Mother needing to breastfeed charged with contempt of court

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6. I had the same issue when my daughter was a baby.

She would not take a bottle.

But by 7 months, she was beginning to eat soft table food, crackers, and some baby food (though she was quite picky about it). I'd say that it was approx. 85% nursing at that age. If necessary, I probably could have left her with a babysitter for about 3 or 4 hours at a time.

I didn't go to the link so I don't know the particulars of this case, but if the mother could get the court to pay for a nearby babysitter, I don't see why she couldn't do jury duty. 'Nearby' as in someone close enough to go to during breaks, but not necessarily there at the courthouse... within perhaps a 15 minute walk or drive.

When I did jury duty years ago, I remember having quite a few reasonably long breaks -and- we rarely put in much more than 5 hours a day anyway. It was a statutory rape case that lasted 3 days. We'd typically begin at 9am, have an hour (or more) for lunch at about noontime, then another approximately 2 hours in the afternoon.

I'm not saying it'd be easy, and would hope the judge would carefully consider the difficulty involved (which he didn't appear to do in this case)... That said, hypothetically, if the judge allowed for childcare reimbursement, it'd be do-able (imho).