>They were difficult to keep clean, and infants surely must have found
>them uncomfortable, but for almost 2000 years, pottery nursers
>(complete with pottery nipples) were used for feeding babies.

I suppose dying of gastroenteritis was a little "uncomfortable" :-(
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Anna (mummy to Emma, born 17th Jan 1995 and Alice, born 11th Sept 1996)
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