Glad you have a break Jax. Enjoy it. This Dr. said he would be EMBARASSED to attempt to testify that the baby was cut out by park bums, kept in a freezer, strangled, then thrown back in the Bay only to wash up exactly at the right place. As well, I think he said that it would require deliberately misrepresenting these medical facts. He stated that the baby was also the right gestational age. The clincher however was the meconium found at the baby's anus. We mothers know that meconium is expelled in the first 24 hours after the baby's birth unless it was expelled in utero due to stress. The baby was in the water not more than a day. He stated that there was NO evidence of ANY animal feeding on Connor.
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...