DayCare Owner Breastfed SOMEONE ELSE'S BABY

CrimsonTide4 · #1 06-03-2003, 02:48 PM

Daycare owner charged with breast-feeding someone else's baby
06/03/2003

Associated Press

STIGLER, Okla. - A woman was charged with breast-feeding someone else's baby at a daycare center without the parents' knowledge. KNOWLEDGE or not, that would have been one breastless woman when I finished with her.

Prosecutors charged Shannon Denney, 32, with outraging public decency and public morals, punishable by up to a year in jail and a $500 fine.

Denney, whose own child attended the daycare center, apparently decided to help out one day in late November or early December by breast-feeding a 3-month-old girl, authorities said.

"The baby was crying and they were feeding it a bottle and that didn't stop it," prosecutor Ron Boyer said.

The mother found out months later when a rumor circulated around the town of 2,500, he said.

"It got back to the mother," Boyer said. "The mother confronted the woman and asked her about it and she admitted that it happened."

After the alleged incident, Denney bought the daycare center, but she has since closed it. She did not immediately return a call Tuesday.

The state Department of Human Services, which licenses daycare centers, has no policy on breast-feeding someone else's child. I do -- don't breast feed mine.

"It's a commonsense sort of thing," department spokesman George Johnson said. "It's something that today you don't even think about."

Viruses can be transmitted through breast milk.

My Ced the Entertainer voice: I wish a mofo WOULD!!!

mu_agd · #2 06-03-2003, 03:40 PM

sorry to crash your boards... but this reminds me of the movie The Hand that Rocks the Cradle. Didn't Rebecca DeMorney start breast feeding the baby to try to turn it against the mother and steal the husband?

CrimsonTide4 · #3 06-03-2003, 03:46 PM

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Originally posted by mu_agd
sorry to crash your boards... but this reminds me of the movie The Hand that Rocks the Cradle. Didn't Rebecca DeMorney start breast feeding the baby to try to turn it against the mother and steal the husband?

You're not crashing.

Yeah she did do that. Sick heffa. She was twisted too.

12dn94dst · #4 06-03-2003, 03:47 PM

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Originally posted by mu_agd
sorry to crash your boards...

you're NOT crashing.

everyone is welcome to post/chat/mingle/network, etc.

just as long as you don't act up.

CrimsonTide4 · #5 06-03-2003, 03:48 PM

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Originally posted by 12dn94dst

just as long as you don't act up.

Like a Nazi

mu_agd · #6 06-03-2003, 03:49 PM

Thanks guys! I promise not to act up!

Peaches-n-Cream · #7 06-03-2003, 04:35 PM

Nursing another child is not that unusual. There were wet nurses until a few years ago. My mother's best friend from nursing school gave birth to a very sick baby who needed emergency surgery when he was born. He needed to be fed after surgery, but his mother couldn't so my mother offered to nurse him. She was still nursing my sister at the time. The hospital decided to use formula instead so it never happened. My mother's friend to this day remembers my mother's offer as the nicest thing that anyone has ever done for her. I guess it's a generational thing. My sister and I thought that was gross, but my mother and her friend thought that it was perfectly normal.

The problem is this woman didn't get the mother's consent. I don't know if there is anything wrong with this woman or not, but she shouldn't have nursed the baby without the permission of the mother.

The baby is now a healthy (and handsome) young man.

CrimsonTide4 · #8 06-03-2003, 04:40 PM

Cream, I see your point and I agree. As long as there is consent, it is all to the good, but there was no consent here.

There were wet nurses back in slavery too. My kids always tripped out when I explained this phenomenon to them.

Ideal08 · #9 06-03-2003, 04:41 PM

Dang, this type of thing makes you really think. Are all women's milk the same????? I mean, does it have DNA in it or something (something only the mother and child would have)? Or is it just plain old human milk?

Please remember, no question is stupid. Don't be tryin' to clown me on this. I just wanna know.

midwesterngirl · #10 06-03-2003, 04:49 PM

I have been a daycare Director for over 10 years.I have been approached by parents for many strange reasons,including one who asked if we would post bail for her.This is the craziest thing I have ever heard.I can't even imagine how I would react if a parent came and told me that she had just breast fed someone elses baby in my facility.I think they would probably be asked not to come back at the very least.

ZTAMiami · #11 06-03-2003, 05:20 PM

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Originally posted by Ideal08
Dang, this type of thing makes you really think. Are all women's milk the same????? I mean, does it have DNA in it or something (something only the mother and child would have)? Or is it just plain old human milk?

Please remember, no question is stupid. Don't be tryin' to clown me on this. I just wanna know.

It's ok. I've been doing a ton of reading since I'm due in September and any plain old human milk is better for a baby than formula. Of course if the woman from who the breast milk comes from is sick then she could pass this on to the baby. There are actually breastmilk banks that you can donate extra breastmilk to! Of course a woman breastfeeding a child not their own does sound weird but it might be our western thought.

Gyrl7 · #12 06-03-2003, 05:49 PM

Im sorry, but I would be outraged! No one feeds my lil Jaquan Rockehead but his MAMA!

I pray that their is not a day that comes where (when I do have kids) that something happens and I cannot give him my milk temporarily for any reason. If that is so, he will have to be taken to a doctor and put on formula because I don't want ANYONE else feeding my bookieboo, but me.

midwesterngirl · #13 06-03-2003, 06:16 PM

I took a look in the Kansas Licensing manual and indeed there are not any rules or regulations regarding breastfeeding someone elses child.Hopefully after this,they will put something in writing.I guess common sense really isn't that common.

ladygreek · #14 06-03-2003, 08:52 PM

The biggest issue I see in this is the lack of consent from the mother (as opposed to the woman acting as a wet nurse.) To have someone breast feed your baby and you don't know if they are a coffee drinker, chocolate eater, alcohol consumer, etc. is plain wrong. Not to mention not knowing if the woman had any communicable diseases, even a cold.

When people consent to a wet nurse they, I'm sure, are informed of all these things. And the wet nurse is informed as to whether the child has any allergies to things like chocolate, etc. It sounds like the daycare provider did not act out of malice but just plain ignorance.

smiley21 · #15 06-03-2003, 09:06 PM

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Originally posted by mu_agd
sorry to crash your boards... but this reminds me of the movie The Hand that Rocks the Cradle. Didn't Rebecca DeMorney start breast feeding the baby to try to turn it against the mother and steal the husband?

as soon as i saw the title of the thread, i thought 'hand that rocks the cradle'