ON KEEPING DISABLED CHILDREN SMALL ..?

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I heard on the news that women were found smoking to keep their babies small, (a known cause of this) because they want an easier delivery. last night I watched a BBC documentary about 1/2 a million women dying in childbirth in 3rd world countries. I'm not sure if that was yearly or in total. It was so heart breaking. Girls as young as 12 having babies as well. The Chinese are moving into Africa. I hope they don't mistreat them getting them as slave labour. N

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ON KEEPING DISABLED CHILDREN SMALL ..??

 

Updated: 3:23 p.m. AKT Nov 1, 2006 NEW YORK - In a report published in a medical journal this month, two doctors describe a 6-year-old girl with profound, irreversible developmental disability who was given high doses of estrogen to permanently halt her growth so that her parents could continue to care for her at home.

The controversial growth-attenuation treatment, which included hysterectomy, was requested by the child's parents and initiated after careful consultation and review by an ethics committee.

In their report in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Drs. Daniel F. Gunther and Douglas S. Diekema, both at the University of Washington in Seattle, explain the reasoning behind what they hope will generate a healthy debate. Gunther is at the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, and Diekema is at the Center for Pediatric Bioethics.

Caring for children with profound developmental disabilities can be difficult and demanding, they note. For children with severe combined neurologic and cognitive impairment who are unable to move without assistance, all the necessities of life — dressing, bathing, transporting — must be provided by caregivers, usually parents, and these tasks become increasing difficult, if not impossible, as the child increases in size.

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