"What I am trying to say is, don't worry about your own life when a
little
precious, innocent, life is slipping away. Do what needs to be done and
if
both of you die in the process, it was worth it to try. The baby
wanted
you to try. "

Are you for real? Maybe YOU want to throw away your life in a futile
attempt to save a child. But most reasonable people would not. The
track record of people unskilled in rescue jumping into deep water to
save someone else is not a very poor one. Many times both wind up
drowning. And here you have a lady that could not even swim, and you
think she should have jumped into a rain swollen creek and just thrown
the child to shore? How realistic is that? Have you ever seen a rain
swollen creek, how fast the current moves and how chaotic it is?

Like most people, if I have a shot at saving a person, with reasonable
risk to myself, I would do it. But I don't make a big distinction
because it's a child. Nor would I knowingly sacrifice my own life in a
foolish rescue attempt which is only likely to result in two people
winding up dead or perhaps putting even more lives in jeopardy as
rescue workers now have to try to save two people, instead on one.