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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2009 6:14:00 GMT
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Post by happytraveller on Feb 15, 2009 15:57:53 GMT
That is really hard to believe. You can force a child to eat, in the worst case with an infusion. Somehow some people must have been blind there !
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Post by spindrift on Feb 15, 2009 18:41:20 GMT
I can understand the girl being traumatized....I feel similarly about dentists...the person who extracted all of her milk teeth should be prosecuted or, better still, struck off the medical register.
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Post by Aussielover on Feb 18, 2009 0:44:18 GMT
Yes - the adult teeth need the milk teeth in order to come in properly. The milk teeth act as a kind of guide to the adult teeth, and without them, the adult teeth will come in all crooked and overlapping, etc.
But as for the the parents and doctor of this poor girl. No child should be allowed to rule the roost like that, to her own detriment. Sorry - but I had a son who hated to eat. He had many a cold meal at the table long after the rest of us were finished. He wasn't allowed to get down from the table until he ate, what we felt, was a reasonable amount to sustain his life.
One day, when he was about 8 or 9, I showed him a photo of himself in his swim shorts. He looked emaciated and I told him to take a good look, because he looked like a starving refugee. Amazingly, he started to eat more after that. I think that children really don't have any idea of what their body image is, or what is healthy or not, and it's our job as parents to guide them and intervene however we need to, when they are endangering themselves.
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