[Dustbunny]

I understand the parents wanted their child to live but the doctors, hospitals and parents do not appear to have taken into consideration the 'quality of life' the child does/would have, if it finally did survive.

Putting this infant through all these operations was cruel.

I don't feel sad for the parents, I feel happy for the child that it's suffering is finally over and it is now safely in the arms of Jesus.

[joathome]

"Quality of life" can get fuzzy. If you give birth to a mentally retarded child, and one surgery can save his life, should the doctors be obligated to perform the surgery? Wouldn't that same surgery be performed on any other child?

The problem with the baby who died was obviousy very complicated, but the baby was "failure to thrive" to use an easier to understand term. Having given birth to a preemie, I know just a tiny bit about this. Some babies just refuse to thrive, not reacting positively to medical interventions that other less healthy babies heal from. After a while, it's pretty clear that those babies are suffering and will likely never get better.

My baby was born two and a half months early, and has normal intelligence, albeit with a few learning disabilities. No one who sees here would ever know of her rocky past. Which of these babies do we not "rescusitate"?