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I think this is outrageous.
Murder by Nursing? | RH Reality Check
Morphine is considered safe by the American Academy of Pediatrics. When I read the story and saw she slept the baby I thought she suffocated accidently.
Morphine Use During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding | Drugs.com
Stephanie Greene is being charged with murder. Her crime? Breastfeeding her newborn.
The unexpected death of a 5 ½ - week-old infant is a mind-numbing tragedy. Facing murder charges in the face of that death is an inconceivable horror. Yet this is happening to Stephanie Greene, 37, a woman currently facing homicide by child abuse charges.
Stephanie lives in Campobello, South Carolina. Prosecutors allege that Stephanie took so much prescription medication that her daughter Alexis died of a morphine overdose ingested via breast milk. The coroners report shows the cause of death as drug overdose, because the infant had an elevated blood level of morphine. The case is complicated, because there is no question that Stephanie takes a significant amount of prescription medication for physical ailments (i.e. fibromyalgia, chronic pain, high blood pressure) resulting from a car accident, including MS Contin (a drug that metabolizes as morphine).
Murder by Nursing? | RH Reality Check
Morphine is considered safe by the American Academy of Pediatrics. When I read the story and saw she slept the baby I thought she suffocated accidently.
Morphine Breastfeeding Warnings
Morphine is excreted into human milk in trace amounts. Adverse effects in the nursing infant are unlikely. Morphine is considered compatible with breast-feeding by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Morphine Use During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding | Drugs.com