Posted on 03/28/2014 4:00:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A mother, who was thrown in jail and charged with endangering the welfare of a child after breastfeeding her baby while drinking, said she didn’t know she was possibly breaking the law.
“I did drink. I did breastfeed,” Tasha Adams told ABC News’ “20/20” in her first on-camera interview. “I didn’t know it was illegal. If I knew it was illegal, I wouldn’t have done it.”
Last week, Chuck Clawson, the deputy city attorney for Conway, Ark., dropped Adams’ child endangerment charge because there wasn’t enough evidence to prove she had one too many drinks to care for her child.
Tune in for the full story on ABC News' "20/20" on Friday, March 28 at 10 p.m. ET
The 28-year-old is a stay-at-home mother to her three children: 6-year-old Cal, 2-year-old Hyd, and 8-month-old Ana. Adams and her family live in Toad Suck, Ark., a small town where alcohol is banned. But unlike Toad Suck, Conway, Ark., is not a dry town.
After the funeral of a family friend, Adams and her parents stopped for dinner at Gusano’s Restaurant in Conway. Adams also brought her baby, Ana, because the 6-month-old was still nursing at the time.
“We had a pizza, and then we had a big old thing of spinach dip,” Adams said. “Then, I had a beer with that, and then I had another one later on after.”
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Adams said. “I wish they would’ve given me a Breathalyzer so it could be proven.”
Whoa, they arrest her without a giving her a Breathalyzer to check her alcohol level in her blood to see if she was actually endangering her child
I hope she sues the crap out of them...
Toad Suck Arkansas? The south has some unusual names for towns.
Yep. If she and her mom (I think in the story it said she called her mom to ask for advice?) were that outraged, even if the woman was slugging down Long Island Iced Teas -- they should have organized a little brigade of busybody church ladies and bullied the gal out of the restaurant. Let them keep the town pure from Toad Suckers if they want to try. Seriously. The government had and has zero place.
A pain in the ass waitress.
Bingo! Well said.
The waitress sure thought the child was somebody else's ward. Like I say, even if the woman was slugging down Long Island Iced Teas, as long as she wasn't driving -- and it doesn't look like she was -- those are the breaks. Some kids get some moms, some kids get others. Human kids have survived some real lulu moms (by the waitress' standards) over the millennia, and still managed to get along pretty well. God loves us all, even sinners.
Obviously she was drinking when she named them.
“I barley understood the story/sarc.”
That must make you hopping mad.
http://biologybrain-simonsays.blogspot.com/2008/12/alcohol-content-of-breast-milk.html
From the above:
Conclusion: The alcohol content in breast milk immediately after drinking is equivalent to a 0.0274 proof beverage. That's like mixing 1 oz of 80 proof vodka (one shot) with 2919 oz of mixer . By the way, 2919 oz is over 70 liters. Two hours after drinking one (strong) drink the alcohol has disappeared from the sample. Completely harmless to the nursing infant. Drinking about 3 drinks in 1.5 hours resulted in higher numbers, but still negligible amounts of alcohol would be transferred to the child. One hour after imbibing in 3 drinks, the milk was the equivalent of 0.07498 proof beverage. That would be like adding 1 oz of 80 proof vodka (one shot) to 1066 oz of mixer (1066 oz is over 26 liters). Two hours after imbibing in 3 drinks, the milk was 0.01258 proof. That would be like adding 1 oz of 80 proof vodka to 3179 oz of mixer (over almost 80 liters). So, even though an infant has much less body weight, any of these percentage of alcohol in breast milk is unlikely to adversely affect the baby. Bottoms up!It's just an anonymous Internet post by someone who calls herself a forensic toxicologist, but it reports hard numbers. It would be nice to see the same tests done on a large number of breastfeeding mothers by a reputable organization, but of course if those tests showed the same results, the organization would open itself to lawsuits from drinking mothers who bore children with birth defects.
Any actual scientific investigation would be preferable to the usual fear mongering.
Sorry, it should say "...drinking mothers whose children developed neurological problems."
She named them all with 3 letters, is that her limit?
My two pennies
Well played, Sir. Well played indeed.
I was wondering if this played a role: http://youtube.com/watch?v=lvGE5jqXSQ8&feature=kp
So all of these posts talking about how beer is helpful for breastfeeding ... the waitress might very well agree wholeheartedly. What she objected to was the mom drinking three or four Long Island Iced Teas and breastfeeding -- that is what the waitress claimed IN THE STORY that nobody read.
I still think calling the cops, getting government involved, was the wrong way to handle the situation. Nosy, busy-body waitress would have been more "right" to call her church-lady buddies than the cops.
You both knew who your father was. He was a man who loved your mother and MARRIED her.
You father didn't run out on you, your sibling or your mother. He's still looking out for you all, but from a ways away. You'll see him again someday. It will be joyous.
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Knowing all this makes a world of difference in my book!
“You’ll see him again someday. It will be joyous.”
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It will be joyous,thanks for your lovely post.
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When stories are excerpted (for whatever reason) I rarely click out to the other site to read the whole story. The news sites that bully and use litigation to force excerpting can kiss my butt. The waitress claim was not in the excerpt. The nursing mother's claim that she drank a couple of beers was in the excerpt. So from the portion of the story that was available to read in the Forum, beer was the relevant issue. But even if she was drinking lots of hard liquor, it takes time for that hard liquor to make it into the bloodstream and even longer to make it into the mammaries and lactual glands and even longer still for it to get into the milk. The already produced and packaged milk that the baby was drinking would have been perfectly fine.
The catholic hospital where I gave birth to all my children provided a new parent meal for both the mom and dad before leaving the hospital. It was served with two mini bottles of real champagne. This was in the 90’s.
The world is seriously getting both dumber and more fascist every day.
Beer is suppose to be good for breast feeding moms - Seriously.
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