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Moms on Duty: 10 Active Duty Soldiers Pose for Photo While Breastfeeding Their Babies in Full Uniform
Soldiers from El Paso, Texas, breastfeeding in uniform
Tara Ruby Photography
Inspired by the creation of a nursing room at the Army post of Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, one former member of the Air Force brought a group of active duty mothers together to create an unforgettable photo.
Tara Ruby, an El Paso photographer who served from 1997 to 2001, told CNN that she offered up her skills when she heard the special new room for breastfeeding soldiers was lacking decor.
The room, which features chairs and a refrigerator for storing milk, among other things, is something Ruby lacked while juggling new motherhood and her service, according to CNN.
"I thought it was be nice to offer some photographs as an additional show of support," Ruby said. "Seeing a picture like that helps mothers understand they can be an active soldier and provide support to their children."
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The shoot, which, an Army spokesman told CNN, was approved by the Fort Bliss Public Affairs and Garrison Command, involved 10 active duty soldiers who Ruby found through a Fort Bliss motherhood support group, Fort Bliss P3T Program.
In the image, the women breastfed their children while wearing Army uniforms. Currently, no policy exists preventing women from nursing in full uniform as long as "professional standards" are maintained, reported CNN.
"I think it's great the Army is supporting active duty mothers," Ruby told CNN. "Sometimes, you hit a point in your military career where you have to choose between being a soldier and a mother, and a photo like this helps mothers so they don't have to choose."
Ruby initially shared the image on her Facebook page earlier this week, but wrote that it was taken down overnight.
"I posted this on here last night at 11:59pm. It has since disappeared from my feed and my wall. So we are posting this here again," she wrote on Friday.
The image has since been reposted and has garnered over 6,000 shares.
Photo of female soldiers breastfeeding in uniform goes viral
A photo of ten female soldiers breastfeeding their children went viral over the weekend.
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There are ten of them, dressed head to toe in camouflage, each holding a baby in their arms.
They are female soldiers, and a photo of them breastfeeding their children in uniform has gone viral.
The photo, taken by Tara Ruby, a former member of the Air Force, was created to serve as decoration in a new breastfeeding room at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas.
"I thought it was be nice to offer some photographs as an additional show of support," Ruby, now a photographer, told CNN. "Seeing a picture like that helps mothers understand they can be an active soldier and provide support to their children."
Ruby, who served in the Air Force from 1997 to 2001, said no such room was available to her when she was in the military. Instead, she used empty offices and bathrooms to pump after her first son was born.
She was so inspired by the nursing room, she came up with the idea for the photo shoot.
Ruby posted the now-viral photo to her Facebook page, and received more than 8,000 shares, garnering praise from mothers, former soldiers and supporters. She also posted it to her Instagram account.
“I just left active duty after having my baby,” one mother commented. “This is truly beautiful.”
“This is a beautiful way to show how much women give of themselves to country and family,” another commenter said.
Ruby worked with Fort Bliss Public Affairs and Garrison command to get the shoot approved, then sought models through a Fort Bliss support group for mothers.
“I think it's great the Army is supporting active duty mothers," Ruby said. "Sometimes, you hit a point in your military career where you have to choose between being a soldier and a mother, and a photo like this helps mothers so they don't have to choose.”
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They are female soldiers, and a photo of them breastfeeding their children in uniform has gone viral.
The photo, taken by Tara Ruby, a former member of the Air Force, was created to serve as decoration in a new breastfeeding room at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas.
"I thought it was be nice to offer some photographs as an additional show of support," Ruby, now a photographer, told CNN. "Seeing a picture like that helps mothers understand they can be an active soldier and provide support to their children."
Ruby, who served in the Air Force from 1997 to 2001, said no such room was available to her when she was in the military. Instead, she used empty offices and bathrooms to pump after her first son was born.
She was so inspired by the nursing room, she came up with the idea for the photo shoot.
Ruby posted the now-viral photo to her Facebook page, and received more than 8,000 shares, garnering praise from mothers, former soldiers and supporters. She also posted it to her Instagram account.
“This is a beautiful way to show how much women give of themselves to country and family,” another commenter said.
Ruby worked with Fort Bliss Public Affairs and Garrison command to get the shoot approved, then sought models through a Fort Bliss support group for mothers.
“I think it's great the Army is supporting active duty mothers," Ruby said. "Sometimes, you hit a point in your military career where you have to choose between being a soldier and a mother, and a photo like this helps mothers so they don't have to choose.”
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Soldiers in uniform pose for photo to 'normalize breastfeeding'
Soldiers pose for photo breastfeeding their children
Soldiers pose for photo breastfeeding their children 01:27
Story highlights
- Photographer Tara Ruby offers to donate photos to Fort Bliss nursing room
- Active duty soldiers volunteer to pose for photo breastfeeding their children
(CNN)There
were no lactation rooms or dedicated spaces for breastfeeding mothers
when Tara Ruby was on active duty in the Air Force from 1997 to 2001.
After
her first son was born, Ruby remembers ducking into empty offices and
bathrooms -- anywhere she could find privacy for 20 to 30 minutes at a
time to pump.
That's why she was
thrilled to learn about a new nursing room in the headquarters of Fort
Bliss, the Army post in El Paso, Texas. It has comfortable chairs, a
refrigerator for storing milk and a sink -- small things that make a big
difference when you need to expel breast milk every few hours.
All
that was missing was a touch of decor on the bare walls. To make the
room more inviting, Ruby, now an El Paso photographer, offered her
services to donate pictures for the room.
Her vision: Portraits of uniformed soldiers breastfeeding their children.
"I
thought it was be nice to offer some photographs as an additional show
of support," she said. "Seeing a picture like that helps mothers
understand they can be an active soldier and provide support to their
children."
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The
shoot went off without a hitch, resulting in a photo that's drawing
praise for normalizing breastfeeding within the hypermasculine context
of the military.
Fort Bliss Public
Affairs and Garrison Command approved the shoot, an Army spokesman said.
Through the Fort Bliss support group for mothers (full name, Pregnancy and Postpartum Physical Training Program;
P3T for short) Ruby sought active duty soldiers to model in the photos.
She thought she might get two or three volunteers; 10 women showed up
for Thursday's shoot with their children, proudly wearing their boots
and camo.
"I think it's great the
Army is supporting active duty mothers," Ruby said. "Sometimes, you hit a
point in your military career where you have to choose between being a
soldier and a mother, and a photo like this helps mothers so they don't
have to choose. "
Ruby posted the photo
Thursday night on her Facebook business page. By Friday morning, for
reasons unknown to her, it had been removed from her page and from other
pages that had shared it. (Facebook did not immediately respond to a
request for comment.) She reposted it Friday morning, thanking everyone
involved for supporting her vision to #normalizebreastfeeding.
Moms stage 'nurse-in' to protest breastfeeding policy 01:07
"Through the guidance of my military friends, the Fort Bliss P3T Program and Breastfeeding in Combat Boots,
our Garrison command and our Public Affairs, we were able to show that
even our mommies in uniform can provide for their babies," she said.
"Breastfeeding their babies doesn't make them less of a soldier, I
believe it makes them a better one. Juggling the tasks and expectations
of a soldier, plus providing for their own in the best way they possibly
can, makes (these) ladies even stronger for it."
Within 24 hours the photo had been shared more than 4,000 times, generating hundreds of positive comments.
As one person said,
"Thank you Tara, Fort Bliss, everyone involved to make this possible
and an extra big thank you to theses ladies and babies who participated
to capture this photo. This is a beautiful way to show how much women
give of themselves to country and family."
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A
few commenters questioned the "professionalism" of the women for
breastfeeding in uniform. But Ruby and an Army spokesman said there is
no policy that prevents women from breastfeeding in uniform as long as
they "maintain professional standards."
Such
critiques miss the point, Ruby said. The Army stands by the women in
the picture and the idea it promotes. The creation of a nursing room
shows the Army is taking steps to implement policies demonstrating that
support, she said.
"Practically
speaking, it's a matter of retention," she said: "Mothers need support
so they don't have to choose between family and service."
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NEW YORK >> Shocking or no
big deal? A woman breastfeeding her 12-year-old son is the cover photo
of this week's Time magazine for a story on "attachment parenting," and
reactions ranged from applause to cringing to shrugs.
The photo showed Jamie Lynne
Grumet, 36, a stay-at-home mom in Los Angeles who says her mother
breastfed her until she was 9 years old. She told the magazine in an
interview that she's given up reasoning with strangers who see her son nursing and threaten "to call social services on me or that it's child molestation." "People have to realize this is
biologically normal," she said, adding, "The more people see it, the
more it'll become normal in our culture. That's what I'm hoping. I want
people to see it." Some questioned why the magazine
used the photo of Grumet, a slim blonde pretty enough to be a model, to
illustrate a story about a style of childrearing that's been around for
a generation. The issue includes a profile of the attachment parenting
guru, Dr. Bill Sears, who wrote one of the movement's bibles, "The Baby Book," 20 years ago. Mika Brzezisnki, co-host of
MSNBC's weekday morning program "Morning Joe," suggested on the air that
the cover was needlessly sensational: "I'll tell you why it bothers me —
because it's a profile of Bill Sears!" On Twitter, the cover inspired
X-rated jokes along with concerns that the child might be teased when
he's older. But on many message boards, there was debate about whether
it's OK to breastfeed beyond babyhood. Bobbi Miller, a mother of six who lives in Arkansas, expressed disapproval in a tweet and said in a phone
interview, "Even a cow knows when to wean their child." Of the cover,
she said: "Why would this even be out there? It's ludicrous. It's almost
on the verge of voyeurism." But Bettina Forbes, co-founder
of an organization called Best for Babes that promotes breastfeeding and
supports women who want to nurse their children beyond babyhood, said
she hopes the cover "will make mainstream America less squeamish" about
women breastfeeding children of any age. "It's high time we talk about
these things," she said. Reaction to the cover
underscored a cultural rift between traditional childrearing and what
some have deemed "extreme parenting." The attachment philosophy
encourages mothers to respond to their babies' every cry and form close
bonds with near-constant physical contact through "co-sleeping" (letting
them sleep in the bed with parents rather than in cribs) and
"baby-wearing" (carrying them on slings instead of pushing them in
strollers). Retail chains including Target,
Wal-Mart and Safeway did not immediately respond to requests for comment
on whether the magazine, which goes on sale Friday, would be displayed
in stores. Time Managing Editor Rick
Stengel said he had not heard of any retailers concerned about
displaying the cover. But he acknowledged that the image is
"provocative. We're posing an interesting question about a subject that
couldn't be more important — how we raise our children. People have all
kinds of mixed feelings about that."
Breastfeeding Photos Of Terran Echegoyen McCabe And Christina Luna, Military Moms In Uniform, Spark Controversy [UPDATE]
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There are a lot of things you are not allowed to do in military uniform -- including eating or talking on a cell phone while walking (these are okay while standing still), keeping your hands in your pockets, chewing gum, holding hands, kissing and hugging (except during homecomings and deployments) -- according to a list of 11 such restrictions on the website of Veterans United. Technically, service members are also expected to always have their right hand free so they may salute at any moment.
In an interview with the website of the "Today Show", Air National Guard member Terran Echegoyen McCabe, who is shown hiking her khaki t-shirt to nurse her 10-month-old twin daughters, said that the act of breastfeeding in uniform was not new -- she does it all the time, she said, “in our lobby, in my car, in the park.” What was new was the public nature of the photo, which was the point. "I'm proud to be wearing a uniform while breastfeeding. I'm proud of the photo and I hope it encourages other women to know they can breastfeed whether they're active duty, guard or civilian."
She and the other mom in the photo, Christina Luna, have been criticized and applauded since the photos started circulating online last week. “I breastfed and it didn’t matter where or when,” veteran Tish Karhoff wrote on the Mom2Mom website. “If any of my children were hungry I fed them, with my breast, but I didn’t take pictures of me doing it and I wasn’t trying to prove a point... There is a certain level of responsibilitiy that comes with wearing that uniform... Cover up if you are going to be partly naked in a military uniform out of respect for your country and uniform...”
On the same site, veteran Eric Hobard disagrees: “I salute them both, as soldiers and free American mothers,” he writes. “I’ve fought for people that I do not know, in countries that have nothing in common with me, and for reasons that our politicians can not justify. Considering this fact, I’d fight to defend the rights of these two Americans every day of the week.”
The attention has taken Mom2Mom by surprise, but they welcome it if it brings awareness and change. On their website they wrote: “We have done nothing wrong and we hope this will make changes to protect ALL women to breastfeed in public, in uniform or out.”
Will it?
Here’s a place to start: It wasn’t until the 1980s that it became the norm for women to remain in the military through and after their pregnancies and maternity uniforms were added to the line. Might it be time to create a regulation nursing-friendly t-shirt, and maybe a camo print drape to make it easier to breastfeed in uniform? Then the mothers who wear them could stop fighting battles that should have been won long ago.
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