If you thought staying home was the way to avoid being hassled for breastfeeding, watch out for BWI. That’s Breastfeeding While Intoxicated, and apparently it’s a crime, even when done in the privacy of your home. A North Dakota woman was jailed after cops were called to her house on a report of domestic violence, when she appeared drunk and she nursed her baby in front of them. Now the woman is in jail, facing up to five years in prison, and her nursing baby has been taken away from her.
Comments from one of the cops suggests that it wasn’t the drunkenness that got her arrested. It was the breastfeeding. Grand Forks Police Lt. Rahn Farder told the AP, "It is quite unusual for a mother to be breastfeeding her child as we are conducting an investigation, whether she was intoxicated or not." It actually sounds like good parenting in a very stressful circumstance. With cops bursting in and a man possibly having just beaten up the mother, the baby was probably screaming her head off, and there isn’t any better way I know to quiet and soothe an upset baby than breastfeeding.
While it’s probably not healthy for a nursing baby’s mother to be repeatedly intoxicated, there’s no evidence that breastfeeding during a single episode of drunkenness harms a baby at all, as a doctor blogging at Skeptical OB notes. On the other hand, the doctor says, feeding a baby a bottle while drunk actually might be harmful, because mixing formula in the wrong proportions could harm a baby. Yet all the details of the story suggest that the police would not have arrested her if she had been feeding the baby a bottle.
And of course separating a nursing baby from its mother is clearly harmful.
According to Salon, the cops didn’t do a blood alcohol test on either the mother or the baby.
What about the domestic violence that brought the cops to the house? The boyfriend who was likely the cause of the mom’s beat-up face was not charged. And people wonder why women don’t report domestic violence more often.
The mother has apparently pleaded guilty to the charges, which suggests she had a very bad lawyer. The case reeks. Where’s an ambulance-chaser when you need one? ACLU, somebody, sue the pants off that police department.
BTW: Love the Skeptical OB on this story and her point about Americans’ inability to assess relative risk (including her dig about the risk of putting kids in automobiles). She’s got some whiggy ideas about homebirth, though. I suspect she’s using bad data on homebirth safety—I look forward to checking into it.
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The Gods ALWASY get what they want immediately. Before the disfavored know it everything is over and what remains was the lie designed to keep them at bay while the important event was ocurring around them.
That is where we stand now. Any future of the Situation is purely positioning.
This event was to teach the "haves". The "have nots are entrenched in their positioning and suspectable to the Gods credibility tactics.
Much as with the celestial event which occured that day on Ocean Beach, they say when I die there will be some final clue to the people suggesting my importance. Perhaps a "Star of Bethlehem" type of event.
They say some children see a halo on my head. These are the children who have a chance to ascend.
The entire Situation was a way to offer subtle clues for the "haves", distration-based theater for the "have-nots". With this document I am the end-stage "catch-all", an attempt to help everyone understand. Unfortunately, the Gods have retained the priveledge of refusal, manifested in positioning.
It is the God's way to accomplish their goals RIGHT OFF THE BAT, leaving the disfavored to scramble for understanding only when it's all over.
This event was a teaching tool for the "haves", accomplished before the dawn of the 90s. Too many of the "have-nots" will never accept they did the wrong thing for so many years and therefore never learn from this critical event.
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The voice you hear in your head is the power of the Gods. It's a remote technology, like a computer, perhaps functioning on some frequency, and it can listen and talk to everyone in the universe simultaneously.
What the Gods taught the children was the truth:::God is everywhere, and this is what they meant. And as I will remind you:::If you want to go to heaven you have to be good.
Even the antient Gods don't have the ability to listen to people's thoughts themselves. They taugh we were all made in their image:::I expect they need this "Artificial Intelligence" they created to relay what people think.
It is a tool, and the Gods use their tools to test people with temptation:::It will role-play people in your life:::Parents, friends, spouses, and employers, all in an attempt to test people with temptation. Ironically, it does the very same thing to those people whom you think you're hearing, except in that individual's unique way:::We are all "managed" by the God's technology.
Sexy Parris.
Sexy Dale Fitzgerald.
Un-sexy Dr. Lisa.
Artist Formerly Known As Sexy.
Much of the degenerate behavior in the 80s, building on the clues that were the Holocaust and Watergate, was also a clue from the Gods to my generation:::
Don't trust. Be cynical. Despite gaining financially, distrust the white capitalistic filth whom the Gods sacrificed for this event for they are thieving garbage.
I was paying attention.
The Gods have created this sick, deranged enviornment to punish us.
We've ALL been here on Planet Earth before. Some are being punished more than others. Hitler IS running around down here on Earth.
Part of this deterioration is cloaked in the way society functions::::Two-parent working households, rushing around, constantly occupied.
Your children NEED TO SIT AND LISTEN TO THEIR THOUGHTS, FOR THIS IS WHEN THEY GODS COMMUNICATE THE TRUTH.
Some don't listen. Others only hear it in a dream.
You have to pay for what you've done wrong. The soomer you stop offending behavior the less you'll be punished.
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