BWI - Breastfeeding While Intoxicated

STAY HOME AND BREAST FEED! If you have to do it in public, try to find a less crowded area and COVER UP! It always looks so 3rd world or low class to be breast feeding in public for everyone to watch. I even had some stupid woman come in for a hair cut with her new baby and she parked the stroller right next to my chair. My salon is loud because of all the people and machines going and music and besides that there is hair flying everywhere and chemical processes going on and she put her baby in the middle of it all. To top it off she stops me in the middle of her hair cut (which she didn't even need) I think she just was nervous and had to get out of the house, so she picks up the baby and starts breast feeding him under the cape. It's not the breast feeding thing that got me because we are all women in the salon with kids so I can understand that part, but under my cape that I cut hair in all day and do perms and colors? HOW FILTHY FOR THE BABY! As soon as she left, everyone started up on how disgusting that was and what's wrong with her?

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Im wondering why the bartender even served this lady. Bartenders have a lot of liability... you think they would have thought this one through. Children don't belong in bars, especially an infant!!

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Sticking to what the article is about, it is extremly wrong for not only this mother to take her child to the bar, but to be drinking. Everything she is taking in, so is her child. Yes, the woman should be arrested. She is putting her child at risk. I don't see how anyone could be okay with putting their own flesh and blood in that situation.

On another note, for those of you who disagree with breast feeding in public, you obviously don't have children. Pumping is not always an easy thing to do. I have a 7 week old baby and when she first was born pumping was convienient, now that she is older and not sleeping all the time, pumping is not that easy. She has needs that need to be met. So saying, "just pump and take it with you" is easier said then done. A woman does not need to expose herself completly in order to breast feed her child. As a matter of fact, they make covers especially for public feedings and it's just as easy to use a blanket. I have not fed out in public becauase my child does take formula too, but yesterday I ran into a situation where I was in a hurry and left without the formula...it my child would have been hungry before I got home , I without a doubt would have breast fed her in public. Anyone who has a problem with it, does not need to look. How can you criticize a woman for feeding their child?

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For the morally indigant who think that breast feeding in public is wrong, let me ask you something. When you are hungry in public do you stop what ever you are doing to rush home to eat? Before you think that I am some 20 something with no clue about life let me inform you I am 47 and breast fed BOTH my children including ::gasps:: when we would go out to eat. Mind you yes I would do so discreetly for it would appear they were simply wrapped in a blanket sleeping. With all the chemicals in our foods it has been proven time and time again breast feeding is THE best way to feed our children. And for all you religious book thumpers you might want to review your teachings after all there was no other way to feed children during the time of Christ's birth BUT breast feeding.

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people can't arrest someone for breastfeeding this is stupid

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All of you who are whining that this lady's civil rights are being violated because you think she was arrested for breast feeding in public just don't get what this article is saying. Since you 'civil rights' whiners apparently see nothing wrong with this lady taking her 3 week old infant into a bar and then drinking heavily, and then feeding her baby a combination of alcohol and mother's milk, I can only assume that you all are regular drinkers yourselves. And what the heck does OPEC have to do with this article?! No. I agree with the author of this article. That woman deserved to be arrested and she also deserves to have her child taken away from her, at least while she goes through extensive counseling and maybe even a parenting class or two.

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There is ABSOLUTELY nothing wrong with nursing in public. It IS NOT illegal, nor should it be. She didn't get arrested for nursing. She was arrested for essentially feeding her baby alcohol.
For those of you prudes that think it's "wrong" to nurse in public, why? What's your justification? You have NONE. It's more than acceptable everywhere but in the US. Our country has turned a beautiful & natural thing...such as the human body...into something perverted.
When I was nursing my daughter, I nursed in public. I did cover myself up a little...not because I felt what I was doing was inappropriate, but because I get cold easy.
As for pumping & taking it with you. For moms that are lucky enough to EXCLUSIVELY nurse, that is a HORRIBLE idea. Whoever suggested that needs to get educated on breastfeeding. Some babies won't take a bottle & A LOT of the time, babies that get a tase of a bottle start refusing the breast because the bottle is easier to get the milk out of. So...HORRIBLE idea...horrible.
As for breastfeeding a baby in a BATHROOM? Are you crazy? I won't even change my child's diaper in a public bathroom. I've seen people snort cocaine off the changing table in the nicest of restaurants.

Bottom line:: If it was "wrong" to nurse in public AT ALL...It would be against the law. We make stupid @$$ laws in this country all the time. So, if this really is an offensive act, then it WOULD be illegal.

It's not. There's NOTHING wrong with it.
I'm a firm believer that everyone is entitled to an opinion, but this IS NOT a case that involves an "opinion". It is a FACT that breastfeeding is a natural act. That's no opinion.

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Why does AOL constantly and purposely mislead the readers with these sensational headlines........"Mother arrested for breast feeding"?????? Excuse me? Clearly she was not arrested for breast feeding. She was arrested (and rightly so) for abuse and neglect of a newborn.

No one in their right mind would bring a new baby (or any child) into a bar while they tie one on. She's a sick woman who doesn't deserve to have custody of this innocent child. So let me ask the obvious question re: your headline.........Isn't it conceivable that as many people would have read the story if it said, "Substance abusing mom arrested for bringing newborn while she spends hours at the local bar"???????

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To those who thought taking a baby to the public restroom to nurse it, was a good idea. Do you know how many germs there are from feces and urine floating around in the air of a public bathroom? I am an old granny and I don't even use the blow dryers in there.,,,its just unfiltered recirculated tainted bathroom waste. Talk about gross...imagine a baby breathing that stuff while eating. Here's a thought: why not take YOUR meal in the bathroom and let the child eat in the dining area.
And no, a bar is NOT a dining area.

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she was not arrested for breast feeding in public!!!!! she was arrested for injury to a child!!!!! how can someone think drinking or doing drugs will NOT affect the infant!!!! thyia is not an issue about breastfeeding in public BUT of the safety of the infant!!!!!!! there is NOT a thing wrong with breastfeeding in public BUT when it comes to the safety of the child there is a PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!

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It is not because of breast feeding in public, it is because of the drinking that went with the breast feeding.Doesn't anyone see this or are you all a bunch of ignorant people.

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She was arrested for feeding the baby, not for breastfeeding the baby. She had consumed multiple alcoholic drinks and mothers who breastfeed cannot contaminate their milk with anything harmful to the child's system. She was arrested because she got her child intoxicated.
The asrticle stated..."Police arrested Earley and she has been charged with risk of injury to a minor. The Department of Children and Families was contacted. ".
I also agree that she should never have taken the child into that bar/out drinking with her either. Even is she had not been stupid enough to drink & then feed the child, she had the baby in an adult's only establishment. That place is no place for a child of any age.

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Was the mother arrested for breastfeeding in public or for caring for an infant while intoxicated? Since alcohol passes into breast milk, would she have been arrested under the same circumstances if she were formula feeding the infant? I'm under the impression that it was the intoxication that got her arrested, not the feeding method.

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I think the bigger issue here is a mother drinking and feeding her baby. She oblivously doesn't care if the booze ends up in her breast milk. That is what she was arrested for and should had been.

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The article is NOT about breastfeeding in public, which I support, nothing could be more beautiful and natural. Trying to live in denial that humans are sexual creatures is neither moral nor sane. Nothing aids pedophiles more than the mystification of sex.

The mother here was arrested for endangering her child, first the alcohol in her blood gets into the milk and thus the child, second fights break out in bars making it an unsafe place to start with. Sadly this woman by her actions gives a picture of an alcoholic making the odds the baby will be one greater, the early exposure to alcohol only increases the likelihood.

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LISTEN IGNORANT PEOPLE. Any of you on this discussion who have raised ANY objections whatsoever to a woman breastfeeding her infant in public needs to do some serious research, and possibly attain professional help for your twisted analogies to it being gross or sexual.

Equating sex to breastfeeding is also quite sickening, not even in the same realm. I am truly amazed at the number of idiots I've just been exposed to. Do your research idiots and redeem yourselves. You idiots, I want you to go into a public restroom, attempt to get yourself comfortable enough to nurse in a stall...you idiots...while at the same time protecting yourself and the infant from all the microbes and germs in there. Understand the process of milk production, supply and demand, etc. Also the OVERWHELMING amount of data that has been compiled for generations proving the benefits of breastfeeding. Hey idiots, check out the World Health Organization's recommedation to breastfeed EXCLUSIVELY for the first 6 months of life, and for at least the first year. The American Academy of Pediatrics does the same. The only way to attain and maintain the milk supply and the nursing process, you have to nurse on demand approximately every 2 hours....to maintain that that requires nursing in public at times. I nursed and did it everywhere, and noone saw my breasts, didn't use that stupid blanket over the shoulder either, that just makes it OBVIOUS. You wouldn't even have realized I was nursing as you sat across from us. There are some twisted women who do get something out of hanging their breasts out there for all to see, but they are the minority of breastfeeding women, not the majority. The main portion of us are educated, mature, stable, discreet, clean, and unselfish mothers who wanted to give our babies what nature intended.

DO YOUR RESEARCH idiots. Then I'll apologize for calling you idiots.

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I think you all missed the point of the arrest. Not only was she endengering her child by walking around with the baby while heavily intoxicated, but alcohol comes out in breast milk, in other words, she was giving alcohol to a 3 week old baby. She did not get arrested for breastfeeding in public, she got arrested for feeding her child alcohol and placing her in danger.

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Breastfeeding has nothing to do with sex. Period. It has to do with nuriting an infant. Media, conservatives and religious fanatics made it about sex. The breast is meant as a food source for infants in humans as in animals. Is it obscene for a cows teats to be photographed or seen? no. But Man declared a woman's breast obscene, hence it is - in our society. To those that say it is gross, etc, in many societies it is not. They are left bare, they are left unbound and considered as non sexual as a man's chest. ANother pictorial on AOL this morning is a record breaking litter of puppies with photos of the mother feeding as many as she can.. is that gross and obscene? Take the sex out of the feeding of our young, they are two separate issues imposed by men and media.

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