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At 10:28 AM 1/25/02, you wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > 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 Maybe if the members of the list contribute . . . <http://www.surprise.com/frame/index.cfm?i=228&c=289&d=1&f=16897> BTW, for us ignorant males, who sits on a "nursing stool": the mother or the baby? Or maybe the father, while he reads the book aloud to the mother . . . hint, hint ;-) -- Ronn! :) God bless America, Land that I love! Stand beside her, and guide her Thru the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam� God bless America! My home, sweet home. -- Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
