Arkansas mom accused of feeding bourbon to teething baby
Lori Sheppard. (Union County Sheriff's Office)
Authorities say an Arkansas mother has been charged with child endangerment after giving her 10-month-old son bourbon in a bottle.
KATV-TV reports that 28-year-old Lori Sheppard told police she was trying to relieve her teething infant's pain.
Sheppard said she's already given him infant Tylenol and Motrin when her mother suggested she rub alcohol on his gums. Police say she later told investigators she put bourbon in the child's bottle.
The station reports that family members found the child unresponsive. The boy was flown to Arkansas Children's Hospital and was found to have a blood alcohol content of 0.19.
The boy and his two siblings were later put into the custody of the Department of Human Services.
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Her T-shirt pretty well sums it up....
Back when I was a kid, dipping a pacifier in bourbon, or brandy, was standard practice for teething pain. I mean, doctors told mothers to do it... I read it in a mother's advice booklet, from the 30s.
But, dipping a pacifier in bourbon once, and feeding it, in a bottle, to a baby are completely different things, and now, we know better, not to do it to begin with...
We had a little plastic teething thing, like a pretzel, that was filled with water-- you put it in the freezer and got it really cold. I gave that to Matthew!
We had a little plastic teething thing, like a pretzel, that was filled with water-- you put it in the freezer and got it really cold. That's what I gave my daughters when they were teething, and it helped for a while, but I had about 5 of those rings in the freezer at all times.
(has the time on your comments been wrong? Mine has been wrong all day)
Yes, they have...
We had 3-4 of them. There was always one available... Seems like. I put rubbing alcohol on ours and rinsed them in water. Well-rinsed!
Good thinking!!
Our parents and grandparents had common sense, they knew a bit of bourbon on the gums or pacifier would soothe. They knew enough not to turn a baby bottle into a large shot glass and damn near kill us. Common sense is what is missing these days.