nurse convicted for force feeding her baby to death

[lou19]

www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/11/nurse-jailed-baby-force-feeding
.... and still she claims she did nothing wrong!!!I am just so horrified by this...how widespread is this practice of feeding babies with a milk jug?as a social worker I'd like to know....

I found it hard to take in on first reading. So sad. She wont serve 3 years.
I suspect mental health issues too. It would be worrying if that method of feeding was common practice.

What a terribly sad story. I think a 3 yr jail sentence is very harsh when she has already lost her child (at her own hands but in no way intentionally) It's possible she didn't know about the risks of aspiration. Different to when a parent drives a child under the influence of alcohol - they are fully aware of the risks.

I am not aware of this type of feeding but I do work in an area with lots of African families who all want their kids to be on the 99th centile for weight and disregard the risks of Type 2 diabetes and heart disease. They are not really faultess either.

Yes Edam, but when a baby dies, it sometimes seems as though there is a need to punish somebody which translates into a presumption of guilt on the part of the parent/carer.

Especially considering the Sally Clarke/Angela Canning/Trupti Patel cases where there was no evidence they had caused their babies deaths.

it can't be common practice to do it like that or more babies would end up dead

feeding a baby milk with a funnel-type beaker doesn't have to be dangerous: I did that on occasion with ds (hypotonic and poor sucking reflex)- but then I was a sane healthy woman who knew what I was doing; my mother did the same (not a cultural practice, just hypotonia in the family)

the problem with this woman seems to be that she was so obsessed with weight that she literally forced food down a choking baby- most mothers would have sensed something going wrong and stopped