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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just because someone makes a philosophical, very scientific, very educated decision to withhold care from a premature baby because it may turn out to be disabled, because schlepping to a NICU 40 minutes away is a major hassle with a toddler still attached to boob, and because well, it's "her" preference, of which she is completely aware, does not make it any more deserving of my respect than a 15-year old meth addict who threw the baby in a trashcan to die.

I'm not interested in reasons of people who let their babies "pass peacefully" after birth. I don't care if they have blogs.

Sometimes this world can use a bit less navel-gazing, and a bit more connection to the immediate human drive to do everything to help the baby survive. [/quote]

I haven't had to make this decision. Years ago I found a blog by a woman who had had a premature baby, maybe Helen something? She loved her son dearly, fiercely, but said that I'd she knew back then what she knew know through her grim and ongoing experiences, she wonders what she would have done differently, maybe nothing differently. But she felt like the doctors really didn't lay out the long term, and she, a new mother, wasn't in a position to know what questions to ask. She said that the ongoing care for her now adult son, who I think would be classified as disabled, thought not severely, was an incredible lot of work. Without knowing a particular baby's prognosis, it's unfair to lump the heartbroken parents in with a "15 year old meth addict".

And this thread is officially waaaay off topic, which I have just contributed to.[/quote]

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