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> On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 03:21:27 -0600 Ronn Blankenship
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >So I'm going to have to figure out some other way to get the time
> > toread _Kiln People_. :)
> > > Julia
>
> > BTW, when I wrote "I suspect even I can point out the flaw in that
> > last
> > suggestion," it was because I was aware of the situation (though
> > perhaps
> > not all of the excruciating details given above ;-) ) from Julia's
> > earlier messages on the topic.
> > -- Ronn! :)
> -
>
> Note that 1) i'm male, and 2) i have no kids, so i don't know anything,
> but wouldn't it be possible to read while breast-feeding? Or is it
> somehow more active on the mother's part than just letting the kid take
> their nourishment?
It's possible to read, it's just very difficult to hold the book with
both hands while doing so, which is what would be required for the
hardcover copy of _Kiln People_. I've been reading paperbacks during
feedings on and off for most of Sam's life. (Including the Sharyn
McCrumb novel I finished earlier this week, and _The Coalwood Way_,
which is a sequel to _October Sky_.) So I can read, I just can't read
the hardcover, or even most trade paperbacks, while I'm feeding Sam.
Now, if he weren't so big and I had a "breastfeeding pillow" to rest him
on, the hardcover might be doable, but he *is* so big, and I don't have
the "breastfeeding pillow", so it's not.
Julia
