my 2 cents are in line w/many of you - i don't think the trunk was a possibility, she would have died a long time ago. and i think she would have had a lot of fear going into the car if she was often trapped in it.
I think anybody casey could palm caylee onto watched her, there doesnt seem to have been a motherly bond there from the get go.
i have a question about this one. aren't there pictures of casey breastfeeding caylee? having had two breastfed kids of my own, i guess i do not understand how she could not have bonded in some way... the hormones that float through you during breastfeeding are designed to have you bond. i am also wondering what her birth experience was like? women w/traumatic births can have a harder time bonding w/baby, and sometimes even typical labor pain meds can negatively impact bonding. for a normal person, difficulties like that can be overcome, but for a sociopath i am not so sure about that. especially if she was having a hard time bonding and then her mom was right there bonding away with the baby as if it was her own.
and... why would she choose to breastfeed in the first place?? i sometimes wonder if she didn't have botched attempts at trying to bond; maybe she knew something was amiss and tried to do what she could (e.g. breastfeed) to get the mother-daughter relationship cindy probably told her she SHOULD be having w/her daughter, or something. there are little things like that which don't seem to line up which make me think maybe she tried to bond, it didn't work, and she blamed caylee or her mother for that.
my guess is that casey did at least sometimes try to put forth some sort of effort into taking care of caylee, and probably did watch her during the day (at the very least driving a baby around all day is not much effort if the baby sleeps in the car easily), but it was always a chore she had to do versus spending time with her beloved daughter. i used to have a daycare, and i find babies easier to care for than toddlers. 2s and 3s are hard - they really have a mind of their own, they're harder to distract, they're great with temper tantrums, they're stubborn, they want everything their way, etc. it takes a whole different set of parenting skills to care for an 8-month-old vs a 28-month-old. i'm sure caylee was easier to care for as a baby and young toddler, and as she got closer to her 3rd birthday it just became more and more difficult. babies are also more portable and can be brought around to people's houses more easily versus a toddler/almost preschooler who has a mind of her own, ideas of her own, etc.
long story short - i think casey watched caylee, i think caylee was more rewarding to care for as a baby, and i think as she grew from cute fun baby into "snothead" casey found her to be a real problem. :maddening: