Washington State Patrol Trooper Mark Francis said the woman was pulled over on northbound I-5 around 7 p.m.in Everett near the 41st Street exit after a 911 caller reported seeing a baby on the driver’s lap on the freeway.
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To his astonishment, on peering through the driver’s side window, he noticed that the woman was in fact breastfeeding a one-year-old baby behind the wheel.
The officer cited her for driving with an unrestrained child. After being ticketed, she put her baby back in his vehicle seat.
Calling her decision “inappropriate”, Oliphant told KOMO, “Her job is to keep the child safe, rather than making sure he’s happy while she’s driving down the road”.
He told the New York Daily News he had never seen anything quite like it. “When Trooper stops auto, he realizes mom is breast feeding the child”, Washington State Patrol tweeted.
The 44-year-old mom from Mountlake Terrace admitted to the trooper this wasn’t the first time she breastfed her 1-year-old son while driving and she’d been stopped before.
When the trooper approached the auto, he saw the woman breastfeeding the child.
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“You see people do insane things while they’re driving, like people smoking heroin”, Francis told The News.
