My partner has orthorexia - he’s doing better now, no longer dangerously underweight - and the most horrible part of it was convincing him to eat stuff he considered “unhealthy”. It was really confronting and horrible to be trying to insist that he eat red meat, when he’s in tears and telling me that it would kill…

Good point. From her out-of-touch-with-reality POV, her husband is now poisoning their baby by feeding him normally.

Owl see if I can refrain.

That’s when you make the kid sick on purpose, to get attention and sympathy for yourself. This appears to have been more of a delusion that she was doing the right thing for the baby, despite all evidence to the contrary.

Kind of reminds me of the parents who were feeding the baby nothing but almond milk and the boy had scurvy. SCURVY. At least this boy is with a father who will feed him properly, and his mother didn’t give him some old-timey sailor’s disease in the process of trying to kill- I mean, feed him.

has been released on her own recognizance, and no date has been set yet for her preliminary hearing.

Yeah. I hope he’ll be all right, but, depending how long it was...

That last sentence was berry good.

Isn’t that a little hawkish to not let others take wing like you have already?

And fruit

She’s definitely a little fruity in the head over this

Same here, those jokes really ruffle my feathers.

This woman sounds like she is suffering from some extreme mental illness. Obsessing over what your infant is eating is a little bit normal as a new mom. Restricting diets are so dangerous for infants. Infants literally need fat so their brains can develop. It sounds like this woman could possibly have done some…

She probably had an eating disorder herself, or some other kind of body dysmorphia and just couldn’t connect eating with health. It’s sad and delusional. Probably some kind of anxiety as well, maybe brought on by malnourishment. It’s a wonder she was able to get pregnant and nurse

No more bird jokes on this post, I prey.

I think one of those human Barbie people claims to follow that diet. Internet message boards can be dangerous places...

It’s mental illness, pure and simple. No one in their right mind subjects an infant to that kind of abuse. If the mother was convinced it was necessary, she was nuts.

Did she think her child was a squirrel?

What she really should’ve been feeding her offspring is mice and small birds.

“She was going to live on water and sunlight.”