:grouphug: is in order right now.
We are all on pins and needles, hoping for news, but afraid of what that could mean, while also afraid of no news
They found him!
I'm not sure it works that way. How far this baby could have possibly gotten isn't limited by how long the caregiver was distracted while watching him. It's limited by how long he was missing before conditions became too harsh for him to have survived them. It's likely he was alive and missing for 24 hours +. He could have gone a great distance in that time. There's no way to control the perimeter when they begin searching. So hour after hour after hour of searching, he could be getting further and further away.