March 11, 2016
Pump, Baby, Pump: Bristol to Hand Over Breast Milk for Baby Daddy Visits
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If Sarah Palin's failed 2008 watch cry was "drill, baby, drill," a decision this week by an Alaska judge might have Bristol saying 'pump, baby, pump!"
It was a good day in court for medal of honor-winner Dakota Meyer, who was granted joint physical and legal custody of Sailor Grace, his daughter by mother Bristol Palin. A decision by Judge Herman G. Walker Jr. deemed that it was in the best interests of the tot to split time between mother and father. The baby will remain in Alaska, and Meyer will be granted custody for four back-to-back days twice monthly.
Palin, who is breastfeeding, argued against Meyer being granted overnight visits as it would interfere with the baby's feeding schedule, however, Judge Walker was unconvinced.
"The court finds it in the best interests of the child that overnight visitation [with the father] occur," said court papers obtained by People. "Mother is to provide father with an adequate supply of milk or formula for overnight visitation."
This week's decision ends a short, but ugly battle with the Palins for Meyer. When asking for child support from the "Dancing with the Stars" alum, a spokesman mother Sarah called Meyer's military service into question.
"My values are such that a real American hero doesn't ask for child support," David Martin, a rep for Palin said.
Bristol's mother, failed GOP vice-presidential candidate and fired Fox New pundit Sarah Palin told Entertainment Tonight that Meyer is trying to "save face."
"For many months we have been trying to reach out to Dakota Meyers [sic] and he has wanted nothing to do with either Bristol's pregnancy or the baby," Palin told ET.
Palin and Myer were engaged in March 2015 but the whirlwind romance ended in May, when one week before their wedding, Palin broke off the engagement. In June, Palin revealed she was pregnant, but never said who the father was.
Dakota Meyer is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and the War in Afghanistan. He is known for being awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Ganjgal on September 8, 2009, in Kunar Province, Afghanistan. Meyer is the second youngest living Medal of Honor recipient, the third living recipient for either Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom - Afghanistan[2] and the first living Marine in 38 years to be so honored.