When breastfeeding’s a bad idea
Look, I’m generally all for breastfeeding no matter what the circumstances. While smoking is an unhealthy habit with ill effects for both mother and child, I’d still say a mother who smokes should breastfeed. The benefits of breastmilk will counteract at least some of the negative effects of nicotine and possible second-hand smoke exposure. As for alcohol, I don’t really see moderate alcohol use as a problem. An occasional drink while nursing, especially after the first three months of an infant’s life, won’t have major effects on a baby. Less than 2% of the alcohol absorbed into the bloodstream makes its way into breastmilk, so if you time your drinks correctly there’s no need to completely abstain.
But cocaine? I draw the line at cocaine. A New York prostitute and mother was arrested during an undercover sting operation. Not only did she perform oral sex on two men in a car with her awake five-year-old and eight-week-old in the backseat, she used her baby as a drug prop. A drug prop you ask? What do you mean by that? She snorted cocaine off her son’s stomach while nursing him between tricks.
In case you missed it the first time, she snorted cocaine off of her eight-week-old son while breastfeeding him in between tricks.
Breastfeeding is amazing. The health benefits are incomparable. The bonding experience between mother and child can be positively blissful. But snorting drugs off your baby? Doesn’t that negate everything? I’m disgusted.
In addition to the prostitution charges the woman was booked for five counts of endangering the welfare of a child and one count of first degree reckless endangerment, a felony.
Read the full story at ABC.com.
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October 5th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
While alcohol doesn’t affect breastmilk, cocain most certainly does. That poor baby is lucky to be alive. Though if she couldn’t quit for nursing I doubt she abstained during the pregnancy.
So sad.
October 11th, 2007 at 6:14 am
[...] mom strung out on cocaine is certainly harming her kids. But when she is snorting it off her newborn’s stomach while breastfeeding - that goes far beyond harm. What was she thinking? Oh wait, she wasn’t. I may be a [...]