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Rhonda Feder/Gregory Capps <[log in to unmask]>
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While I agree the jury probably had more than the snippets the media fed to
us, I would like to add that it is sometimes so very hard for a mother to
notice a baby is starving.

A very close friend of mine a baby shortly after my daughter was born.  Her
baby was failure to thrive due to severe milk and soy protein allergies
(formula fed) and GERD.  She born at 6 lbs 11 oz and at 2 1/2 months old
weighed less than 8 1/2 lbs.  The baby's mother truly could not see that her
daughter wasn't growing.  I saw them at least weekly and could see it and
finally persuaded my friend that the baby needed to get back to the doctor
for a weight check.  The baby ended up hospitalized and put on a
prescription formula and a ng tube for night feedings.  The point I am
making is that the mother only saw her baby and loved her -- she truly
couldn't see how small and skinny she was.  Maybe a bit of that happened to
Ms. Walrund.

I do wonder if any mother whose baby was failure to thrive for the reasons
of my friend's baby (assuming the outcome was like the Walrund baby) would
ever be prosecuted for not feeding her baby adequately.  The formula this
baby ended up on (and is still on at well past a year) is fairly new -- I
have no idea what this child would have survived on without it, as I am
quite certain the mother was not going to breastfeed, and donor milk would
likely need to be from a mother avoiding milk and soy proteins.  Hmmm.

Rhonda Feder
Elkins Park, PA
lawyer and lay counselor in training (almost through!)

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