Because we at Guanabee have an endless fascination with most things boob-related (see: our extensive coverage of most politicians), we thought we’d let you know that a Brazilian woman held in a North Carolina jail due to an immigration violation is being kept from breastfeeding her two-month old baby:

Ezequiel Oliveira, who is helping care for the woman’s two children, said he spent hours at the jail Monday trying to get a breast pump to 29-year-old Danielle Ferreira. He said Ferreira’s baby, Samuel, is crying incessantly and keeps spitting up baby formula.

This news had us crying gently into today’s seventh shot of tequila. Who will think of the babies? And the breasts?:

Oliveira, who is Ferreira’s pastor and also from Brazil, said he saw her Sunday and she complained of a fever and soreness in her breasts because she hasn’t been allowed to express milk. He said Samuel doesn’t seem to feel well, has a rash and spits up every time he drinks formula.

Jan Ellen Brown, a Charlotte lactation consultant, said it’s not good for a mother or baby when nursing stops abruptly. She said breast milk is best for infants and an infant who has been nursing for two months could have a reaction to formula or trouble drinking from a bottle. Mothers who stop nursing without weaning are in a lot of pain and are susceptible to breast infection.

Sad face. And sad boobies. Since we definitely plan on getting arrested sometime in the future, this is another reason for us not to have a baby.

Jail won’t let mother pump milk [The Charlotte Observer]