What I see is some people making the assumption that the breastfeeding and the breastfeeding alone is what got her arrested, not being drunk off her ass and causing a domestic disturbance. Hell, I have relatives who've been hauled in, held, and put on probation for being drunken morons in their own home WITHOUT kids around. Add a kid to the mix, let alone a six week old baby, and police have a pretty low tolerance for drunken idiocy.
That's why I asked what the legal limit for being drunk at home is.
Who knows what really happened?
Who knows what really happened?
How long ago was it that people clicked in and realized "gripe water" was booze?
At one time breast feeding wasn't advised due to pollutuion in mother's milk causing birth defects and cancers. Therer are still many regions where it isn't advised.
Where does the silliness end?
What I see is some people making the assumption that the breastfeeding and the breastfeeding alone is what got her arrested, not being drunk off her ass and causing a domestic disturbance.
Hell, I have relatives who've been hauled in, held, and put on probation for being drunken morons in their own home WITHOUT kids around. Add a kid to the mix, let alone a six week old baby, and police have a pretty low tolerance for drunken idiocy.
My parents drank, my grandparents drank, yadda yadda yadda.... but they were responsible enough in how they did it that no one had to be called to make sure no one was being beaten to death.
As for the breastfeeding itself. I've had a beer or two while nursing.
It was one of the sure fire ways to get a cranky child to finally have a much needed diaper filling moment. And I'm sure it was just as safe for their system in that dose as any medicine I could have used to intervene and give them some relief.
But more than a beer... that's getting to the realm of making your kid flat out drunk. And while it might mean a nice quiet night for mom while babe sleeps, drugging kids is irresponsible. But, like anything that goes on with babies, the only time you're going to get busted for it is if someone notices or it becomes a problem.
As for 'who knows what happened', I think the police who are saying it was about much more than breastfeeding, and the mother who pleaded guilty to neglect, might have a clue as to what all was going on.
An incident like this is just a social agency using obscure reasoning to exert more control and have the bleeding hearts with no clue endorse it.
Ah ha...so it is a social agency making an assumption and exerting it's authority.They called the hospital to find out if it was safe and what to do, and the hospital asked that the baby be brought in.
Karrie. You don't see the link between breastfeeding advisories, pollution and the massive onslaught of breast cancer?
If women really want the pink ribbons to do some good. Start stuffing them into the gears of industry.
An incident like this is just a social agency using obscure reasoning to exert more control and have the bleeding hearts with no clue endorse it.
How close of attention did you pay to sugar or caffeine intake during that time?Sorry petros, but I simply ignored the sideline discussion. If you want to talk about why it's important for women to nurse, and to stick it to the powdered chemical industry that tries to tell women they know better than nature, by all means, have at it. It's just not pertinent to the discussion at hand.
I breastfed for 2 1/2 years straight. I never quit between pregnancies. I avoided formula like the plague. But, I also planned my partying so that
1) I was not drunk and responsible for trying to hold a fragile 6 week old baby.
2) I had pumped and stored so the baby could be fed 'clean' breast milk by someone who wasn't drunk.
3) I could pump and dump the booze laden milk.
There are safe ways to handle drinking and partying around your kids. And there are unsafe ways.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>CTV.ca | Arrest in drunken breastfeeding case starts debate
"BISMARCK, N.D. -- Police responding to a domestic disturbance arrived at Stacey Anvarinia's home to find the mother breastfeeding her six-week-old baby in front of them. And she was drunk, they said. Officers arrested the woman, who later pleaded guilty to child neglect and faces up to five years in prison. Now her case has touched off a debate among moms about breastfeeding, alcohol -- and privacy."
When this story first broke months ago Unf it said that she called on a domestic disturbance, but when the police showed up was attempting to breast feed and was so drunk she couldn't even get the baby to her chest properly. The police told her to stop since it's bad for the baby and bottle feed it instead, but she kept trying. They called the hospital to find out if it was safe and what to do, and the hospital asked that the baby be brought in.
I can't find that original article under the swamp of op-ed pieces about it.
How many people on here have read the articles about the death of two girls on the Yellow Quill reserve, and wished that someone would have known that the only person in charge of them was drunk? If these officers had left, and she had fallen asleep on the baby (as mothers are often warned can happen even with cold medicines, etc), or worse, it had died of alcohol poisoning like the baby in Russia, (Baby dies after breastfeeding on drunk mother’s milk / MosNews.com) (yes, it's an extreme, outside, and rare case, but you get my point)... then what would the public outcry be?
But what is harm? We do lots of things that harm us. The problem is the microscope we put ourselves under and the ridiculous height we set the bar. In the end, outside of serious abuse, children grow up and have kids of their own as we have done for thousands of years. Only in the last couple of decades, have we made a sport out of singling out poor behavior.
This young lady needs a mentor not a criminal record.