Breast-feeding was not really “in” back in 1967. I decided to do it in 1969 with my first child but I felt like I was doing something very “radical” at the time. I didn’t know anyone else, even my hospital room-mate, who was doing it. Could this use of the word “nursing” be a bit of revisionism by Blake? I am not saying this to favor any theory that Anne was not his mother but just because I am skeptical of Blake’s using the term.
She didn’t actually say “Breast Feeding” she just “she got finished nursing” and the whole poop thing is troubling to me. If the baby was already three weeks old he had probably pooped a couple of dozen times by then. I raised three kids and I can tell you it didn’t take more than once to figure out what to do....