{"id":219941,"date":"2020-03-11T12:45:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T17:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=219941"},"modified":"2020-03-10T23:45:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T04:45:52","slug":"professor-welcomes-student-newborn-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/professor-welcomes-student-newborn-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor welcomes student and newborn back to class in an amazing way"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A student from Lander University in South Carolina is sharing the heartwarming story of how her professor not only accepted that her newborn baby would be present during class, but insisted<\/em> on it, even holding the baby so the new mom could take notes.<\/p>\n

Oregon Right to Life shared the story of Sarah Thompson on their Instagram page<\/a> with a photo of Dr. Josie Ryan holding Thompson’s son Isaiah. “She knows I worked and continued school at USC while pregnant this past semester,” Thompson wrote of Ryan. “I started her class the week before I had my son in August and started attending her class again the week after I had him. She knew I’d be overwhelmed so literally begged me to bring Isaiah to class and even showed me where the breastfeeding room in the health center was at Lander University.”<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is my Math professor Dr. Josie Ryan with my son; she\u2019s amazing. She knows I worked and continued school at USC while pregnant this past semester. I started her class the week before I had my son in August and started attending her class again the week after I had him. She knew I\u2019d be overwhelmed so literally begged me to bring Isaiah to class and even showed me where the breastfeeding room in the health center was at Lander University. It\u2019s so reassuring to know there are professors out there like this. Not only is she an amazing person, she\u2019s also one of the best math professors I\u2019ve ever had. She\u2019s brilliant really, wacky and the best kind of nerdy.. the kind I can relate to lol. But hey! Maybe the world needs more of these teachers! Hopefully this post will encourage other educators or moms or pregnant\/working women who are students to ask for help. She\u2019s encouraged me constantly and I\u2019ve brought him to our Real Analysis class multiple times now. He\u2019ll cut the cheese and make the class giggle from time to time but we still get down to some serious math in there. I am in a perfect world when I am learning math in college with my baby right next to me or in my teachers arms. She taught like this; holding him the whole first class I brought him to.\u201d Credit: Sarah Thompson<\/a><\/p>\n

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