up.
  • SiliconSorcerer 2012/07/11 14:25:47
    Great idea
    SiliconSorcerer
    Me Me, I'll volunteer!
  • Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆ 2012/07/11 14:25:45
    Worst show ever
    Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆
    +3
    I can't imagine such a thing.
  • Gracie ... Temlako... 2012/07/12 03:47:00
    Gracie ~Gun Totin' Gracie~
    +1
    Anything to make money.
  • Callaway 2012/07/11 14:25:13
    Worst show ever
    Callaway
    +1
    I just don't find a damn thing compelling about this add this one to the ever growing list of inane reality shows.
  • mmccoy 2012/07/11 14:22:08
    Great idea
    mmccoy
    +3
    Just let them be its there choice
  • the judgebigdogeagle 2012/07/11 12:41:41
    Worst show ever
    the judgebigdogeagle
    +3
    Oh Boy ! That company. They are running out of ideas.
  • Bill 2012/07/11 12:31:10
    Worst show ever
    Bill
    +1
    In my opinion its stupid and a waste of air-time.
  • jerry.alan.carroll 2012/07/11 12:11:31
    Great idea
    jerry.alan.carroll
    as porn maybe! Just kidding, I think this is a terrible idea.
  • Smokey 2012/07/11 12:08:06
    Worst show ever
    Smokey
    Not a good idea, but out of curiousity, I"d probably watch a few episodes. :) lol
  • cowboy 2012/07/11 11:24:23
    Worst show ever
    cowboy
    +1
    Normally, I would vote for anything that puts focus on the boobies. (Baywatch, anyone?)
    But this is just stupid.
  • AM 2012/07/11 11:22:01
    Worst show ever
    AM
    +6
    When the kid can slip mom a note telling her he's hungry you'd think she'd be over it.
  • Roberta Richardson 2012/07/11 10:54:46
    Worst show ever
    Roberta Richardson
    +3
    You are kidding me, right? Who gives a flying fig? Who is going to watch this other than someone with an odd fetish who's internet has crashed? Add it in to the long list of mindless tv such as Real Housewives and Jersey Shores.
  • Super_Doodles 2012/07/11 10:21:03
    Worst show ever
    Super_Doodles
    If you record it, they will watch
  • SJG 2012/07/11 10:17:33
    Great idea
    SJG
    May even get to see some boobies!!!
  • Gaven Small 2012/07/11 09:50:27
  • aneed2know 2012/07/11 09:30:18
    Great idea
    aneed2know
    +1
    what is this unhealthy attitude we Americans have about our bodies? I have lived in a lot of countries and by far the land of progressive ideals and free thinkers has got to be the most puritanical country on earth save most of the Middle Eastern countries. Breast are not a sex organ we all have them some have more fat than others and yes some men (straight men) can produce milk.

    Americans are afraid of everything why is this, we are afraid of a nipple, we are afraid of fake fictional characters carrying a purse because our sons may grow up to be gay. I am willing to bet at some time in all American men lives as a child we had a purse, i know i did i kept my GI-Joes and Stretch Armstrong in it and i can assure anyone i am as far away from being gay as a man can get.

    News flash America they are only breast, yes we men love to look at them and yes they make women more attractive, but do we really know why? Get over it America their breast, they provide some of the best food a child can have.

    Come close my fellow American men, i want to share something with you.


    All the women gone, let your wife, girlfriend breast feed, you will save a lot of money and you will get your fun bags back.
  • USAF Vet 2012/07/11 09:07:39
    Worst show ever
    USAF Vet
    +1
    Apart from the perverts, who wants to see some kid suckling his brain dead mother's tit?
  • meshell 2012/07/11 08:27:32
    Worst show ever
    meshell
    +8
    this is redicelous, breastfeeding a child after it is of an age to eat solids goes beyond that special bond, every woman, man and his dog knows the stimulation/arousal of having your breasts fondled, suckled. i dont see a problem when nursing babies, but beyond solids, you"ve got to wonder... it was said to me, nursing a baby thats find but when do they start looking at it as a form of childabuse. he had a blooby good question, that i couldnt give him an answer for. who old is to old to be breastfeeding. if i in the middle of a plaza whip out my milkers and start to feed an 8yr old child, how would this be seen?
    do you think these mums go to school to feed their kids during the day? cause if they dont need it during the day , they dont need it at all.

    breastfeeding older children breastfeeding older children breastfeeding older children
  • stevegt... meshell 2012/07/11 15:10:52
    stevegtexas@aol.com
    that is a BIT biazarro!!!!
  • meshell stevegt... 2012/07/11 15:47:47
    meshell
    biazarro??? dont know the word.
  • Pinball Wizard 2012/07/11 08:21:43
    Worst show ever
    Pinball Wizard
    +2
    I would not care to watch that.
  • Link 2012/07/11 08:16:51
    Worst show ever
    Link
    +1
    A lot (most) of the so-called "Reality Shows" are stupid... and quite a few of them aren't even based on reaity at all...
  • meshell Link 2012/07/11 08:36:37
    meshell
    why would they think the world or America for starters, (till it comes to us) would like to sit down and watch a bunch of women flopping big ass saggy boobies out to feed their kindy aged kids, and listen to them defend their reasons .
  • aneed2know meshell 2012/07/11 09:31:42
    aneed2know
    +1
    simple, Americans have a uncomfortable attitude when it comes to sex and the naked body. That simple
  • meshell aneed2know 2012/07/11 09:50:09
    meshell
    +1
    if they did they wouldnt flaunt themselves like they do, not the point. Who wants to watch somene breastfeed weather it be a baby or a kid. the kid part is to far.
  • aneed2know meshell 2012/07/11 09:55:51
    aneed2know
    +1
    like who? Not Americans, i have been to Australia and i can tell you i saw more nudity on Network TV then i ever saw in America. Come on now lets keep it real here. We are the most sexually repressed country out side the Middle East.
  • meshell aneed2know 2012/07/11 10:07:57
    meshell
    +1
    who are you trying to kid 1 nudity and breastfeeding a KID are 2 totally different topics and 2 Americans sexually repressed. come on mate, you may be able to fool yourselves but you cant fool the rest of the world. sexually repressed my HINEY.
  • aneed2know meshell 2012/07/11 10:17:11
    aneed2know
    +1
    i can tell you dont watch enough of American TV. We hate sex but love media generated violence. Hell all you have to do is recall how the boob shot seen across the world made the American right go crazy. I am not fooling the rest of the world, the world knows how sexually repressed Americans are.
  • meshell aneed2know 2012/07/11 14:27:26
    meshell
    well some of you sure dont act it. most of the shows i see from over there, real ppl shows, surf patrol, cops etc, there seem to be a lot of easy looking skanks running around there blind happy to give it up to someone or another.. at least that what it shows , unless they are just a bunch of prickteasers.
  • aneed2know meshell 2012/07/12 04:21:13
    aneed2know
    prick-teasers and hypocrites, that is why we are one of the most sexually repressed countries in the world.
  • meshell aneed2know 2012/07/12 07:42:38
    meshell
    ok my friend, we'll go with that then. Do you get out much?
  • Lyana 2012/07/11 08:07:43
    Worst show ever
    Lyana
    +2
    This whole crazy widespread outbreak of reality TV shows has got to STOP! -_-*
  • Pronatalist Pronatalist 2012/07/11 08:02:28
    Worst show ever
    Pronatalist Pronatalist
    +1
    I have nothing against mothers breastfeeding their children in public. But can they please stop pushing the envelope, trying to make the most bizarre "reality" TV shows? Most people just don't see any reason, why older children need to be breastfed. And it's too narrow a topic, to base a stupid TV show on anyway.

    Is it any wonder that more people are cutting off the TV channels, and streaming data off the internet to their TVs? TV is getting too weird, and too much an irrelevant waste of time.

    Most of the time my TV is on, I am watching YouTube on it. I can't stand the corporate-controlled mainstream misleadia.

    youtube app youtube app
  • DDogbreath 2012/07/11 07:55:05
    Worst show ever
    DDogbreath
    +5
    My mom is so old all she's got left is powdered milk.

    mom shes powdered milk
  • Amy ♥ ... DDogbreath 2012/07/11 12:11:36
    Amy  ♥ HELL HATH NO FURY ♥
    +2
    hahahahahahaha, thanks I needed that =)

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  • Playerazzi 2012/07/11 07:49:35
    Worst show ever
    Playerazzi
    Eeeeewwwww.
  • Rob Williams 2012/07/11 07:42:31
    Worst show ever
    Rob Williams
    +2
    I saw a one hour documentary on this subject and that was enough. I honestly can't see there being enough material for a series.

    There will be a lot of interest to start off with... mainly teenage boys hoping to see a nipple!
  • LUFXIII 2012/07/11 07:40:35
    Worst show ever
    LUFXIII
    not totaly tho
  • geneticmistake 2012/07/11 07:40:14
    Great idea
    geneticmistake
    +2
    ...if they want viewers into incest and pedophilia. There are few groups of people I can see watching this. One group are mothers who like the sensation of breastfeeding so much they want justification to continue beyond what is typical. Most Americans don't eat healthy enough for breastfeeding to really be beneficial once the child can eat food. Then there are those who would watch and have sexual fantasies about children and incest.

    Seems to me the producers are using the Time magazine article to capitalize on "sex sells". Time turned suckling kids into a mainstream news story. Creating a reality show following the article gives the show "legitimacy". But I just don't see average tv viewers being interested in this. The two mentioned groups will likely make up the vast majority of the audience. Not something the producers should be proud of.

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