Woman arrested for breastfeeding baby while drunk, charged with child abuse and neglect

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  Posted by opiniononly Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:16pm PDT

  And wouldn't be interesting if this mother was investigated by her hospital prior to discharge for concern about her lack appropriate parenting abilities? This ties in so closely to the other Shine blog about the mother in Washington DC. Sometimes the potential for child abuse actually can be detected while still in the hospital with your newborn.

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  Posted by mommaofsun Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:16pm PDT

  Wow. All i can say is I never did, for fear of hurting my kids. And yes, I do feel it is child abuse/neglect.

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  Posted by sassycyra Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:36pm PDT

  she's an idiot. too bad we can't castrate people like her before they reproduce, but now it's too late. that poor child!

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  Posted by Anna D Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:43pm PDT

  Wow umm I never did that at all I waited untill my daughter was done brestfeeding untill I had a drink at all just because of that reason!!! Wow some ppl should not be aloud to have kids at all!!!

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  Posted by None Wed Apr 29, 2009 2:00pm PDT

  Ok, is it so hard to freakin eat right for 9 months?! I honestly believe if you are pregnant, you should withhold from sex, alcohol, smoking, junk food, etc, the baby is taking all this in!! Don't you want it to be healthy? Sheesh, if you are going to be selfish, don't have one in the 1st place.

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  Posted by Certponte3 Wed Apr 29, 2009 2:03pm PDT

  Great post! I can remember maybe 3 times where i really wanted to go out and drink (for a social adult social evening-while i was breastfeeding) and I would pump and dump for at least 24 hours before letting my sons latch on and breastfeed. I would pump before and use that as a sumpliment. I actually would test taste it to make sure it taste the same as the pre drinking milk... I cant imagine though being drunk at the time and being able to HOLD the baby in a position to breastfeed! Breastfeeding is kinda ackward anyways and if i was drunk i personally wouldnt be cordinated enough. Drunk and breaskfeeding is child abuse.

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  Posted by Devyn B Wed Apr 29, 2009 2:55pm PDT

  A couple glasses of wine is one thing but blitzed is a whole other thing

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  Posted by MrsKlingonPasadena Wed Apr 29, 2009 3:11pm PDT

  It is too crazy to be fiction! Wow, how could any woman do that.

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  Posted by Doktor Eevol Wed Apr 29, 2009 3:27pm PDT

  Why do the bloggers on Shine consistently point out the rare, worst case scenario mothers and then try to make it into an issue about all of us? I wonder if we'll ever see any positive blog posts about women who do GREAT things, instead of pointing out the worst specimens of humanity all the time?

  And technically getting drunk and breastfeeding your baby is obviously child ABUSE not neglect. Neglect would be to simply allow your child to drink out of a container with an alcoholic substance in it while not stopping them, breastfeeding while drunk actually puts the container (in this case, the boob) into the child's mouth. So no, it's not neglect. But it is ABUSE.

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  Posted by Constance Wed Apr 29, 2009 3:31pm PDT

  Feeding an infant alcohol is child abuse. Since the alcohol a woman is drinking "goes directly into the breast milk", then a woman breastfeeding while drinking (whether it was a glass full or a barrel full) should be treated exactly the same as the kind of trash that puts alcohol in baby bottles. It's the SAME THING.

  If you're such an alcoholic that you can't abstain (or plan ahead like Certponte3)for a few lousy little months for the sake of your infant's health, then don't act shocked when people criticize your parenting abilities.

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