Does anyone here watch this show? If so, did you watch it tonight? I am still in tears about it, and I usually have a pretty hard stomach.
Without giving too much away, I feel that this episode was a good expression of why it is a little risky to breastfeed while laying down. Granted alcohol was involved, but as any new mother can tell you a baby is a lot of tiring work.
Man I can't stop shaking... going to exit stage right and calm down for a bit...
Nicole
[ March 03, 2005, 11:12 PM: Message edited by: BotaLadyG ]
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
I do watch the show - but it didn't affect me in the same way and obviously not for the same reason.
But their writers are good - one episode did hit me pretty hard.
-Trevor
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
It was a repeat tonight, so I watched "Law and Order: Trial by Jury" which, I must say, is wonderfully done. I enjoyed it.
But I do enjoy "Without a Trace".
The one that really got to me was the one about the girl who had her baby alone, with no help except from her (also teenaged) friend, who was looking up emergency delivery procedures online. Of course, I was yelling at the friend the whole time, "Call 911 NOW! Are you an idiot? Call 911! She won't stop you, and she'll thank you later! Don't you know what could happen?"
[ March 04, 2005, 12:37 AM: Message edited by: ketchupqueen ]
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Damn, I forgot that was on tonight - was Jerry Orbach in the episode?
-Trevor
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Yup.
Posted by RackhamsRazor (Member # 5254) on :
I watched it-quite sad i might add. It never occured to me that women might brestfeed while laying down...but she was kinda on top of the baby in the first place (the time when she wasnt drunk) and she looked like she was gonna crush the poor kid. Sad episode though Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I didn't notice that when I watched it. And I breastfeed lying down all the time; it's a wonderful break on my back and arms now that Ems is pushing 18 lbs., I can tell you! And when she was first born, I used to fall asleep while nursing her like that all the time. However, I wake when she so much as breathes different, even now that she's a room, a hall, and two doors away. (And we don't even have a baby monitor.) The alcohol was definitely the deciding factor there.
Of course, my grandma tells the story of my oldest uncle getting a hangover because she had celebrated his birth with too much alcohol; no one had told her not to.
[ March 04, 2005, 12:43 AM: Message edited by: ketchupqueen ]
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
All right -this is ridiculous. I breastfed my child: sitting, standing, lying down, walking and yes - lying down. *gasp* Even throughout the night, co-sleeping.
People drink - they lose control - bad things happen.
It IS NOT *emphasize NOT* the fault of breastfeeding.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
*points to post* Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
I'm pretty sure nobody faulted breast-feeding.
The mother doing it while heavily intoxicated, however...
-Trevor
Posted by Mrs.M (Member # 2943) on :
It looked to me like the drunk mother had the baby on her back and was leaning over and nursing and passed out on top of her. I didn't think she was lying down, but hunching over. Plus, they said she was depressed, so I assumed she was also taking anti-depressants, which I understand should not be mixed with alcohol.
I don't think they meant to imply anything negative about nursing at all.
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