In a message dated 7/2/01 10:30:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> I recently went to one of my supervisor's prenatal breastfeeding class
> where she always brings up the subject of how children in breastfeeding
> societies often nurse their dolls and asked how many in the room nursed
> their dolls when they were young. This time dads in the room started joking
> about nursing GI Joes.  My son actually nurses his plastic TRex skeleton or
> has me nurse it.  Somehow, during my pregnancy, I never envisioned that I
> would have plastic TRex teeth pressed into my areola while my son nursed on
> the other breast. Of his enormous plastic dinosaur collection, only TRex
> gets to nurse. My son is currently exploring the boundaries of which
> animals nurse and which do not.  It upsets him that reptiles and birds
> don't get to nurse.
>
> Susan Burger
>

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