Wordless Wednesday: beautiful nursing toddler (guest post)

Thanks to Christine for sharing these beautiful, intimate professional portraits taken with her husband and their first child when their son was 17 months old in January 2004. Photographer: Kathleen Swisher. (You might remember Christine from her birth story posted here, home waterbirth of her 4th child with cord wrapped around his neck 4 times.)

And for good measure, in case you are wondering why on earth someone would nurse a toddler beyond a year of age:

Breastfeeding past infancy: fact sheet (from kellymom.com)