Your father was wise. We don't know why some are born lucky and some are unlucky but we do know the Lord loves each one equally and will do justice in the long run. I was taught that those who die young are the best of the best of the Lord's children and that when we meet them in the hereafter, we will be in awe of their majesty and honor.
All of you who are waxing poetic about this tragic baby's next life, can you tell me one thing? What about the here and now? Most religions teach that we are not predestined and we have free will. Seems to me this poor little one is predestined all right. As for free will, where is the option for this baby to exercise any at all, even if she survives beyond infancy?
Look at her lying there on a flat table. She appears to be out in a hall somewhere, and the photo appears to have been taken surrepticiously, so you know that's routine care for the baby. She has no protection from falling off the table. No kindly nurse is watching over her. No mom. No dad. No love. I look at this and all I see is monstrous cruelty, not just by human beings who probably recoil from the baby, but by a God I all-too-often just do not understand.
I want to have faith in God. I want God to love me. But there are times I simply cannot look past the horrors of this world.