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Be Careful What You Ask...it could lead to blintzes

How to start compiling your medical family tree:

Begin your medical family tree by making a list of your blood relatives, both living and deceased:

First-degree relatives: your parents, siblings, and children

Second-degree relatives: your grandparents, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and half-siblings

Third-degree relatives: great-grandparents, first cousins, great-aunts and great-uncles

Jot down birth dates and death dates wherever you can.

Do not include people who are related to you by marriage or adoption.

...if there are gaps in your family tree, your parents or siblings may be able to supply some of the missing information when you speak to them.

- Excerpted and edited
- Courtesy of the Genetic Disease Foundation

Read Inconceivable! and your journey will include (this is not the Table of Contents)

	Inconceivable!
Chap 1	Helene and the window diorama
Chap 2	Anatomy of the Auricle
Chap 3	Inside the police station
Chap 4	Helene on the bench with Albee
Chap 5	Giuseppe Fiore
Chap 6	Alais Peltze
Chap 7	Greco on a busy city bus
Chap 8	Patience and Fortitude
Chap 9	Dr Arnez
Chap 10	Dr Portney
Chap 11	Retsina and Appollonaris
Chap 12	Healthy infant
Chap 13	Althea Talos
Chap 14	Exterior of Colnyn Castle, Westmeath, Ireland
Chap 15	Heidi Weiss nursing Gustav at Nosidam
Chap 16	Dr CC
Chap 17	Helene being beaten on the riverbank
Chap 18	Greco at the banquet in Dallas
Chap 19	The riverbank crime scene
Chap 20	St Bernadette of Lourdes
Chap 21	Paradox
Part II	Second trimester
Chap 22	Bayonets at his back
Chap 23	Siobhan Peltze
Chap 24	Shaina Jaantee
Chap 25	Exterior of Colnyn Castle
Chap 26	Exterior of Airplane
Chap 27	Jewstown
Chap 28	Wolfhound running on the the Irish Greenway
Chap 29	Exterior of The Abbey of Monte Cassino
Chap 30	An unnamed grave at Arlington national cemetery
Chap 31	Madame Bernaudaud’s double exposure
Part III	Third trimester
Chap 32	Shayla Willians
Chap 33	Helene waiting alone at a dark, cold city bus stop
Chap 34	Cedric Willians
Chap 35	Wig Shop
Chap 36	Ambulance at accident scene
Chap 37	Full moon over Manhattan skyline
Chap 38	Helene with fawn
Chap 39	Lucky Cheng’s
Chap 40	Helene imploring the moon
Chap 41	Glenda, the good witch
Chap 42	Ruth Willians in agony
Chap 43	Helene in a wheelchair
Chap 44	The Alps
Chap 45	Gifts in the Lobby
Epilogue	Blackboard specials at Protector of Crete diner

Pregnant? No, not me!

Newborn Baby Girl, OC Homicide No. 13: Young Mother Held

Fullerton Police detectives believed Valderrama hid her pregnancy from her parents, who the then-19-year-old was living with on Sept. 4, 2009, when she gave birth to a baby boy in her bathroom around 10 p.m.

According to prosecutors, when Valderrama heard her mother trying to enter from a connecting bathroom, the teen stuffed her baby in the toilet until her mom left. She is accused of then wrapping the newborn in a t-shirt and tossing the little bundle of joy in a bedroom trashcan. Valderrama went on to expel the placenta, hiding it under the bathroom sink.

Later that night, Valderrama's mother walked into the same bathroom, saw large amounts of blood and called 9-1-1. Paramedics took the teen and the placenta that mom found under the sink to Anaheim Memorial Hospital. Doctors examined Valderrama and determined that she had just given birth and alerted police.

Cops found the deceased newborn in the bedroom trash can.

Does Helene Talos do the Inconceivable?

Neonaticide, in the news almost every day:

Prince George’s County authorities charged Sonya Spoon, 24, with killing her two toddlers — Ayden Spoon, 1, and Kayla Thompson, 3 — in their Cheverly home on Sept. 7. 

On Sept. 16, District police filed murder charges against Frances Lyles, 25, in the fatal beating of her son Xavier, 3, in June. 

Earlier this year, Montgomery County police brought murder charges against a Germantown woman who allegedly killed her two toddlers because she believed they were possessed by demonic spirits.

Phillip J. Resnick, a professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University’s Medical School who is considered to be an expert in the study of filicide, distinguishes between neonaticide, a term he coined to describe the killing of an infant by its parents within the first 24 hours of birth; infanticide, which involves a parent’s killing of a child less than 1 year old; and filicide, which is the killing of a child up to 18 years old by a parent, stepparent or guardian.

A statistical analysis by Brown University researchers of more than 15,000 homicide arrests over 32 years found that about 500 parental filicides occur annually, or about 2.5 percent of homicide arrests.

Fredrick Kunkle

Reporter,Washington Post

Why do Mothers kill their Infants?

One of the themes of Inconceivable! is the unspoken crime of infanticide, which occurs in conjunction with post-partum depression, sometimes, but other times in an attempt to deny pregnancy ever occurred.  And while Inconceivable! is fiction, the following is an example of the reality of maternal infanticide.

KEARNS, Utah (AP) — A newborn baby was in extremely critical condition Tuesday after her 24-year-old mother left her in a neighbor's trash can in Utah, a state that allows mothers to drop off newborns at hospitals without consequences, police and health officials said.

A woman heard what she thought was a kitten meowing in the trash bin in the Salt Lake City suburb of Kearns on Tuesday morning and found the baby, Unified Police Detective Jared Richardson said.

Richardson says the girl was airlifted to a hospital in Salt Lake City, where she's now on a ventilator and fighting for her life.

Her mother, who was being questioned by police, later returned and told officers she had left the baby about an hour before the child was found.

Salt Lake County Sheriff Jim Winder, who oversees the Unified Police Department, said authorities believe the baby girl was born Sunday.

Winder said at a news conference that investigators did not have any information about where the mother gave birth or why she may have left the baby in the trash can.

An unidentified woman is escorted from a home by a police officer after a baby was found in a garbage …"We had a young lady make a very, very terrible decision," he said.

Police would decide whether to arrest the mother after interviewing her, Winder said. Generally, anyone who abandons a child can face felony charges, in addition to any abuse or neglect charges, he said.

There were no visible injuries to the child and no information about the child's father, Winder said.

At the news conference, Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams and health officials listed resources available for expectant and new mothers, including a crisis hotline and the state's safe haven law, which allows mothers to leave newborns at hospitals, no questions asked.

Inconceivable! by Steve Marshall Cohen