Nikki wrote

> Apparently this baby is spending so much time in the car seat
> (sleeping there all night, and in it during the day for the
> convenience of caregivers) that she isn't growing.

Wow! Isn't this really close to inorganic FTT? The baby fails to grow,
even with adequate calorie intake,  because of inattention.
  I was born in Germany in 1956 and the orphanage I was in  (0 - 18
months) had a large number of infants die in the "post war period" --
(I would not consider 1956 post war) There were just too many babies
for the staff. Anyway, I remember being interviewed by a clinical
researcher [when I was a teenager].  Apparently, he was looking into
the "strengths" of the babies who survived.  I believe he concluded
there was something unusual about the surviving babies, that got them
more attention -- I had bright, red, curly hair as an infant. (That
interview was so many years ago, I had almost forgotten it.)
But red hair may not have been the entire story with me. I found out
several years later, that my birth mother would come and visit or take
me home. From a letter I found when my adoptive mother died, I learned
that my birth mother came back looking for me when I was about 2 years
old. The letter had been written to assure my adoptive parents that
she wasn't told anything about where I was.

I cannot comprehend just leaving a baby to itself all day (and night
in this baby's case). The lack of nurturing must devastate the psyche.
So very sad.
Marie Davis

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