This is a story about frogs and breastfeeding.
We have a fish pond in our backyard which is populated by a family a frogs. Well, it was until last night when there was a bit of a frog massacre.
One of my son's recent favorite activities to do with his friends has been to catch the frogs and move them into a wading pool, and then build them places to sit with rocks and sticks. This poor frog family had no idea what they were getting into when they chose our backyard as their home.
So last night we had some friends over for dinner. They have a preschooler and a toddler, and my son and the older child spent some time moving the frogs from the pond to the pool. Then the toddler fell into the pond, and in all the excitement the frogs in the wading pool were forgotten.
This morning my son and two other friends found the frogs dead in the pool. They buried them, and I know that my son feels awful about it.
There is one surviving frog in the pond, whom the kids had decided was the baby of the family.
One of his friends said, "Now the baby is going to die, too, because he won't be able to nurse!"
That's how you know when nursing is considered normal in a family, right?
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