Mom Jailed for Breastfeeding While Drinking, Waitress Fired Over It

[The Straight Story]

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.

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.

http://news.yahoo.com/mom-jailed-breastfeeding-while-drinking-waitress-fired-over-164719447--abc-news-topstories.html

[Politicalboi]

1. Toad Suck Really!!!!

[Nay]

12. Good god. The jokes write themselves in this country, don't they??

[DisgustipatedinCA]

2. Toad Suck, Arkansas?

Did I read that correctly? What happens in Toad Suck stays...oh, screw it. I've got nothing.

[KamaAina]

3. Yes, Toad Suck.

Believe it or not, there was a Dick Morris-style incident there years ago. The perp was dubbed the "Toe Suck Fairy"!

[Lochloosa]

10. You can always attend Toad Suck Daze! Really...MC Hammer is playing this year

http://toadsuck.org/

If you go..get me a T-Shirt please....

[frylock]

15. funny that they have to hold it in Conway..

gate probably isn't as good in a dry county.

[KamaAina]

4. Could it have been at...

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Toad Suck isn't really a town...

even though it has a sign:



"It's where a ferry used to cross the Arkansas River from Faulkner County to Perry County," he begins. "Well, the story is that at the time of the ferry boat, there was tavern on the Perry County side of the river that was a local hangout for folks to go down and drink alcohol and do other things frowned upon by the local communities. Some church ladies from nearby would say, 'If you can't find so-and-so, go down to the tavern. He'll be sucking on a bottle so much he's swollen up like a toad.'

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2012/08/unlikely-history-toad-suck-arkansas/2863/

[geardaddy]

6. Who needs alcohol when you can suck toads? n/t

[Cal Carpenter]

13. I'm not *not* sucking toads...

[snooper2]

7. You know when you drink a bunch of beer and pee a lot

oh, never mind

[morningfog]

8. Total bullshit.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

9. that's rich...

coming from a relative and all.

sP

[morningfog]

16. Relative?

[ProdigalJunkMail]

19. sorry... misread your name

thought it was morningFROG... and you, know, toad... frog...

apparently I was having some 'fog' issues at the time.

sP

[Blue_In_AK]

11. Times have sure changed.

When my brother (who is now 57) was a baby and my mother had problems with her milk coming in, the doctors recommended that she drink beer to relax and also asserted that it would make her milk richer. She was a teetotaler so never took him up on the advice. Now they'd probably arrest the doctor.

[lumpy]

14. That is correct. You can read about beer for breastfeeding in old Mothering books.

[laundry_queen]

18. I was told that nearly 17 years ago.

That was when I had my first. I heard it again and again, actually, when I had babies #2, 3 and 4 (baby #4 just turned 7). I was lucky enough to never need that piece of advice to increase my milk supply and I actually actively avoided beer because when I *did* drink it, it was instant engorgement in my boobs. So some doctors, nurses and midwives still recommend it. I am in Canada, though, so not sure that makes any difference...I did drink while breastfeeding, but only a couple at the most. I can't imagine being arrested for it. Geez. Every breastfeeding mom I knew had a beer or 2, or a glass of wine at some point.

[dembotoz]

17. found it on mapquest

toad suck