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“FULL of fun and mischief, Josephine and Zac Onions are ordinary, healthy children” observers the Mail.

And like all ordinary children of five and three, respectively, they are being breastfed by their mother, Stella Onions.

Of course, we live in times when parents strive to have extraordinary children, giving them names like Apple, Princess Tiaamii and Neville. This means few of any children are ordinary and being suckled by their mothers at school lunchtime.

If only Mrs Jamie Olive can be coerced to stick her nipples through the school gates, her husband’s campaign for better school dinners will surely win the day.

Mrs Onions once tried to nurse in public at Downing Street, says the paper, and we wonder if that was the same day Oliver arrived to speak with Tony Blair, or on some other worthy occasion..?

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Posted: 12th, June 2008 | In: Celebrities, Jamie Oliver, Tabloids Comments (10) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink

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Lotus says:
August 5th, 2008 at 6:02 am

What Pip said.

To those who say breastfeeding is not for toddlers and older children:
Read. A. Book! The research speaks for itself.

Pip says:
August 5th, 2008 at 2:26 am

Breastfeeding *is* for toddlers or older - it’s only in our warped western society that breasts have become sexual and breastfeeding is discouraged. In traditional societies, breastfeeding occurs at least to toddlerhood and women often wore no coverings on their breasts because they were *not* sexual. Our society is so sad when giving formula in a bottle to a newborn is seen as okay, despite formula being proven to lead to obesity, diabetes and a damaged gut, among other things. Yet it’s not okay to give a three year old milk from his or her own mother, as nature intends. The World Health Organisation says that all children should be breastfed for a *minimum* of two years and that formula should be an absolute last resort if you can’t get donated milk. People are way too ready to compromise their childrens health! I felt so bad when I realised the WHO recommendations and my son had weaned at only one year. If I had my time over I’d feed to at least two or three minimum. I can’t understand people who are so willing to buy into society’s brainwashing - stop being sheep, people!

Mic says:
June 13th, 2008 at 1:30 pm

yvonne,

What is the important health issue to which you refer?

Are you advocating the extension of breastfeeding until kids are eight?

I see your point regarding the commercially driven attitude that kids should eb forced into adulthodd without having had a proper childhood, but that has little bearing on the content of this article. Breastfeeding is for babies, not toddlers or older.

yvonne insh says:
June 13th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

irresponsible bad press about an important health issue

do commentators feel as repulsed by celebs brandishing their nudity, by children suffering from obesity, rotten teeth, asthma and other health anomalies associated wih formula and not breastfeeding? every day we see images of children involved in activities that are gross…….and non-nutritive, dressed,or i should say un dressed engaged in fun? activities bordering on child pornography and nobody is repulsed!………………

coolandcalm says:
June 12th, 2008 at 5:48 pm

There was a documentary on a couple of years ago and the eldest daughter was EIGHT. She was precocious beyond precocious and she had a lisp…. ‘I like brwest milk and I’m going to keep drinking it fowever……’ she kept saying as she dragged the mothers top up and latched on whenever. truly gross. Child abuse IMO.