Re: [ECOLOG-L] Children in the field Re: [ECOLOG-L] Backpacking with an infant?

2012-04-10 Thread R Omalley
Wow... Just tuned in. Weird conversation. I took my breastfeeding 4-month-old to the Galapagos and to the Amazon 16 years ago, along with my 56-year-old (at the time) parents, after an unplanned C-section. The parents were definitively more trouble and at greater risk. The C-section was

[ECOLOG-L] Children in the field Re: [ECOLOG-L] Backpacking with an infant?

2012-04-09 Thread Wayne Tyson
Well said Lis. For what use the information might be, some young friends of ours do a lot of work in the field all over the world and they frequently take their children with them rather than consigning them to caregivers. They took their first-born son to Borneo at ten months. A few years