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I'm not in support of driving while breast-feeding, obviously. However, I don't think that she necessarily doesn't deserve her children. Sleep-deprived, working mothers with new babies and multiple children may not be thinking clearly and she did NOT dangle her baby over a balcony, she didn't get into an accident, and as far as I can tell as she wasn't cited her for reckless driving. She may have been driving safer than some idiots out there, for all I know. Someone just peeped in her window and called the police.

Yes, probably not the greatest thing, but every parent makes mistakes and poor decisions and if that was reason enough to be taken away, we'd all be adopted or orphans.

Allowing children to climb trees should be illegal too, definitely, and heaven forbid we allow any kind of risk. There was a time when car seats didn't exist and most people survived, even driving and breast-feeding. There is a great deal of difference between risk and actual harm. The child wasn't beaten, raped, or murdered - subjected to a greater sense of risk than commonly accepted - yes.
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Well, probably not the best idea in the world and while I would most likely choose the luxury of being late to wherever and nurse before getting into the car. I don't know her circumstances and maybe she didn't have that luxury. There is way too much pressure on people these days and being a working mom (probably deprived of sleep, especially with an infant) is extremely difficult. Some people have more family, more money, or more time to work with than others.

Statistics determine that a child safety seat is the safest place for a baby, but do those statistics take into account the accidents caused by a screaming baby distracting a parent or trying to sooth a baby while reaching behind you to a baby facing the back window? When they cry so hard they choke and you worry they might be more than just upset? Do they take into account how the persistent and frequent unanswered screaming of a baby affects their health and development?

Also, is it really safer to pull over to the side of the road and nurse? My family pulled over into the break-down lane and a truck slammed into them. One member died and the rest have had severe lifelong consequences. I would never, ever pull over on a highway unless it was an emergency.

It isn't always the dumb following of rules that is the best route of decision-making. Sometimes you have to make your own decisions and unless you're in that person's shoes it's pretty hard to try to judge them and things are usually a shade of grey.
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Organize them by color AND topic. I used book-covers made from watercolor paper. It turned out pretty cool and I didn't have to sacrifice my organization compulsion to have my rainbows. They make stick-on colored film for book-covering material too. :)
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