No telling what kind of meds the poor thing has been on. Like the Columbine kids, & every woman Ive ever heard of who killed her kids. Not sure about that crazy broad who strapped her kids in the car & ran it in the lake several years ago, but every other one Im pretty sure has been on some kind of psychiatric medication. A quick read of potential side effects tells me to never take them, again. I was on them, for a long time & they did create suicidal tendencies. Once I was ACCURATELY diagnosed, I started getting better. I was full of toxic crap, heavy metals/pesticides & stuff left over from industrial chemical exposures. FWIW, Ive never seen anyone "made right" by the pharmaceutical crap they stuff down peoples throats who are having problems & I met a bunch of broken people while I was hospitalized & Ive been hospitalized 17 times.

Maybe it's like an animal instinct...
Many animals will kill their young when they know they can't take care of them...

I guess just the fact that this was EIGHT babies and she hid it every time!  And was over several year period of time.  For her to go through 9 months of pregnancy, and keep it from everyone, then go through the motions of the actual killing, then hide/bury the body, and cover it up all those years!?!!  Then multiply that by EIGHT !!  
Post-partum, whatever the issues, and I don't dispute real/true diagnoses of actual problems, but I don't see how someone with something like that could have had the "smarts" to cover all that up.....  EIGHT times!

isn't the day after pill available over the counter in france?

I will tell you all post partum is real. I was taken to the Dr as I thought I was going crazy and family didn't know what was going on either.
I was asked by the Dr if I was feeling suicidal or was having intensions of harming my baby? I said no to both as I never thought of either one.
Once the Dr spoke to me and made me  realize it happens to some women and I wasn't going crazy, I started  feeling better. I was fortunate to not have to go on medication.
I belive that family members and friends need to pay close attention to women not only durig pregnancy but after child brith as well.
One should never be made to feel ashamed that they may need some mental help.
I thank my family especially my Mom for  taking hold and getting me the help I needed.
I thank the Dr for taking  time and listening to me and helping to get me back onto the road of recovery.   kim

Piglet did the article mention the womans size ? Sometimes really fat woman can disguise pregnancy just by the fact they are fat..
A young woman (17) in our town recently gave birth in walmart,no one knew she had allways been huge. Anyway that would not explain the killing. Like Serowbot said it could be an instinctual thing,who knows ?

mick wrote on 07/29/10 at 12:23:54:


Here's the only thing it said concerning her weight --

" ... Cottrez and her husband have two adult daughters, but it was a difficult first pregnancy that sparked her actions, Vaillant said. Because of her weight, the first pregnancy was "traumatic," and she didn't want to go through it again, he said. ..."