Mom arrested for drinking while breastfeeding

[lilles]

news.yahoo.com/mom-jailed-breastfeeding-while-drinking-waitress-fired-over-164719447--abc-news-topstories.html

I don't know if this was posted already. Discuss.

[halfpint]

Wooooooowwwwww.

Okay, but all that aside....TOAD SUCK? Only in Arkansas...

[dbsk8dance]

I keep hoping this is an onion article.

Someone in the comments says to look up Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Dumbass.

[cilantro]

Wow. People really think that breastmilk gets that tainted by a drink or two?

[Deleted]

Science! It's not really imprecise. biologybrain-simonsays.blogspot.ca/2008/12/alcohol-content-of-breast-milk.html

I'd find a way to sue someone. I don't know who or how... but even if it went nowhere, I'd love to publicize that you don't have to completely abstain from alcohol if you wish to breastfeed.

[halfpint]

I probably would go to jail in that instance...ultimately, not for breastfeeding my kid under the influence of a couple of cocktails, but for throatpunching that busybody waitress.

[biogirl21]

Wow. That is ridiculous. And the comments... I don't even know why I read the comments on articles like this.

[chickens987]

What.the.Fuck.

[cinco]

I think I found my hill to die on! I will drink my 2 beers, and you best not say a thing about it!

[h]

This is insane!

Though I suppose she could be lying about the "just two beers" thing. It's not like she is going to be like "yes, I did have 5 Long Island iced teas then nurse my infant." I wouldn't advocate for her arrest regardless--just putting it out there that none of us really knows which resident of the fine town of Toad Suck is telling the truth.

[imojoebunny]

WTF... Way to make criminals out of mothers. There are studies that suggest that very little alcohol passes to BF babies and that the impact is not identifiable. I remember one in particular some one posted here a while back. I have a real problem with this, because it puts a high, unproven burden on a mother, and is likely to dissuade people from BF. My son never took a bottle because he wouldn't, and BF for 15 months. Mostly, I didn't drink until he was in bed, but he never slept more than 2-3 hours until 11 months. You never knew exactly when he would wake up. The exstention of this is that you can't have a few drinks and care for a child, which is completely false. I feel like the "right" way to do things has been taken too far, to the "perfect" way, and the perfect way can suck a lot of joy out of parenting.

[water*drop]

Mar 26, 2014 13:37:43 GMT -5 cinco said:

I think I found my hill to die on! I will drink my 2 beers, and you best not say a thing about it!

This would make the best nurse-in ever.

[winecheery]

Oh man. I just hate people sometimes.

[simpsongal]

Legit WTF - they really need to cut the fear-mongering on this subject.

While we're on the subject, what's with the advice that an "occasional drink" is okay? The books generally suggest 1-2 per week. What's the difference if I have a drink every day, versus every few days? Does.not.compute.

[cjeanette]

This is nuts.

Also, there are still dry towns???

[halfpint]

I guess we can at least applaud her for not asking drunk mom to cover up while she nursed. #progressive

[undecidedowl]

OMG. Since when do you arrest people for "things that may be bad for their children's health but are not yet proven to be a problem." ARREST THE PIZZA BABY PARENTS!!!

The only reason I avoided drinking much while nursing was because I read a study that said babies may consume slightly less milk after a mother had been drinking and there was no.effing.way I was risking my sleep for DS to wake up hungry.

[mrssandro]

I thought beer was good for breast milk production.

[yellowbrkrd]

Mar 26, 2014 15:32:55 GMT -5 cjeanette said:

This is nuts.

Also, there are still dry towns???

Oh yes, the town I grew up in just started allowing alcohol to be served/sold. It was a BIG deal when two breweries opened there.

You also can't buy alcohol on Sundays where I live.

This story is insane. I have been to many brewpubs, had a beer or two and breastfed M while there. 

[mdana]

I am stuck on Toad Suck.

Also, I believe I will have a drink tonight in solidarity with this mom.

[liveintheville]

Hmm. I would drink a beer while breastfeeding. My OB and NP said that's a good time to do it because by the time it hit my blood stream the kid was done eating. And then it was out of my system by next feed with that timing.