Dan Bucatinsky: More Than I Can Chew
Baby born 15x's over legal limit
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There are few greater causes for celebration than a brand new baby, but one Polish mother started her celebrating a bit early, showing up at the delivery room with a blood alcohol level of 0.12, which would be the equivalent of drinking an entire bottle of wine.
At birth, the baby's blood alcohol level was 0.29, a level she should not even be close to attaining until well into her college years. The drunk mother could face up to five years in prison because of the celebration (or self-medication, whichever the case might be) for child endangerment.
I've known several people who drank before they even knew they were pregnant and the guilt over possibly harming the development of fetus they didn't realize was there was crushing. I can't imagine purposely getting drunk knowing full well that the baby is partaking everything you are.
Doctors say so far the baby appears fine and I hope for the child's sake she suffers no ill effects from her mother's poor judgment.
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ReaderComments (Page 5 of 12)
6-11-2008 @ 9:28PM
Alyssa said...The issue is not whether the baby is human. It obviously is. The issue with abortion has always been that for the baby to have full human rights equal to its mother, that mother loses all choice over her health, body, and lifestyle, which would necessarily downgrade her rights to secondary. She is a slave to the baby she may or may not have chosen to have. Our courts have determined that a baby in its first trimester will not have rights equal to its mother. After that trimester the baby's rights are equal unless the baby's very existence is an imminent threat to the life of the mother. And as a woman, I am thankful for that choice, whether I ever have to make it or not.
6-11-2008 @ 9:18PM
I am Mick Jagger said...This is digusting! Why would that mother endanger her baby like that?
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6-11-2008 @ 9:22PM
JAY LEONARD said...NASTY, NASTY, NASTY. The only other question I have is if Mommy is Breast-Feeding, which side is REGULAZR and which side is LITE?
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6-11-2008 @ 9:23PM
wecareagain said...Abortion its another issue, I don't believe in it, but that's me. Not sure where that comment came from, but as far as the issues at hand go. A comment about being for or against abortion then caring for these children sounds like priorties are turned around. How many unwanted children have you cared for, or abused, or babies born under the influence of drugs or achohol?
I have cared for many and these children have it hard. I have seen some born to be vegetables for the rest of their lives, that is really hard to see.
But then again as they say if your not part of the solution, your part of the problem.
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6-11-2008 @ 10:54PM
Roxy said...Many of the parents you are talking about- those giving birth to numerous drug and alcohol affected babies are not the ones having abortions. Many abortions are chosen by women, not because the child would have disabilities( not that that makes it okay), but by women who did not take the responsibility to prevent pregnancy. It is used as a fix to irresponsible behavior.
6-11-2008 @ 9:32PM
Mother Goose said...It grieves me to see that people actually suggest that a "vegetable" child would be better killed before it was born. While one of my children certainly isn't a "vegetable" (what a terrible thing to call anyone OR anything besides a cucumber) he is disabled. And I cannot begin to express the joy and the hope he has brought to our family and his six siblings, especially since his father, my husband of twenty years was killed in a tragic accident last year. ANY life is precious. I cannot fathom putting a value on anyone's quality of life---EVERY life serves a purpose.
I'm all for freedom of choice.
Choose not to get pregnant. It IS an option--oh and spare me the "what about rape" scenario. My reply to that is simply--how does a horrific wrong---rape, make an equally horrific crime--murder palatable? I don't get it.
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6-11-2008 @ 9:52PM
wecareagain said...I believe all children are precious or I wouldn't put myself out for heartache by getting attached to them just to have them returned to the pathetic excuse for parents most of these children have.
I was trying to get the point across that we need to worry about the children we have here on earth and what we can do to protect them before we can really consume ourselves in correcting abortion.
Unfortunately many of these parents are repeat offenders when it comes to having children with alchohol and drugs in their systems.
I don't believe in abortion, never have! I know of a lady who has had 13 children and still producing all in foster homes, when as a society should we be able to say enough is enough. Not all of them made a one time mistake and want to do better, many just plain don't care.
I'm sorry the term vegetable offended you, I understand how it would, but unfortunately they still use that term in paperwork describing these children. They need to use differant degrees of disabilties, but often times don't. I was offended when I had a miscarriage after a wreck and they called it a spontanious abortion instead of a miscarraige.
Bottom line the laws need changed and no one person can do it. These people give parents a bad name.
6-11-2008 @ 9:41PM
huriya said...WHY IS THE BABY STILL WIT HER! they should take her away!
thts dangerous!
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6-11-2008 @ 9:43PM
redcntrygal said...I was once pregnant and i didnt know it for the first to mths and i drank and smoked, once i knew i was totally done with it all and felt extremely guilty for any damage that i may have caused. I would have a small glass of wine on occassion but all i drank was water, milk, and vitamin drinks. How selfish could a mother be to drink so much at a time and in her last month. Shame on her and i hope that she gets jail time and i dont understand how a mother could not feel any remorse till after the fact when the law steps in.
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6-11-2008 @ 9:46PM
christian said...dont get me wrong im not siding with the mother but everyone makes mistakes. I think she should be put in rehab have the baby taken away for one year
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6-11-2008 @ 9:51PM
christian said...dont get me wrong im not siding with the mother but everyone makes mistakes. I think she should be put in rehab have the baby taken away for one year
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6-11-2008 @ 9:48PM
Larry said...LOL THATS REALLY FUNNY^_^
but i do feel bad for the baby........LOL
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6-11-2008 @ 9:49PM
jasmine said...I just have one question. Why is it that this woman is being prosecuted for child endangerment for drinking while pregnant (as she SHOULD be), yet we allow women across the country everyday to murder their unborn children and call it freedom of choice?
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6-11-2008 @ 9:49PM
concerned of faith said...what the mother did may be what her dr told her to do today you hear it is fine to drink wine while pregnant maybe she did drink a little too much but for you to judge her in gods yes then swear GD in the same sentence kinda puts you on mound doesnt it
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6-11-2008 @ 9:51PM
jadegreen said...These are some very sick comments here. Grow up people and stop being ruled by the 'authorities' that surround you! Stop believing every little thing you read (that is why you are here)! Fear keeps you small. Good thing for those who are in power. Stop judging. All bodies are different. I was so high after birth from the medications administered and so was my baby. A bottle of wine the night before would have probably been healthier for both of us! Sheesh! What would that be.............a whole 3 glasses? oh my!
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6-11-2008 @ 9:53PM
Donna said...Uh, Hello?? The mother is Polish. 'Nuff said.
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6-13-2008 @ 7:40AM
sarah said...this is outragous, and people wonder why childern and youht get involved in there lives. if people would think before they act we would not need these agencies. it still the same question "if you have to take a test for a drivers license why not a test for parenting". cause probably have the house and senate would fail.
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6-11-2008 @ 9:56PM
Mary said...I think that the baby should be taken away from this mother. This shows that she is not a responsible mother. Would you trust her with your baby? She needs to be held responsible for drinking while pregnant, some jail time ,fined,and treated like all people who get caught drunk! That poor baby should go to a family that is responsible.
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6-11-2008 @ 9:58PM
Tina said...I love how everyone is so angry, so incensed, and calling for this
mother's prosecution and the baby's removal. However in America we don't bat an eye when a woman has an abortion, which is knowingly
killing an unborn baby. Do only the babies that the mother decides she will keep deserve protection in the womb? Can the mother's who plan to abort drink and take drugs, and be free from worry about prosecution?
All babies deserve life.
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8-19-2008 @ 1:27AM
Just me said...Tina, Define life. Legal abortion is for babies not wanted. (Think about that.) What kind of life will an unwanted baby have. Adoption? Please. I have seen many, many, way too many, adopted children abused. I worked in "the system." The DNA is the same. Adoption does not change that. No, not ALL....almost nothing is absolute. There are successful situation...I have seen them, too. There are no crystal balls. It is all about the luck of the draw for the baby and the RISK. An aborted fetus often not only protects the unwanted baby, but also maybe older siblings, a marriage, a career of a mother who must work to support her other children.....There are lots of possibilities. Bottom line, this is a baby not wanted! None of us can compare OUR situation or what WE would do! As mortals, we live by the "law of the land." God will judge the morality of our actions. Just my opinion based on many years of experience working with people in crisis. Please put some of your thoughts to work. Go rock babies in a NeoNatal unit, volunteer at a shelter for abused and neglected children, including those children that are mistreated by foster and adoptive parents and those that have been in upteen foster homes and only want "to go home" to their birth parents. Experience the bigger picture. ....jumping off my soap box now....goodnight.