I just want to say that I really appreciate your posts. You're really good at filling in gaps based on what little bit of information is available.
I'm also really irritated at the media's exaggeration on this case. I'm not defending EM or anyone else, but the investigators clearly reported (I can find exact quotes to back this up) that the diapers were stacked a couple of feet high. I saw a popular local blogger exaggerated that the diapers were stacked to the ceiling after that. The next day, many news article also said that there were diapers stacked to the ceiling. It's a small detail, and it's ultimately not important, but it's inaccurate. This is similar to the younger children both being reported as girls in the beginning, but then it was misconstrued in one article and then in everything that followed that article. Everyone is desperate for more information on this case, but exaggerating and reporting inaccuracies isn't the way to get it.
This case haunts me. My background is in social work and I'm a mom of four. I have to know all of the whys. I have to know how those younger two children survived. What were they fed? Who interacted with them and to what degree? Someone was obviously changing some diapers at some point, or the diapers wouldn't have been stacked up. What about the babies that died? If they lived past birth, what were their lives like? I've never seen anything like this and I'm bound and determined to understand it on some level.