Woman pulled over for having baby in lap while driving -- and she explains why

EVERETT, Wash. -- A Washington State Patrol trooper pulled over a car Wednesday after a 911 caller reported a woman appeared to be driving on I-5 with a baby on her lap, unrestrained.

The trooper located the car heading northbound on I-5 and pulled it over on 41st Street in Everett.

When the trooper approached the car, he saw that the 1-year-old baby boy was, indeed, clinging to his mother in the driver's seat. She was breastfeeding him and had been during her highway drive, trooper Mark Francis said.

The driver, a 44-year-old mom from Mountlake Terrace, told the trooper that she had been stopped for the same reason before ... but added that "the baby just won't stop crying in the car otherwise," Francis said.

The trooper "gave her a long talk about why that's unsafe" and cited her for child restraint violation, Francis said.