Drunk Woman Arrested for Breast Feeding Baby
If you breast feed your kid and your drunk, is that like serving them booze?
Police responding to a domestic disturbance arrived at Stacey Anvarinia's home to find the mother breast-feeding her 6-week-old baby in front of them. And she was drunk, they said.Mom Arrested for Breast-Feeding Drunk Sets Off Heated Debate [Fox News]
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 breast-feeding, alcohol — and privacy.
Since Anvarinia's arrest, blogs have been abuzz with comments questioning whether breast-feeding mothers could risk criminal charges if they drink even modest amounts. Authorities insist police were right to make the arrest, even if the mother had not been breast-feeding, out of concern for the child's welfare.
"Since when is breast-feeding while drunk a crime?" said Dr. Amy Tuteur, a retired obstetrician and gynecologist in Boston who has been following the case on her Web site, the Skeptical OB.
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Breast feeding while drunk is a crime because you're giving alcohol to that infant. Shouldn't an OB freaking know that. What an ass.
I heard from an expert at La Leche League that even when a mother is drunk - a harmful amount of alcohol does not reach the nursing baby. If they had given the baby a blood test, they would have found this mother did no harm to her child. This mother should have been warned, not prosecuted.
What a selfish boob - everyone knows that what you consume shows in breastmilk - be it toxins, or chemicals, vitimins, or booze as we have it here. In any event, caring for children requires attention and while impaired you cannot drive a car, fly a plane, so why should the life of an infant or child in a parents care be any different - hoping she was not smoking at the same time that would be insult to injury inflicted on a child
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