I Want to Shake Jenelle Evans for Smoking While Breastfeeing

September 24, 2014

I can’t help but fear for little Kaiser for a variety of reasons. According to recent studies at the University of Rochester, in Rochester, New York, smoking and breastfeeding raises the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), and the stimulant nicotine (found in cigarettes) can make babies so jittery they need neurological workups. I imagine Jenelle coming in from a smoke break stinking of nicotine and…

Single mom Christine Coppa is the author of the Target Breakout Book, Rattled! (Broadway Books, 2009) and the founding blogger of glamour.com's acclaimed Storked! blog where she spilled it about navigating an unplanned pregnancy and single motherhood minus her son's father. You can also find her witty (and often controversial blogs) on parenting.com, babble.com and Nickmom.com A professional writer/editor, she's contributed to Glamour, Marie Claire (Australia), First for Women, In Touch, Parenting, Baby Talk, and Parents among other publications and notable websites. Her work has been buzzed about in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and on ABC's 20/20. Coppa and her son represented the Yoplait Kids brand in 2011. The Sunday London Times called her a writer "at the forefront of a wave of modern moms who are reinventing the parental publishing genre." Coppa lives in North Jersey with her son Jack Domenic, 6 who is currently campaigning for a Golden Retriever puppy.