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Hey--what you said about meconium! That it can be expelled into the amniotic fluid due to some sort of stress. I've heard that: I've heard that if they find meconium in a sample of amniotic fluid (during labor), that that is a good reason to do a Caesarian right then. Fetal distress.

Now, we have heard for the first time that the ribs may have been broken b/c she was beaten. Obviously if she was beaten, it was... brutal... so might that not have caused some change in the baby? Might that not have caused fetal distress? But the fact that the meconium was right where it should be argues AGAINST there having been fetal distress...?

Now I'm really confusing myself... Oh, well, I have to keep reminding myself how I FELL flat on my back during each of my pregnancies. (One time I tripped on a wet floor in a public building... the other time I stupidly ran into a flock of birds to make them fly away to impress my small child, and I slipped on mud. DUHHHHHHHH!) And when I would ask the doctor about these unfortunate incidents, he told me, the baby is VERY well-protected in there. Neither incident caused any problems.

SO I guess she could suffer a fair amount of trauma before it finally affected the poor baby...