Not only does she need to sign a paper saying that she can't sue, she needs help before she can take that baby home. Edit: Omg thanks for all the likes.
you better don't go there after one of your doctors violated ethical rules for no reason. Also, the signature may not hold in court as it will be done under extreme duress (not being able to keep the baby).
@@jaimeduncan6167But why should the hospital suffer from her dumbass decisions. I understand ethically speaking they did violate a rule. However the doctors were trying to do was something that woman should have been doing the entire time making sure the baby was healthy and getting the actual nutritions the baby needed to live. I know pregnancy hormones can be out of whack, but this wasn’t hormones at that point this was straight up delusional thinking and she does need help. I mean the husband mentioned that she always had anxiety and control issues. Judging by the way she behaves she probably never got Therapy at least from the parts shown in this video.
It will be a vegetable is this low IQ excuse for the mother will start to feed the baby with vegan diet. There is something wrong with the law if it allows pregnant woman to starve her own baby in her womb. (She has money, support system, access to healthcare etc). Just because the baby is on wrong side of the womb does not give her right to kill her own baby. At 8 months a baby can survive outside. If it was a newborn than a woman faces jail time. But because the kid is inside her, none can do anything. Also why the father is not considered into the equation in such cases. The woman is clearly demented and cannot make logical rational decision. It is not like she prefers Chinese food over Italian or something, she is starving her baby.
Today, nobody’s pure. Not physically, mentally, emotionally or medically. Everyone’s impure in one way or another. You have diabetes, heart disease, cancer, an eating disorder, tuberculosis, soft bones, brittle skin, deafness, tooth decay, etc. We live in a world where people can be fine in one moment and go loony in another.
I feel bad for the child, especially at the end when she asked what were they putting in him. You know she will control that child's food till they are 18 and can get away from their mom.
Orr seeing her premature child with tubes manually feeding him may have given the mom a wake up call. She may not force her eating disorder on her child out of a newfound understanding.
@@alphaartistmsp2433 while a clear viable thing that can happen you’d be amazed the amount of people who don’t realize what they’re doing, there have been cases of moms hearing that and freaking out because they’re trying to kill their baby with that stuff. Human stupidity never ceases to simultaneously amaze and disappoint me.
that's like... what, 1/3rd of what is needed for a NORMAL adult that is NOT pregnant. If you have to then ALSO support the development and eventual feeding of a fetus.... yikes.
Doesn't it remind you of other people in the real world? People who did their "research" on the internet on a specific medical issue that we just went through?
@@Gib01 I agree with this but you also have to remember even if the facts are what they are people choose not to follow factual guidelines. Its just how people work and nobody can force anything upon them if they choose to follow a pseudo-scientific route.
It’s sad that this mother had to physically watch her baby in tubes and IVs getting the proper nutrition in order for her to see what she was doing is harming her baby 😞
Except she didnt see that. She saw people giving her baby things she didnt approve of. Hence the question about what the baby was getting. The mom's mental state wasn't fixed by the c-section.
first of, would have been a consult, not a House worthy case. Seconds, he would have done as he always does in consult: tell her nuts or/and😅 tell Cuddy a baby is being starved
He wouldn't have. He'd have given them some lecture, they'd leave the hospital, and nothing would change. Because you cannot cure a mental illness with "tough love" or "telling it like it is." The fact that the show House made it seem that way was always just Hollywood garbage.
Any parent who starts enforcing THEIR lifestyles onto a kid who really has no choice but to go along should really never be parents in the first place. They're the types who would rather kill their child than admit their beliefs aren't for correct.
@@samg873 thankfully you went to a real doctor and not a nutritionist! Nutritionists don’t have to have any actual qualifications and are more often than not scammy
@@samg873 yes! Anyone can use it. They’re certainly not all bad but a lot of them are A dietitian is an actual title that requires a certain amount of education
she thinks she's not. She thinks she's protecting it and that doctors don't know much because that's what an alternative medicine practitioner has led her to believe
My cousin was doing the same thing to her baby, only feeding her apple juice and barely enough formula. But it wasn't for health reasons. She said she didn't want to have a fat baby. Thank God the state took her into custody. Pretty sure my cousin is still in jail.
A family friend just lost her baby at almost full term because she had severe body dysmorphia and barely ate, resulting in the baby being born at 3 pounds. So heartbreaking.
@Mike Sixx It's because of the state of the world. With a rising distrust in news, politics, religion, schooling, police officers, doctors, and fire fighters. People in this day and age don't trust authority figures because all we see of them is being either corrupt or unable to do their job.
I was at my worst with my ED when I got pregnant… I didn’t believe I could get pregnant. And the day I found out, I started eating again. I’m very grateful that I was able to put the baby before those thoughts… this is heart wrenching
Same- I barely ate and was obsessed with my weight. But as soon as I got pregnant I started to eat healthy and made sure my baby would get the food to grow.
My son saved mine too, but from alcoholism. Not an ED by any means but I’m happy to say he helped me turn everything around. He’s 5 months old almost 6 and started solids.
There's a difference between being "confused" and being willfully ignorant. This woman will do anything (nutritionist, midwife) except listen to a doc.
There is also a difference between being willfully ignorant, and being delusional. She truly believed she was doing what was best for her and her baby. It's scary, but mental illness can do that to a person. It's the same way people will jump off buildings believing they can fly, nowhere in our society do we give any incling to that being possible, yet people will believe it when they are ill.
I was poisoned by a doctor and given incorrect antibiotics which caused me to need to go to the ER for a full week.. some nurses gir incorrect medications that are fatal... Some people are scared to trust doctors bc of personal experience... Is that a mental disorder ?
@@macie8571 Dr's/nurses do make mistakes, it's not like they poisoned u on purpose and to distrust all Dr's bc of one experience is stupid. And her character never mentioned an experience like that, even her husband stated that she's always been off like that and it just got worse when she became pregnant.
@@GraceyManorsyup but knowing how the mother was acting, she would’ve tried to sue them for not helping her, at least in the way she was “ helping “ her baby.
There is something like that called an AMA form that patients sign when they are leaving the hospital against medical advice (AMA). Basically, by signing it, the patient acknowledges that they understand the risks and potential complications of not receiving treatment and desire to continue without treatment.
@@jenniferromero571 Oh, God, the number of people who try to self-diagnose over the internet without realizing that almost all of these medical sites are written by the insurance companies...
@@DigiDestined13 I feel like those medical sites being written by insurance companies isn't the problem- the problem is people who use those sites and when their symptoms point to (for the sake of this example) cancer they accept it's cancer, tell people they have cancer, but make zero attempts to see a doctor about their "cancer". Those websites can be useful but you still gotta go see professionals to confirm things.
As a pregnant momma who struggles with ED’s I am so glad I am able to force myself to eat well for my baby. It may not be the healthiest foods but I take my vitamins and she is healthy at 27 weeks 💕
@Xyz Xyz ED can come and go also the important thing is this person is conscious of what they have and are doing the best for herself and the baby in her belly I have ED too
@Xyz Xyz could have been an accident, or they could have gained it while pregnant. Especially with hormones running rampant, pregnant women can have a hard time eating because their senses are exponential. But I don't know their situation, ED can come from anything really or nothing. My ED came from anxiety 🤷♀️
@@mjallen1308 yes but it's not very difficult to understand that we discuss this imagining that it happened IRL. Which is true. That explains the success of such TV show
These episodes that deal with patients who don’t like modern medicine and chose alternatives are very relevant. I love how they focus on real issues and do them well.
The patient clearly has orthorexia. Her unusual fear and paralysis of “impure food”, only eating 800 calories a day, it’s very blatantly a mental health issue and extreme health anxiety. I wouldn’t actually quality her in the “crazy alternative” realm, since organic fresh produce with low red meat intake isn’t an insane stance to have. Im vegetarian myself and prefer fresh produce over more processed foods, but the borderline is the obsession and anxiety around the food, alongside restriction and improper management of intake.
The stuff in the IV bag that Manning tried to give her contained glucose and amino acids aka the broken down components of carbohydrates and proteins. She was just worried because it looked scary because it was in a bag and not a whole food.
I have nothing against people's view but to force it upon a child who is not strong enough and needs other things is just wrong. Let them decide later on in life it that's what they want.
@@imadone Yes exactly!! I can't believe the show didn't even address her obvious eating disorder. No adult thinks 800 calories a day is ok during pregnancy. (Or at all, unless one is on a special diet under close doctor supervision)
My mom would do that with all my female doctors, and I lost several of them. She would argue based on something she read on Facebook or on a blog; I was absolutely humiliated and exhausted. I told her straight up, "I'm not gonna have that because I don't want to lose a doctor." It was a miracle she listened.
The proof is literally the baby itself!!! she's supposed to be 8 months pregnant but her baby's size and growth is that of a 5 month old... The fact she ended up in the E.R and her body is practically failing due to being malnourished. I know this is a show but damn the anxiety 😭
This is why mothers always always always have to go to ultrasound. If she would see how small her baby is she would know soon enough that something is wrong (maybe it wouldn't change much but at least someone would already start to push on her getting better nutrition). Even better mothers can have complications. My baby niece was doing great and then on 28th week they found on ultrasound too low flow in umbilical cord. They tried to fix it with magnesium, but after week at the hospital she had to go on C-section anyway (on last ultrasound she was barely moving even with glucose directly delivered through her mom's veins. And her stomach started to be a little bit too small). So born on 29th week. Long story short it saved her life. She had to overcome some complications but she is now almost 3 months old and at home. (and that's central Europe, by the way. In richer countries the chances of recovering are even better I assume)
@@royalrenegade788this case specifically has clear anxiety disorder symptoms. She’s not avoiding eating because of body dystrophies, she’s doing it because she’s anxious about her and her baby’s well being to an irrational degree
@@toffeefeathers It aligns with orthorexia, which is the unhealthy obsession of “healthy” living. She wants to be in control, in this case it isn’t necessarily body shape but it is physical health. Anxiety plays a role in it, but this is a classic presentation of an ED
@@thepinkestpigglet7529This doesn’t fit the criteria of an anxiety disorder, but absolutely fits within body dysmorphic and eating disorders. The biggest clues are the fact that she says she and the baby “need” to have a restricted diet. While anxiety disorders can cause obsessive compulsions when compulsions are so heavily focused on diet and physical health they can only fit within a diagnosis of body dysmorphic and eating disorders.
That mother was almost me. I was very depressed while pregnant, became paranoid and developed the delusion that any doctor or healthcare worker was going to take my baby from me, or horrifically hurt us. So naturally with that fear I avoided prenatal care until I was 28weeks along. After telling my mom I was going to do an unassisted birth, my family helped me find a midwife I could trust, and I had a homebirth. Thank God I had an amazing midwife because I ended up hemorrhaging pretty bad. I was very fortunate that my son and I were healthy. I didn't receive mental health care until many months after. Now 6 years later and much professional help, I can see how I put us both in danger and how unwell I was. This is a very real topic. I know for me in the thick of it I truly couldn't understand what I was doing was dangerous, I absolutely believed I was doing what was best for my son and I.
I know I’m late, but wow I’m so sorry:( I can’t imagine the overwhelming fear. So glad for you that you got help though and congratulations on your healthy baby 💗
Last scene, she didn't ask if the baby is gonna live, just asking what are they putting in him. She didn't learn her lesson, she doesn't care about health, she only cares what's "toxic"
Thing is, as someone with anxiety, I can empathize with her fears, but it's so scary that it can turn that bad for someone that it affects their own health. Mental health is no joke
Yeah i remember myself when i was pregnant and also postpartum… anxiety through the roof. Felt bad for the patient, her boyfriend should have set her straight. My husband protected me from my thoughts
@@simsandwins8998 I've heard terrible things about postpartum depression and such. I'm happy your husband was there to help you get through it. I wish you and your family the best!
The thing that horrifies me is even if this baby managed to survive infancy, they would be malnourished and would likely end up growing up with an eating disorder with a mother who had this level of paranoia and restriction around food. That's assuming she didn't lose custody all together when someone reported her for neglect due to starving her child.
I wonder why the midwife didn’t tell her to eat more, eat better, to take vitamins, that she and her baby were in danger? Couldn’t the midwife tell that the baby wasn’t developing correctly, even without a sonogram?(There are nurses who are also midwives as well, but every state has different requirements to be licensed, there are schools and graduate programs to become a midwife). I wonder about the development of the baby, low birthweight, what neurological, developmental, and physical issues the baby could have that could impact walking, coordination, talking, speaking, learning, vision, hearing…. If she has the baby at home and there are complications during the birth, what then? After the baby is born, what if she develops worse heart issues or other health issues and what if the baby needs medical attention? I sadly have a feeling that she won’t see an actual physician or cardiologist or other specialists later on to see about the other medical issues she has or could develop later on or take her the baby to see an actual pediatrician for checkups and if need be specialists like occupational, physical, and speech therapists or if the child has developmental, learning, and behavior issues.
@@hannahwig im sure she had different midwifes and kept pushing them away until she found one who cared more about money on her pocket than baby's safiety.
It’s the mother that has an eating disorder - orthorexia. The baby, assuming it gets enough nutrients to keep growing, would probably eat normally just as the dad does.
There is no way this woman would be allowed to harm her baby like this in real life. It's odd this sloppy writing exists in the same fictional universe as Law & Order and Homicide LOTS
@@diosoth actually it can and does. Its a result of my body my choice, the baby isn't a life yet legally in some states like California and New York. It's not just about what a law says but how it can be interpretted.
Yes very dangerous I battle with Ed and had to force myself to eat for my son. Sometimes I still have 2 and I only have a few weeks left. And in anxiety u get from seeing/hearing about baby's that were harmed or died do to bad food and it makes it so much worse.
While not included in the DSM, orthotexia is a regularly diagnosed "unspecified feeding or eating disorder," and is characterized by an extreme and dangerous obsession with conventionally "healthy" eating. It is serious, especially when it interferes with certain special nutritional requirements characteristic of pregnancy.
Genuinely, I'd be having regular visits from CPS or something to make sure the kids actually gaining weight, at least for a few months. No threats, just weigh ins.
I feel like there should be a mental disorder on vegans. I got a vegetarian cousin we get along fine how I’ve done plenty of people vegetarian. Vegans I can never associate or be friends with them. Such as I need to guys are used to work with not that I would bother even mentioning them. Those two were the definition of vegan psychos. Interestingly enough one of them will talk about conspiracy theories of how sugar is made along with many other crazy outrageous BS, conspiracy garbage. The other one was not only just vegan, but he was always showing up late for work and oh yes, to make it even interesting he actually was doing heroin. The problem with these people is that they exist to literally going cause harm to businesses and themselves, especially when they’re about to have children. I’d like to see them go to a village in Africa and tell them they got a start eating their way, then getting chased out.
@@fabplays6559 - Any less than the recommended amount is not a good thing for mother or child! Malnutrition is a serious health risk that affects many people who need to get more than a handful of food in them.
As someone in the medical field, this is so real and very frustrating. Unfortunately it is the patient’s call on any sort of procedures, so sometimes you do have to just sit and watch as they get worse. All you can do is provide them with the education. Whether they agree to follow through is ultimately up to them
I could never be a doctor or a nurse. I’d have no patience and little empathy for patients in cases like this. I’d end up like House except fired because he’s actually a terrible doctor despite his results. Good thing I have no interest in the medical field, for my own sanity and for the good of my would-be patients.
Unfortunately there's another side of this equation. So many doctors are only interested in following protocols and pushing pills instead of actually helping patients. It's just "oh, we'll watch it and give you even more drugs." I'd like it if my doctors were more interested in actually working with me instead of pushing drugs and hoping for the best. And sadly, it does make me anxious, paranoid, and unwilling to listen.
@@breecegriffith5896 yes but that would compromise the situation. If she got defensive she’d be less likely to listen to reason and wouldn’t feel like she was safe to agree to anything
What's worse is even after almost loosing her child she asked what they were putting in him. Which only shows how constricted he's going to be growing up, and how his life would of been depleted by having a mother who was so anxious and incompetent
I can't believe what she did was starving her unborn baby, and she was afraid of the ivy nutrition that would've helped her baby grow before it was born
She was pregnant most of the first season so I was seriously wondering why she didn’t try to use her own experiences sooner to try to get the patient on her side
When I was a young teen, I babysat for a little one that a chiropractic "doctor" and his wife had. They measured each ounce she took in and she was like a little skeleton. As the mother had been chubby as a teen, they were determined their daughter would not get fat. I was instructed not to feed her anything but rice milk, cut up veggies and such. Here's the irony - 35 years later, said child is pudgy and looks happy! Oh,and the dad died at the age of 59. Just saying....I think you should feed and love on babies lavishly. Not sweets, but good nutrition and you cannot spoil a child by holding them, singing to them, etc.
Please don't mock the dad's profession, when it is those parents mental disorders that effected the care of their child. No chiropractic school, which is an actual school like med school, will teach that in health class. I work for one, and he teaches balanced proper nutrition and active fitness is how to be healthy, not teaching a kid to have eating disorders and body issues.
@@ayajade6683 actually, it requires a pre- med degree. Also extensive education in the health am function of the muscles, nervous system and skeletal system. It seems to me you met one of the ones who is just weird and practices improperly. Especially with he and his wife teaching their child how o have eating disorders.
@@heathercontois4501 i hear you, and let me open by saying I've seen a chiro numerous times who is fantastic, educated, and respectable. However. The stigma against chiropractors doesnt come from nowhere. I knew one who claimed he could treat ADHD with periodic sessions involving a little drum set connected to an interactive video. It's been a while, but I think I heard him claim a couple times that after enough sessions, symptoms wouldn't return. Gullible people paid to have their child tap a plastic drum at the direction of a tv screen, so well persuaded they didnt realize the absurdity of the idea that playing, essentially, super slow guitar hero at most once a week was going to treat a mental disorder that is typically handled by pills you can tell the day of whether you took or not. So, I think I understood OP's quotes around doctor. Chiros are chiros, not doctors. They're very good at what they do, but they shouldn't veer out of that lane, regardless of whether the temptation to do so might be ego or greed. The end result is bad for everyone.
@@sapphireriddles6692 Chiropractors are in the medical system as Doctors of Chiropractic-like every other kind of specialty. I do fully follow that they can have the same quacks and crazy practitioners as every other medical profession. It's just that with it being a specialty, it makes the stigma against it worse.
I bet House would have just gotten her a catalog for 'Baby caskets' and said: ''This is the next best advise I can give you. In this case, I bet you can get a really good '2 for 1' deal when both of you dies...''
I understand the anxiety while pregnant. I had a completely healthy pregnancy with no issues or even family history of issues, but every single time I used to the bathroom I checked to make sure I wasn’t bleeding. I was terrified to the point of sweating at every appointment that they were gonna tell me they couldn’t find a heartbeat and I was going to have to deliver my dead baby. It was crippling. But, you cannot let your own fears take over. You have to be strong you have to be smart. It’s not about what you feel like doing anymore. It’s about doing what you have to do to protect the life and mind of your baby.
If I had a partner who ended up starving our unborn baby to death, refusing to listen to the doctor, science and common sense I would leave her. And if the baby somehow survived I would still leave her and take full custody until she got the help she needed.
Patient clearly has an eating disorder, but because she pretends to be "health conscious" they act like she's just overly concerned for the baby? such bullshit
I suffered from ED for a long time and I cried so much and was so worried about what would happen if I got pregnant, that I told myself I never wanted kids. Now that I’m married and really want kids in the future, this is my greatest fear. It is absolutely paralyzing to fear that you would be the cause of your own miscarriage
Since it seems you'd like to have kids, and are so aware of your struggles, surround yourself with a mental, birthing and nutrion medical team which will help you stay strong through pregnancy. 🤗
I had an extremely bad eating disorder when I was a teen/early adulthood. I was tormented my whole life by classmates and family over being fat and when I was 14 I swallowed a 500 count of Tylenol and at the time was so upset I woke up the next morning. So once that happened I turned to the whole ED. Then I got pregnant unexpectedly, not trying, using 2 types of Birth Control, and I was in university. I didn't want a baby and I was so scared as I didn't find out I was pregnant until 11 1/2 weeks along. What could I have done? But my worry for my child and a very very strong doctor who told me I had two choices, to start eating properly or he was going to have me strapped to a bed and a feeding tube put through my nose. It made me start to eat, it was very slow going and I will admit I had more months of weight loss then gain, but I was following the eating plans as best as I could. I was also cursed with Hyperemesis which caused me to puke right up until I delivered my baby! But 19 years later, she is healthy, smart and had a very good relationship with food. I do still struggle a lot, but after I had my daughter, I wanted to make sure she didn't go down the road I did, and I had to lead by example! The point to my ramblings is, sometimes veing pregnant can have a more positive effect on you then this mom. It makes you go the opposite way and want what is best for your baby no matter what happens to you. I'm sure you will be awesome and make the best choices for your family! And if you are still struggling, talk to someone about it. It isn't weak to reach out and ask for help! Good luck!!
@@faristasairuv5143 I’ve made a lot of progress with counseling and medication. I gained healthy weight and my ED doesn’t control my life anymore like it used to. Im still a little tentative and have anxiety issues but I’m hoping I’ll be off medication in a year or so.
@@Nikki_81 that gives me a lot of hope. Im at a point now where Im fairly confident I would maintain a physically healthy pregnancy thankfully. My only worry is going back initially to my old habits and how the anxiety will affect me during the pregnancy. But I’m actively doing what I need to heal completely. It’s just that voice in the back of my mind that comes out every once in a while. I dont think that fear will ever go away but I’m lucky to have my husband by my side
i like the irony of how she tried so hard to make her baby natural as possible, yet he has to grow outside the womb being grown with formulas and science.
They should have been blunt. Tell her your baby was going to die so she would understand. That's what the ob said to my mum. He ordered complete bed rest but my mum thought she could still walk around, do chores and even go shopping for groceries. Then the doctor told her bluntly "Did you not hear what I just said? You are going straight to bed moving only to go to the bathroom. You are not permitted to walk at all. Or do you want to see your baby in an incubator? If she survives birth, of course." That's when she comprehended the seriousness of the situation. I still had to spend a month in the nicu but it was not related to that and I was delivered almost full term.
… a lot of stuff is wrong here. - should have done a psych eval - not broken patient trust or violated patient wishes (despite it being a good idea, objectively) - spoken with hospital nutritionist or anyone in OBGYN to convince her almost every episode there’s some egregious error that would result in loss of license.
@@bruh9977 yes, it’s a show, but if they’re gonna talk about and show things that are as common as instances like this, they can at least try to make it more accurate. The comment’s right, EVERYTHING there should have been done/not been done
@@averymoreland3081 Exactly, especially since this show has a psychiatrist as one of the main recurring characters. Why not bring him and at least do an eval?
Well, it happened to me and nobody lost any license. I was straight delusional and paranoid, but I was treated like I was perfectly mentally healthy and allowed to keep on doing what I was doing. The only person who kinda tried to help was my mom. She convinced me to have a midwife attend my birth, thankfully as I did end up hemorrhaging. I didn't lose custody of my son, and I wasn't admitted to the psych ward. I only received professional help when my son was 8 months old. Looking back now it is really discouraging how many people, including healthcare professionals didn't care enough to actually get me help, or at minimum say something to me.
To seeing the baby in the incubator at the end made me think about how my parents must have felt cuz I was born 3 months premature with my twin brother, we stayed in the hospital for a good 3 months I can't imagine what that must have been like for my parents especially my mom.
Im a twin with a brother too. We were both 3 pounds and 2 months premature. I was in the nicu for a month, I can’t imagine how any parent would feel after hearing that they have to wait weeks until they can take their baby home with the fear of them not making it
I dont get why didnt they just outright tell her that her baby is being starved to death since she already knows that her 8 month pregnancy is the size of a 5 month pregnancy
I haven't seen this episode, but they should've called in Dr. Charles. Her wrong beliefs and desire for control really messed up her thinking, causing physical harm to herself and the baby.
More often than not said "legal" action goes nowhere and the most she gets is a slap on the wrist. Gotta say, while I respect her intentions, it does get grating
Her patient is the mother, this is nonsense. If it was another doctor, a non-feminist one it will make sense, but Dr Mannning is not supposed to belive that the fetus (no baby to starve) has any particular value besides the mother's desire.
That’s not a good thing. She has wrongly called cps on several patients and broke several laws. Even if she doesn’t agree as a doctor she has no right to do that IV. The doctors on this show are narcissist with a terrible god complex.
That is wrong. You only need to eat at most an extra 300 calories a day at the end from what I remember. It's not a full human like you are and does not need nearly as much as you do.
A grown woman should be taking in 2500 calories a day, her being on 700-800 is anorexic status , and when pregnant the above comment is correct you only need to increase your diet by s few hundred calories to support the baby, women think eating for two is doubling your calorie intake but that can lead to extreme weight gain, gestational diabetes , fluid retention, diet is so important when pregnant
Thinking about this and how she is acting when she’s pregnant, essentially killing her baby. I cannot imagine how she would theoretically be as a mother raising that child. It would probably be HORRIBLE for the kid. I mean, having a mom watch every move, probably not let you go outside, having anxiety over you for essentially no reason. She is the definition of overprotective parenting gone wrong.
IV fluid is like the healthiest food for the baby with no chewing necessary. All the nutrients the baby AND you need plus you just need batches and you two will be okay
Sometimes they are right I went to multiple doctors and payed lots of money only to tell me it was in my head when I knew for sure it wasn’t. So I did my own research came up with the conclusion saw another doctor and it turns out I had the same disease that has no cure. I was in debilitating pain everyday since I turned 13.
theres times when i can apreciate patients disagreeing but even then i generally dont disagree with the facts of the situation my dr thinks i could maybe loose just a touch weight (im 105kg hed prefer i was closer to 80) i disagree on the basis that im not gaining weight and have held this weight solid since i was 17 years old (im now 30) my diet is not excessive and i am somewhat active i ride my ebike in pedal assist mode 20 miles a day (it actually counts its better than driving a car) and i often walk long distances with ease and ive always been fairly physically fit i ran cross country for fun i was on the sprinting team and played rugby and am quite strong ive chosen to not make any drastic changes to my diet as im already eating fairly well and if i loose the weight great if not i dont forsee it causing any major health negatives to me at this stage to warrant undergoing major diet or excercise changes that being said i do not for one single second disagree with his opinion it would be optimal for me to be less over weight and there are some minor risks posed to me those are facts and i dont disagree with them nor do i think i know better than him btw my daily caloric intake sits around 1000-1800 calories at best
It’s not pride, but fear. She’s scared and these doctors don’t consider her opinion. If she thinks the IV is bad they should try to educate her further and address her concerns, bring in a third party, or find a different alternative.
I had hyperemesis gravidarum (extreme morning sickness) during my pregnancy and could barely keep anything down for days at a time because of it, but i would still force myself to try to eat for myself & my baby. thankfully we’re both healthy and happy now ♥️
the thing is thats not even what farm to table is about farm to table is about eating food at its freshest for flavour and some minor nutrient benefits its no guarentee that theres no growth hormone or antibiotics or pesticides your eating also it doesent even mean that the food goes direct from the farmers tractor to your table because most meat gets slaughtered at a slaughter house so theres a step and unless you driving your ass into the country every week your foods stopping off at a distrobution hub before it heads to whole foods
When I was pregnant with my oldest daughter. I wasn't gaining much weight for the 1st 6 months and I was honestly terrified she was gonna come out very underweight. I managed to gained 30lbs within the last 3 months and she came out healthy. To see a mother only take in so little when pregnant thinking she's helping the baby is actually pretty heartbreaking
My mother had to mix butter with water and drink it to make me and herself gain enough weight. I was born around 4 pounds, but still healthy apart from that.
I lost weight from the beginning didn’t even know I was pregnant until I was about 5 months. I gained weight at the end same about 30 but it was literally fluid ( I think I was going into preclampsia) I lost 20lbs in 3 days after birth and was back to normal in a month.
@@Daydreamerr13not just them either to be honest their everywhere now because of incompetent people making people more and more scared of simple or safe things to the point so many health issues are on the rise
That mom and moms out there in real life need definitely more support especially for mental health, one can become so disillusioned with health and wellness that it sucks you in and you go mad questioning and distrusting everything.
The thing that worries me the most about the situation is that she is 100% not going to change once the kid is older. She is going to starve that child their entire life and give them a very unhealthy relationship with food.
As someone who has a family member who is a psychiatrist, I can tell you that it wouldn’t have helped. The only way they could force her into medical treatment is to get a judge to declare her mentally incompetent, and she doesn’t meet that requirement. She does need mental help, obviously, but that would take years of therapy, that’s not something a hospital can do.
Honestly the conflict this woman has, to be so terrified of potentially contaminated food is very interesting. I can see this being a potential issue in the future.
Me as her doctor would make absolute certain she’d never leave the hospital with that baby…she needs psychiatric help and hospitalization. Baby need to be in safe place.
In situations like these, the parents need help and education. And if that doesn't work you have to ask if the child will really be safe with the parents while they have this mindset
It’s likely that her “midwife” is a naturopath or something, someone that is equally as scared of GMOs and processed foods and loves organic, that would affirm her beliefs.
@@barbarahollands6415 yeah no they're only good in wack-a-doodle circles they're quacks who 99% of the time should be charged with practicing medicine without a license
The issue is midwives don’t require the same amount of training, so while there are excellent, up to date, midwives out there, there are also, not so great ones.
As someone who suffered from ED and is pregnant and got HG and food aversions and acid reflux so bad my throat bleeds daily, I get the struggles of eating and giving proper nutrients to my baby. When I had my 20 week scan and was told he was on the small side, I pushed down all my worries about food and pushed myself to eat for my baby and he doubled in size in ten weeks. He’s perfectly healthy now and the perfect size for 37 weeks. I released a month ago and stopped eating again and ended up in hospital cos I was putting strain on baby and my body cos I wasn’t eating and drinking enough but I’m lucky my body fat kept him alive. I’ve lost more weight than I’ve gained and still under my pre pregnancy weight but thankfully baby is perfectly healthy and reaching the right weight and milestones
Man I swear people just don’t know what their saying because doctors have gone almost 12 years of med school they know what there talking about leave it to the professionals don’t starve your baby that’s messed up!!!
Doctors also want to make their own lives simpler by following guidelines that other doctors also follow because other doctors follow to make a 9-5 simpler. When proven wrong they shrug it off and get back on board with what other doctors think to make their life simpler..
These are the moments that I wish there was a house in the room to tell them how crazy they sound for doing this to an innocent life. If you want to hurt yourself by not eating enough and giving yourself nutritional value that's fine on you but don't hurt someone else with your beliefs.
the best thing i can comment is that people need to remember that healthy foods/organic foods dont have anything to do with fat loss or gain & nutrition in terms of weight, muscle and body fat. you can eat "healthy" all day and still not lose weight or fat, because your calories are too high of healthy foods. the opposite is true, too. nutrition is about being healthy with micronutrients, vitamins and minerals AND in terms of weight and body fat %/lean muscle tissue.
It’s so frustrating that in one of the wealthiest countries in the world that people are so ignorant and susceptible to misinformation….like I know this is a fictional character but there are SO many women who are actually like this and it’s seriously scary that they’re raising children.
This makes me really sad as someone with HG pregnancy and a damaged stomach (and diabetes) I struggled to keep my baby alive to keep us fed and she was born really small luckily really healthy. We are now a year further and she is growing so well I am forever grateful to the doctors that helped me get through it
So okay she wants to eat healthy and organic foods only. But why did she also throw in “portion control”, you don't need to portion healthy foods while you’re pregnant (unless doc recommends against it). Makes no sense cause the more nutrition the better. She also didn't answer when asked how many meals a day she eats 😬. Why are you surprised the doctors say you’re both malnourished when you’re 8 months pregnant looking like you weigh 100 lbs 🤦🏽♀️??
She obviously has anorexia. People with mental illness exist they aren’t stupid their judgment is clouded. Just have some empathy for people who are different than you.
I admit not all doctors are great but not all of them are wrong and this woman is an example of what happens when you believe most of the crap you see online and think you know better than a doctor
Before this woman leaves the hospital, she needs to be required to sign a letter that she cannot sue the hospital if the baby dies.
I agree
Not only does she need to sign a paper saying that she can't sue, she needs help before she can take that baby home.
Edit: Omg thanks for all the likes.
you better don't go there after one of your doctors violated ethical rules for no reason. Also, the signature may not hold in court as it will be done under extreme duress (not being able to keep the baby).
I was thinking they need to call cps. Who knows how she'll neglect that baby with the way she thinks
@@jaimeduncan6167But why should the hospital suffer from her dumbass decisions. I understand ethically speaking they did violate a rule. However the doctors were trying to do was something that woman should have been doing the entire time making sure the baby was healthy and getting the actual nutritions the baby needed to live. I know pregnancy hormones can be out of whack, but this wasn’t hormones at that point this was straight up delusional thinking and she does need help. I mean the husband mentioned that she always had anxiety and control issues. Judging by the way she behaves she probably never got Therapy at least from the parts shown in this video.
"It is my job to keep this baby pure."
Girl, it is your job to make sure the baby is taken care of and be healthy. That is a baby, not a vegetable.
It's gonna become a vegetable if they're not careful
It will be a vegetable is this low IQ excuse for the mother will start to feed the baby with vegan diet. There is something wrong with the law if it allows pregnant woman to starve her own baby in her womb. (She has money, support system, access to healthcare etc). Just because the baby is on wrong side of the womb does not give her right to kill her own baby. At 8 months a baby can survive outside. If it was a newborn than a woman faces jail time. But because the kid is inside her, none can do anything. Also why the father is not considered into the equation in such cases. The woman is clearly demented and cannot make logical rational decision. It is not like she prefers Chinese food over Italian or something, she is starving her baby.
Lol this comment is hilarious. 😂
Today, nobody’s pure. Not physically, mentally, emotionally or medically. Everyone’s impure in one way or another. You have diabetes, heart disease, cancer, an eating disorder, tuberculosis, soft bones, brittle skin, deafness, tooth decay, etc.
We live in a world where people can be fine in one moment and go loony in another.
The fact he was the size of maybe not even a 5 month pregnancy when he came out 😢😢😢 so tiny and barely any skin 😢
If House was her doctor, he'll tell her point blank "you'll give birth to a dead baby"
Here's the thing if house was in any other medical drama the episodes would be a whole lot shorter
@@Boomerjojo79 but they would be really entertaining miniseries though
We need more doctors like House.
Yes, and he'll be right
😂😂😂
I feel bad for the child, especially at the end when she asked what were they putting in him. You know she will control that child's food till they are 18 and can get away from their mom.
Kiddos got a one-way ticket to disordered eating
Not unless the dad divorces her and takes the kid. Or the kid files for emancipation before 18. Or CPS is called on her for starving her kid.
Orr seeing her premature child with tubes manually feeding him may have given the mom a wake up call. She may not force her eating disorder on her child out of a newfound understanding.
@@alphaartistmsp2433 while a clear viable thing that can happen you’d be amazed the amount of people who don’t realize what they’re doing, there have been cases of moms hearing that and freaking out because they’re trying to kill their baby with that stuff.
Human stupidity never ceases to simultaneously amaze and disappoint me.
that's how my mother still is. and im 20 now
The fact that she thinks 700-800 calories a day is efficient for a mother and fetus is insane 😳
it's not even enough for a healthy toddler....
Im lucky to even eat 1600 a day and I'm not pregnant (gym rat)
700 is too little for a short and underweight woman with no activity. I’m short and underweight and my TDEE is 1300
that's like... what, 1/3rd of what is needed for a NORMAL adult that is NOT pregnant. If you have to then ALSO support the development and eventual feeding of a fetus.... yikes.
Yeah a pregnant woman should be consuming more then 2000 I think to compensate for the fact that she is growing another human being
Love how in the end the nurse said 'carbohydrates, protein, fats. He needs them to grow.' and just pointedly looked at her lol
Basically "feed your child, you fool!"
Isn't that the doctor, tho?
She's not a nurse, she the doctor that kept telling her she needed to feed her baby.
You know that mom was fuming
@@lildad559 I think it was a wakeup call for her. She needed to see what she was doing to her baby.
The fact that this woman thinks she knows more than the doctors is infuriating.
That's what bothers you here? Really?
Doesn't it remind you of other people in the real world? People who did their "research" on the internet on a specific medical issue that we just went through?
@@Gib01 I mean people are entitled to do whatever they want, can't force everyone to the same decisions
@@OpticHamster69 Opinions are not facts.
@@Gib01 I agree with this but you also have to remember even if the facts are what they are people choose not to follow factual guidelines. Its just how people work and nobody can force anything upon them if they choose to follow a pseudo-scientific route.
It’s sad that this mother had to physically watch her baby in tubes and IVs getting the proper nutrition in order for her to see what she was doing is harming her baby 😞
Except she didnt see that. She saw people giving her baby things she didnt approve of. Hence the question about what the baby was getting. The mom's mental state wasn't fixed by the c-section.
Nope, just as ridiculous and crazy. At least she’s killing herself and not the baby too.
@@sapphireriddles6692 exactly. her inability to produce breast milk will be blamed on the doctors too probably.
@@sapphireriddles6692 I'm so upset this episode didn't include Dr. Charles. Why would you have a mental illness case without the mental health doctor?
How about how it’s harming her! People don’t even think of women as people. It’s insane
This is one of those times when I wondered how Dr. House would have handled this couple
Selling small coffins?
@@ambrevigneron5911Yeah, he would lol, he would tell it to them straight
first of, would have been a consult, not a House worthy case. Seconds, he would have done as he always does in consult: tell her nuts or/and😅 tell Cuddy a baby is being starved
He wouldn't have.
He'd have given them some lecture, they'd leave the hospital, and nothing would change.
Because you cannot cure a mental illness with "tough love" or "telling it like it is."
The fact that the show House made it seem that way was always just Hollywood garbage.
"Teeny tiny coffins."
The worst part is that these parents think that they're actually helping their child, when they're just starving them
Death is better than any kind of life that woman could ever give them
Any parent who starts enforcing THEIR lifestyles onto a kid who really has no choice but to go along should really never be parents in the first place. They're the types who would rather kill their child than admit their beliefs aren't for correct.
Isn’t her body her choice?
@@yaima0901 you know that at 8 months and with the intent to keep the child, that is not longer just her body.
@@hasturthekinginyellow5003 hmmm but last I saw they want to sign a law that allows them to terminate pregnancy whenever they feel like it….
The saddest part of this is how real it is.
So often people pay for these specialists that really do not help, but rather hurt their baby.
@@mr_clean575 same i was very confused
I have high cholesterol ( possibly family history) my doctor didn't restrict anything. Just smaller amounts of bad and more of the good
@@samg873 thankfully you went to a real doctor and not a nutritionist! Nutritionists don’t have to have any actual qualifications and are more often than not scammy
@@jessicastar433 really? See I didn't know anyone can use nutritionist title
@@samg873 yes! Anyone can use it. They’re certainly not all bad but a lot of them are
A dietitian is an actual title that requires a certain amount of education
“She’s starving the baby to death” hit me so hard how could you be so cruel to starv YOUR OWN CHILD to death
she thinks she's not. She thinks she's protecting it and that doctors don't know much because that's what an alternative medicine practitioner has led her to believe
She thinks she's helping her baby and this sounds like an eating disorder a person like this would need mental help
My cousin was doing the same thing to her baby, only feeding her apple juice and barely enough formula. But it wasn't for health reasons. She said she didn't want to have a fat baby. Thank God the state took her into custody. Pretty sure my cousin is still in jail.
Maybe she secretly wants to abort it 😢
@@KendraGraceTNo, it’s clear that this her way of being protective, it’s just a behavior that’s ultimately harmful
A family friend just lost her baby at almost full term because she had severe body dysmorphia and barely ate, resulting in the baby being born at 3 pounds. So heartbreaking.
That’s so terrible. I’ll keep your friend and her baby in my prayers.
So this crazy mom is basically her?
That’s so sad
@@20PINKluvr the mom is not crazy just obsessed with care for her would've been baby and is scared
So sad. The little angel is in heaven. God bless.
I lost it at the part where the ultrasound damages the baby.
Those kind of people always amaze me.
Yes the ultrasound will effect the baby in horrific ways!
But under eating, when you're supposedly eating for two is completely rational and okay
Individuals who have decided to completely ignore established medical science shouldn't ever be taken seriously
@Mike Sixx It's because of the state of the world. With a rising distrust in news, politics, religion, schooling, police officers, doctors, and fire fighters. People in this day and age don't trust authority figures because all we see of them is being either corrupt or unable to do their job.
"KIDZ DONT BREATH IT CAUSES CANCER!"
@@charlierei9292But it’s ORGANIC 😝 😂
I was at my worst with my ED when I got pregnant… I didn’t believe I could get pregnant. And the day I found out, I started eating again. I’m very grateful that I was able to put the baby before those thoughts… this is heart wrenching
Literally my story. My son saved my life. ❤️
Yep
Same- I barely ate and was obsessed with my weight. But as soon as I got pregnant I started to eat healthy and made sure my baby would get the food to grow.
Same. Its a struggle but i eat at least 1k-1200 a day. I have to weigh backwards bc If i see the numbers i will cry
My son saved mine too, but from alcoholism. Not an ED by any means but I’m happy to say he helped me turn everything around. He’s 5 months old almost 6 and started solids.
There's a difference between being "confused" and being willfully ignorant. This woman will do anything (nutritionist, midwife) except listen to a doc.
There is also a difference between being willfully ignorant, and being delusional. She truly believed she was doing what was best for her and her baby. It's scary, but mental illness can do that to a person. It's the same way people will jump off buildings believing they can fly, nowhere in our society do we give any incling to that being possible, yet people will believe it when they are ill.
I was poisoned by a doctor and given incorrect antibiotics which caused me to need to go to the ER for a full week.. some nurses gir incorrect medications that are fatal... Some people are scared to trust doctors bc of personal experience... Is that a mental disorder ?
@@macie8571 This lady doesn't think the mother was mentally ill. Your experience is also a valid reason though.
@@macie8571 Dr's/nurses do make mistakes, it's not like they poisoned u on purpose and to distrust all Dr's bc of one experience is stupid. And her character never mentioned an experience like that, even her husband stated that she's always been off like that and it just got worse when she became pregnant.
@@byambrr we'll see how the COVID vaccines affect us years from now
They need to make her sign a waiver if she refuses treatment so they can't be held responsible.
However if a doctor did something behind my back without my permission I'd sue their asses.
Let the writers of this fictional TV show know.
@@GraceyManorsyup but knowing how the mother was acting, she would’ve tried to sue them for not helping her, at least in the way she was “ helping “ her baby.
There is something like that called an AMA form that patients sign when they are leaving the hospital against medical advice (AMA). Basically, by signing it, the patient acknowledges that they understand the risks and potential complications of not receiving treatment and desire to continue without treatment.
Freaking hate people like that
Deny help but then complain when things go bad.
Take her to Dr. House, he can explain to her how many funeral companies make a lot money by selling small coffins.
Amen!
Funeral company 😮😮what's that??
Because here in my country we have never heard these types of things!!
Works for mums who think breastmilk is all they need for the baby and not vaccines.
@@gumnaamhaikoyi_who wait, you don't have a funeral service? Then what you normally do when someone passed away?
@@gumnaamhaikoyi_who...so your country has no coffins or funerals? Cause those are organized by those "companies"
Feels like the patient had 1 consultation w/ a dietitian and just automatically assumed she knew everything she should give her baby.
Even worse, a nutritionist. Dietitians have actual credentials and certifications. Anyone can use the label of nutritionist.
It happens. The same with looking up what's wrong or could be. Drags you down a rabbit hole sometimes.
@@jenniferromero571 Oh, God, the number of people who try to self-diagnose over the internet without realizing that almost all of these medical sites are written by the insurance companies...
@@DigiDestined13 I feel like those medical sites being written by insurance companies isn't the problem- the problem is people who use those sites and when their symptoms point to (for the sake of this example) cancer they accept it's cancer, tell people they have cancer, but make zero attempts to see a doctor about their "cancer". Those websites can be useful but you still gotta go see professionals to confirm things.
No she had an eating disorder and it was later addressed. All of you guys are so terrible for having no empathy and judging this woman!!
As a pregnant momma who struggles with ED’s I am so glad I am able to force myself to eat well for my baby. It may not be the healthiest foods but I take my vitamins and she is healthy at 27 weeks 💕
@Xyz Xyz ED can come and go also the important thing is this person is conscious of what they have and are doing the best for herself and the baby in her belly I have ED too
Well done xx
Proud of you xx
@Xyz Xyz could have been an accident, or they could have gained it while pregnant. Especially with hormones running rampant, pregnant women can have a hard time eating because their senses are exponential. But I don't know their situation, ED can come from anything really or nothing. My ED came from anxiety 🤷♀️
Wish the best for you and your baby
600-800 calories for a pregnant mother is ridiculously low. And the fact that she isn't properly caring for herself is putting that baby in danger.
I've read that a woman in the third trimester needs 2400 calories per day.
The average calorie intake is 1400 calories for an individual who not pregnant!
But isn't she, like, roaring for food like most pregnant women ? It's hard not to eat waaay to much when you are expecting a baby
This is still a TV show
@@mjallen1308 yes but it's not very difficult to understand that we discuss this imagining that it happened IRL. Which is true. That explains the success of such TV show
These episodes that deal with patients who don’t like modern medicine and chose alternatives are very relevant. I love how they focus on real issues and do them well.
Propagandistic to boot
@@monk3110 Might need to google the meaning of propaganda, because starving your baby and being against that is quite a factual thing in medicine.
The patient clearly has orthorexia. Her unusual fear and paralysis of “impure food”, only eating 800 calories a day, it’s very blatantly a mental health issue and extreme health anxiety. I wouldn’t actually quality her in the “crazy alternative” realm, since organic fresh produce with low red meat intake isn’t an insane stance to have. Im vegetarian myself and prefer fresh produce over more processed foods, but the borderline is the obsession and anxiety around the food, alongside restriction and improper management of intake.
@@joelvr101 well yes she is the strawman
The fact these people exist make me wanna never go outside, how do such imbeciles exist
Interesting thing is that IV fluid is actually extremely healthy. It’s literally pure nutrients.
The stuff in the IV bag that Manning tried to give her contained glucose and amino acids aka the broken down components of carbohydrates and proteins. She was just worried because it looked scary because it was in a bag and not a whole food.
Tpn isn't pure, it's straight up chemicals and medications. It saves lives, sure. But it's not on any level "pure"
@@ry.butterfly chemicals are one of the purest forms of nutrients
@@ry.butterfly No, TPN stands for total parenteral nutrition. It consists of glucose, salts, amino acids, lipids, vitamins, and minerals.
@Justice237 I know what it stands for lol my comment still stands. There's a reason why TPN destroys the liver.
We need Dr. House in this situation
I have nothing against people's view but to force it upon a child who is not strong enough and needs other things is just wrong. Let them decide later on in life it that's what they want.
Exactly.
An eating disorder is not a normal condition for any pregnancy. And normally fertility is hindered by nutrient deprivation.
@@imadone Yes exactly!! I can't believe the show didn't even address her obvious eating disorder. No adult thinks 800 calories a day is ok during pregnancy. (Or at all, unless one is on a special diet under close doctor supervision)
Exactly!
@@imadone true, but women in concentration camps still got pregnant and delivered babies. It is a lot less likely, but not impossible.
"You dont get it" she said to the two EXPERIENCED doctors.
There’s nothing more dangerous than patients who thinks they know more than the doctors
My mom would do that with all my female doctors, and I lost several of them. She would argue based on something she read on Facebook or on a blog; I was absolutely humiliated and exhausted. I told her straight up, "I'm not gonna have that because I don't want to lose a doctor." It was a miracle she listened.
Hi gorgeous how are you doing today hope you have a great day and your family are doing well??
Sometimes doctors are wrong so
@@alexandramoyer8785 Doctors aren't perfect.
@@devinreis5811 no one is
The proof is literally the baby itself!!! she's supposed to be 8 months pregnant but her baby's size and growth is that of a 5 month old... The fact she ended up in the E.R and her body is practically failing due to being malnourished. I know this is a show but damn the anxiety 😭
This is why mothers always always always have to go to ultrasound. If she would see how small her baby is she would know soon enough that something is wrong (maybe it wouldn't change much but at least someone would already start to push on her getting better nutrition).
Even better mothers can have complications. My baby niece was doing great and then on 28th week they found on ultrasound too low flow in umbilical cord. They tried to fix it with magnesium, but after week at the hospital she had to go on C-section anyway (on last ultrasound she was barely moving even with glucose directly delivered through her mom's veins. And her stomach started to be a little bit too small). So born on 29th week. Long story short it saved her life. She had to overcome some complications but she is now almost 3 months old and at home. (and that's central Europe, by the way. In richer countries the chances of recovering are even better I assume)
I know people like this. They think they know better than anyone, to the point of stupidity.
This is why anxiety disorders are more serious than people think
This isn't an anxiety disorder, this is a type of eating disorder. Specifically a combination of restrictive food intake disorder and anorexia
@@royalrenegade788this case specifically has clear anxiety disorder symptoms. She’s not avoiding eating because of body dystrophies, she’s doing it because she’s anxious about her and her baby’s well being to an irrational degree
@@toffeefeathers It aligns with orthorexia, which is the unhealthy obsession of “healthy” living. She wants to be in control, in this case it isn’t necessarily body shape but it is physical health. Anxiety plays a role in it, but this is a classic presentation of an ED
@@royalrenegade788 I'm pretty sure there's overlap.
@@thepinkestpigglet7529This doesn’t fit the criteria of an anxiety disorder, but absolutely fits within body dysmorphic and eating disorders. The biggest clues are the fact that she says she and the baby “need” to have a restricted diet. While anxiety disorders can cause obsessive compulsions when compulsions are so heavily focused on diet and physical health they can only fit within a diagnosis of body dysmorphic and eating disorders.
That mother was almost me. I was very depressed while pregnant, became paranoid and developed the delusion that any doctor or healthcare worker was going to take my baby from me, or horrifically hurt us. So naturally with that fear I avoided prenatal care until I was 28weeks along. After telling my mom I was going to do an unassisted birth, my family helped me find a midwife I could trust, and I had a homebirth. Thank God I had an amazing midwife because I ended up hemorrhaging pretty bad. I was very fortunate that my son and I were healthy. I didn't receive mental health care until many months after. Now 6 years later and much professional help, I can see how I put us both in danger and how unwell I was. This is a very real topic. I know for me in the thick of it I truly couldn't understand what I was doing was dangerous, I absolutely believed I was doing what was best for my son and I.
Unfortunately about to get more common. With recent laws being passed after Roe vs Wade went down, many women are going to trust their doctors less.
I'm glad you recognized there was a problem and got help. Not many would do that. Proud of you 😊
@@ymi0613 Thank you, I appreciate your kind words. I wish I had gotten help sooner, but I will always be thankful my son was born healthy. ❤
I know I’m late, but wow I’m so sorry:( I can’t imagine the overwhelming fear. So glad for you that you got help though and congratulations on your healthy baby 💗
pregnancy can mess up our brains pretty bad 🥲
Last scene, she didn't ask if the baby is gonna live, just asking what are they putting in him.
She didn't learn her lesson, she doesn't care about health, she only cares what's "toxic"
Istg every food has toxins
Thing is, as someone with anxiety, I can empathize with her fears, but it's so scary that it can turn that bad for someone that it affects their own health. Mental health is no joke
Yeah i remember myself when i was pregnant and also postpartum… anxiety through the roof. Felt bad for the patient, her boyfriend should have set her straight. My husband protected me from my thoughts
@@simsandwins8998 I've heard terrible things about postpartum depression and such. I'm happy your husband was there to help you get through it. I wish you and your family the best!
@@kevinsundelin8639 thank you
It really is no joke. We need better mental health protections in society.
@@faristasairuv5143 I agree
The thing that horrifies me is even if this baby managed to survive infancy, they would be malnourished and would likely end up growing up with an eating disorder with a mother who had this level of paranoia and restriction around food. That's assuming she didn't lose custody all together when someone reported her for neglect due to starving her child.
I wonder why the midwife didn’t tell her to eat more, eat better, to take vitamins, that she and her baby were in danger? Couldn’t the midwife tell that the baby wasn’t developing correctly, even without a sonogram?(There are nurses who are also midwives as well, but every state has different requirements to be licensed, there are schools and graduate programs to become a midwife).
I wonder about the development of the baby, low birthweight, what neurological, developmental, and physical issues the baby could have that could impact walking, coordination, talking, speaking, learning, vision, hearing…. If she has the baby at home and there are complications during the birth, what then?
After the baby is born, what if she develops worse heart issues or other health issues and what if the baby needs medical attention? I sadly have a feeling that she won’t see an actual physician or cardiologist or other specialists later on to see about the other medical issues she has or could develop later on or take her the baby to see an actual pediatrician for checkups and if need be specialists like occupational, physical, and speech therapists or if the child has developmental, learning, and behavior issues.
@@hannahwigmidwife was probably encouraging the mother’s actions
@@hannahwig im sure she had different midwifes and kept pushing them away until she found one who cared more about money on her pocket than baby's safiety.
It’s the mother that has an eating disorder - orthorexia. The baby, assuming it gets enough nutrients to keep growing, would probably eat normally just as the dad does.
Grow up? They'll be lucky to reach five or six years old.
She and her baby could've starved to death, yet she refused help to the point it was live or die for the baby. That's outrageous.
They never considered a psych eval? Putting the husband in charge since she was nuts, and killing the baby?
There is no way this woman would be allowed to harm her baby like this in real life. It's odd this sloppy writing exists in the same fictional universe as Law & Order and Homicide LOTS
@@diosoth hospitals don't want to get sued.... forcing medical treatment (pregnant or not) can result in that
@@diosoth these episodes are taken heavily from actual medical cases, these things really do happen
@@diosoth so what would happen then?
@@diosoth actually it can and does. Its a result of my body my choice, the baby isn't a life yet legally in some states like California and New York. It's not just about what a law says but how it can be interpretted.
Ah, that’s what an eating disorder and a pregnancy together look like.
Yes very dangerous I battle with Ed and had to force myself to eat for my son. Sometimes I still have 2 and I only have a few weeks left. And in anxiety u get from seeing/hearing about baby's that were harmed or died do to bad food and it makes it so much worse.
This is why we need to have mental health resources available for everyone to be able to get help and prevent things like this from happening.
A ticking time bomb of anxiety and depression?
@@Aggression-hc3ypI mean those hormones do make you crazy. This chick clearly has multiple issues that’s what makes for a good show.
This is how crime looks like. Mental disorder is poor excuse for evil people.
While not included in the DSM, orthotexia is a regularly diagnosed "unspecified feeding or eating disorder," and is characterized by an extreme and dangerous obsession with conventionally "healthy" eating. It is serious, especially when it interferes with certain special nutritional requirements characteristic of pregnancy.
The fact she’s gonna get to go home and raise that baby after damn near killing him cause she’s got something wrong with her mind is scary
Hi gorgeous how are you doing today hope you have a great day and your family are doing well??
Genuinely, I'd be having regular visits from CPS or something to make sure the kids actually gaining weight, at least for a few months. No threats, just weigh ins.
I feel like there should be a mental disorder on vegans. I got a vegetarian cousin we get along fine how I’ve done plenty of people vegetarian. Vegans I can never associate or be friends with them. Such as I need to guys are used to work with not that I would bother even mentioning them. Those two were the definition of vegan psychos. Interestingly enough one of them will talk about conspiracy theories of how sugar is made along with many other crazy outrageous BS, conspiracy garbage. The other one was not only just vegan, but he was always showing up late for work and oh yes, to make it even interesting he actually was doing heroin. The problem with these people is that they exist to literally going cause harm to businesses and themselves, especially when they’re about to have children. I’d like to see them go to a village in Africa and tell them they got a start eating their way, then getting chased out.
@@monkeycat48I've met several of both, but only one vegan who was reasonable and not OCD in disguise.
I hope that cps got called in at some point afterwards
700-800 calories a day is not healthy for anyone pregnant or not!
Nope it’s not
How much calories are needed a day for a pregnant woman? 2,000 calories? 2,500?
@@Aggression-hc3yp At her stage in pregnancy, 2,400 calories. 1,800 for early stage.
@@fabplays6559 - Any less than the recommended amount is not a good thing for mother or child! Malnutrition is a serious health risk that affects many people who need to get more than a handful of food in them.
I know this is just a show, but anyone who intentionally starved themselves during pregnancy, does not deserve a child.
As someone in the medical field, this is so real and very frustrating. Unfortunately it is the patient’s call on any sort of procedures, so sometimes you do have to just sit and watch as they get worse. All you can do is provide them with the education. Whether they agree to follow through is ultimately up to them
I could never be a doctor or a nurse. I’d have no patience and little empathy for patients in cases like this. I’d end up like House except fired because he’s actually a terrible doctor despite his results. Good thing I have no interest in the medical field, for my own sanity and for the good of my would-be patients.
Unfortunately there's another side of this equation. So many doctors are only interested in following protocols and pushing pills instead of actually helping patients. It's just "oh, we'll watch it and give you even more drugs." I'd like it if my doctors were more interested in actually working with me instead of pushing drugs and hoping for the best. And sadly, it does make me anxious, paranoid, and unwilling to listen.
Dr House is the perfect doctor for such a situation
Ain't that the right would love to see that
I don’t know. He’d probably call her an idiot who’s murdering her child, and then that would just make her even more defensive
@@annataymond9529 Because it’s the truth. House doesn’t really care about anyone’s feelings, but he will emphasize with certain patients.
@@breecegriffith5896 yes but that would compromise the situation. If she got defensive she’d be less likely to listen to reason and wouldn’t feel like she was safe to agree to anything
Yup House is definitely needed here to call her an ignoramus
I knew a girl who actually did this, baby died due to malnourishment
Serves her right
How she react? She took responsibility or blamed everything else?
@@dreamcatcher6937 probably blamed the doctors
i hope she learned from this and if she gets pregnant again she'll actually do wants right and not act like this
@@nave712 what is wrong with you
Props to the actress who portrayed Julie. Amazing work of depicting anxiety and all those issues
What's worse is even after almost loosing her child she asked what they were putting in him. Which only shows how constricted he's going to be growing up, and how his life would of been depleted by having a mother who was so anxious and incompetent
I can't believe what she did was starving her unborn baby, and she was afraid of the ivy nutrition that would've helped her baby grow before it was born
I can't believe she did was start dactor hospital for a operation team good for a people who have a ambulance call the my home call my jobs
I can't believe she did was start dactor hospital for a operation team good for a people who have a ambulance call the my home call my jobs
@@yimwaili5425 what?
@@yimwaili5425 did you have a seizure on the recommendation keyboard
@@yimwaili5425 learn proper grammar
9:08 Jesus. Look at how malnourished that child is. The hospital needs to contact CPS ASAP!!!
You know it's just a show right??
@@cynthiayoung7733hahahahaha I’m laughing way to hard at your comment. I was thinking the exact same thing
@@TheCarlinCoopI just had to delete my comment because I was too
I like how the female doctor used personal experience to show the patient that she understood instead of trying to use science.
She was pregnant most of the first season so I was seriously wondering why she didn’t try to use her own experiences sooner to try to get the patient on her side
When I was a young teen, I babysat for a little one that a chiropractic "doctor" and his wife had. They measured each ounce she took in and she was like a little skeleton. As the mother had been chubby as a teen, they were determined their daughter would not get fat. I was instructed not to feed her anything but rice milk, cut up veggies and such. Here's the irony - 35 years later, said child is pudgy and looks happy! Oh,and the dad died at the age of 59. Just saying....I think you should feed and love on babies lavishly. Not sweets, but good nutrition and you cannot spoil a child by holding them, singing to them, etc.
Please don't mock the dad's profession, when it is those parents mental disorders that effected the care of their child. No chiropractic school, which is an actual school like med school, will teach that in health class. I work for one, and he teaches balanced proper nutrition and active fitness is how to be healthy, not teaching a kid to have eating disorders and body issues.
@@heathercontois4501 it's quackery it's not a real medical degree but a certificate with no oversight from a medical board or college. it's a scam
@@ayajade6683 actually, it requires a pre- med degree. Also extensive education in the health am function of the muscles, nervous system and skeletal system. It seems to me you met one of the ones who is just weird and practices improperly. Especially with he and his wife teaching their child how o have eating disorders.
@@heathercontois4501 i hear you, and let me open by saying I've seen a chiro numerous times who is fantastic, educated, and respectable.
However. The stigma against chiropractors doesnt come from nowhere. I knew one who claimed he could treat ADHD with periodic sessions involving a little drum set connected to an interactive video. It's been a while, but I think I heard him claim a couple times that after enough sessions, symptoms wouldn't return. Gullible people paid to have their child tap a plastic drum at the direction of a tv screen, so well persuaded they didnt realize the absurdity of the idea that playing, essentially, super slow guitar hero at most once a week was going to treat a mental disorder that is typically handled by pills you can tell the day of whether you took or not.
So, I think I understood OP's quotes around doctor. Chiros are chiros, not doctors. They're very good at what they do, but they shouldn't veer out of that lane, regardless of whether the temptation to do so might be ego or greed. The end result is bad for everyone.
@@sapphireriddles6692 Chiropractors are in the medical system as Doctors of Chiropractic-like every other kind of specialty. I do fully follow that they can have the same quacks and crazy practitioners as every other medical profession. It's just that with it being a specialty, it makes the stigma against it worse.
The fact that there's people like this in the world to base this off of is mind blowing
I bet House would have just gotten her a catalog for 'Baby caskets' and said:
''This is the next best advise I can give you. In this case, I bet you can get a really good '2 for 1' deal when both of you dies...''
That was right on point 😂😂😂
House? Is that you?
I read this in his voice 😆
@@tempestates13me too😂😂😂
House, use your real id
This is why a mother should be smart and open minded.
I understand the anxiety while pregnant. I had a completely healthy pregnancy with no issues or even family history of issues, but every single time I used to the bathroom I checked to make sure I wasn’t bleeding. I was terrified to the point of sweating at every appointment that they were gonna tell me they couldn’t find a heartbeat and I was going to have to deliver my dead baby. It was crippling. But, you cannot let your own fears take over. You have to be strong you have to be smart. It’s not about what you feel like doing anymore. It’s about doing what you have to do to protect the life and mind of your baby.
I'm currently pregnant and am going through the same thing. I hope you and your baby are doing great.
Im currently pregnant and feel similarly 😢 i try to distract myself but it comes back. Its heartbreaking.
If I had a partner who ended up starving our unborn baby to death, refusing to listen to the doctor, science and common sense I would leave her. And if the baby somehow survived I would still leave her and take full custody until she got the help she needed.
Good stand up for your child. Take care of your child safe
You are wonderful father to your child.
@@catladynikki2024 I’m a woman and thank you
A child shouldn’t have to suffer because of their parent’s stupidity.
Patient clearly has an eating disorder, but because she pretends to be "health conscious" they act like she's just overly concerned for the baby? such bullshit
Orthorexia
That's how orthorexia works. Her fears do come from a place of health consciousness, but it gets to where nothing is pure and healthy enough.
Just because you don’t understand something doesn’t mean it’s not genuine or that it’s bullshit
It's a SHOW
I'm looking @ her husband wondering how he finds her neurotic behavior attractive. How on earth did he get this scrawny woman pregnant?
I suffered from ED for a long time and I cried so much and was so worried about what would happen if I got pregnant, that I told myself I never wanted kids. Now that I’m married and really want kids in the future, this is my greatest fear. It is absolutely paralyzing to fear that you would be the cause of your own miscarriage
Since it seems you'd like to have kids, and are so aware of your struggles, surround yourself with a mental, birthing and nutrion medical team which will help you stay strong through pregnancy. 🤗
I know how you feel. Are you able to get therapy? Therapy can really help.
I had an extremely bad eating disorder when I was a teen/early adulthood. I was tormented my whole life by classmates and family over being fat and when I was 14 I swallowed a 500 count of Tylenol and at the time was so upset I woke up the next morning. So once that happened I turned to the whole ED.
Then I got pregnant unexpectedly, not trying, using 2 types of Birth Control, and I was in university. I didn't want a baby and I was so scared as I didn't find out I was pregnant until 11 1/2 weeks along.
What could I have done?
But my worry for my child and a very very strong doctor who told me I had two choices, to start eating properly or he was going to have me strapped to a bed and a feeding tube put through my nose.
It made me start to eat, it was very slow going and I will admit I had more months of weight loss then gain, but I was following the eating plans as best as I could. I was also cursed with Hyperemesis which caused me to puke right up until I delivered my baby!
But 19 years later, she is healthy, smart and had a very good relationship with food.
I do still struggle a lot, but after I had my daughter, I wanted to make sure she didn't go down the road I did, and I had to lead by example!
The point to my ramblings is, sometimes veing pregnant can have a more positive effect on you then this mom. It makes you go the opposite way and want what is best for your baby no matter what happens to you.
I'm sure you will be awesome and make the best choices for your family! And if you are still struggling, talk to someone about it. It isn't weak to reach out and ask for help!
Good luck!!
@@faristasairuv5143 I’ve made a lot of progress with counseling and medication. I gained healthy weight and my ED doesn’t control my life anymore like it used to. Im still a little tentative and have anxiety issues but I’m hoping I’ll be off medication in a year or so.
@@Nikki_81 that gives me a lot of hope. Im at a point now where Im fairly confident I would maintain a physically healthy pregnancy thankfully. My only worry is going back initially to my old habits and how the anxiety will affect me during the pregnancy. But I’m actively doing what I need to heal completely. It’s just that voice in the back of my mind that comes out every once in a while. I dont think that fear will ever go away but I’m lucky to have my husband by my side
i like the irony of how she tried so hard to make her baby natural as possible, yet he has to grow outside the womb being grown with formulas and science.
They should have been blunt. Tell her your baby was going to die so she would understand. That's what the ob said to my mum. He ordered complete bed rest but my mum thought she could still walk around, do chores and even go shopping for groceries. Then the doctor told her bluntly "Did you not hear what I just said? You are going straight to bed moving only to go to the bathroom. You are not permitted to walk at all. Or do you want to see your baby in an incubator? If she survives birth, of course." That's when she comprehended the seriousness of the situation. I still had to spend a month in the nicu but it was not related to that and I was delivered almost full term.
… a lot of stuff is wrong here.
- should have done a psych eval
- not broken patient trust or violated patient wishes (despite it being a good idea, objectively)
- spoken with hospital nutritionist or anyone in OBGYN to convince her
almost every episode there’s some egregious error that would result in loss of license.
Good job! However, this is a show.
@@bruh9977 yes, it’s a show, but if they’re gonna talk about and show things that are as common as instances like this, they can at least try to make it more accurate. The comment’s right, EVERYTHING there should have been done/not been done
@@averymoreland3081 Exactly, especially since this show has a psychiatrist as one of the main recurring characters. Why not bring him and at least do an eval?
The parity index is the worst mistake!! Gravida 0 para 1..😂😂😂😂😂
Well, it happened to me and nobody lost any license. I was straight delusional and paranoid, but I was treated like I was perfectly mentally healthy and allowed to keep on doing what I was doing. The only person who kinda tried to help was my mom. She convinced me to have a midwife attend my birth, thankfully as I did end up hemorrhaging. I didn't lose custody of my son, and I wasn't admitted to the psych ward. I only received professional help when my son was 8 months old. Looking back now it is really discouraging how many people, including healthcare professionals didn't care enough to actually get me help, or at minimum say something to me.
Those nurses were way nicer than I would’ve been like girl you’re killing your baby get it together
Yes, the random pregnant mother knows more about preserving life than MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS.
To seeing the baby in the incubator at the end made me think about how my parents must have felt cuz I was born 3 months premature with my twin brother, we stayed in the hospital for a good 3 months I can't imagine what that must have been like for my parents especially my mom.
Im a twin with a brother too. We were both 3 pounds and 2 months premature. I was in the nicu for a month, I can’t imagine how any parent would feel after hearing that they have to wait weeks until they can take their baby home with the fear of them not making it
I dont get why didnt they just outright tell her that her baby is being starved to death since she already knows that her 8 month pregnancy is the size of a 5 month pregnancy
They did. She just doesn’t care.
She is just crazy
I haven't seen this episode, but they should've called in Dr. Charles. Her wrong beliefs and desire for control really messed up her thinking, causing physical harm to herself and the baby.
Dr. Manning really does sacrifice everything for the health of her patients even if it gets into legal action.
More often than not said "legal" action goes nowhere and the most she gets is a slap on the wrist.
Gotta say, while I respect her intentions, it does get grating
Yep. Wildly unrealistic lol jeopardizes her license way too often
Her patient is the mother, this is nonsense. If it was another doctor, a non-feminist one it will make sense, but Dr Mannning is not supposed to belive that the fetus (no baby to starve) has any particular value besides the mother's desire.
That’s not a good thing. She has wrongly called cps on several patients and broke several laws. Even if she doesn’t agree as a doctor she has no right to do that IV. The doctors on this show are narcissist with a terrible god complex.
@@ashleysmith7632 Oh, I did not know that.
When you're pregnant, you have to eat well, possibly more, to help keep your unborn baby nourished. You're eating for 2 at that point.
well not for 2, but still.
That is wrong. You only need to eat at most an extra 300 calories a day at the end from what I remember. It's not a full human like you are and does not need nearly as much as you do.
A grown woman should be taking in 2500 calories a day, her being on 700-800 is anorexic status , and when pregnant the above comment is correct you only need to increase your diet by s few hundred calories to support the baby, women think eating for two is doubling your calorie intake but that can lead to extreme weight gain, gestational diabetes , fluid retention, diet is so important when pregnant
You are eating for two but should not eat as two. Healthy eating, not overeating.
@@wheelsndealz yes for two
Thinking about this and how she is acting when she’s pregnant, essentially killing her baby. I cannot imagine how she would theoretically be as a mother raising that child. It would probably be HORRIBLE for the kid. I mean, having a mom watch every move, probably not let you go outside, having anxiety over you for essentially no reason. She is the definition of overprotective parenting gone wrong.
IV fluid is like the healthiest food for the baby with no chewing necessary. All the nutrients the baby AND you need plus you just need batches and you two will be okay
People like her who think they know more than doctors irk me 😣
It's pride. It's Human nature to overreach, even with things like what we think we know.
Sometimes they are right I went to multiple doctors and payed lots of money only to tell me it was in my head when I knew for sure it wasn’t. So I did my own research came up with the conclusion saw another doctor and it turns out I had the same disease that has no cure. I was in debilitating pain everyday since I turned 13.
theres times when i can apreciate patients disagreeing but even then i generally dont disagree with the facts of the situation
my dr thinks i could maybe loose just a touch weight (im 105kg hed prefer i was closer to 80)
i disagree on the basis that im not gaining weight and have held this weight solid since i was 17 years old (im now 30)
my diet is not excessive and i am somewhat active i ride my ebike in pedal assist mode 20 miles a day (it actually counts its better than driving a car) and i often walk long distances with ease
and ive always been fairly physically fit i ran cross country for fun i was on the sprinting team and played rugby and am quite strong
ive chosen to not make any drastic changes to my diet as im already eating fairly well and if i loose the weight great if not i dont forsee it causing any major health negatives to me at this stage to warrant undergoing major diet or excercise changes
that being said i do not for one single second disagree with his opinion it would be optimal for me to be less over weight and there are some minor risks posed to me those are facts and i dont disagree with them nor do i think i know better than him
btw my daily caloric intake sits around 1000-1800 calories at best
It’s not pride, but fear. She’s scared and these doctors don’t consider her opinion. If she thinks the IV is bad they should try to educate her further and address her concerns, bring in a third party, or find a different alternative.
I had hyperemesis gravidarum (extreme morning sickness) during my pregnancy and could barely keep anything down for days at a time because of it, but i would still force myself to try to eat for myself & my baby. thankfully we’re both healthy and happy now ♥️
Congrats 🤭
Same for me as well.
Farm to table unborn baby line cracks me up the most 😂🤣
the thing is thats not even what farm to table is about
farm to table is about eating food at its freshest for flavour and some minor nutrient benefits
its no guarentee that theres no growth hormone or antibiotics or pesticides your eating
also it doesent even mean that the food goes direct from the farmers tractor to your table because most meat gets slaughtered at a slaughter house so theres a step and unless you driving your ass into the country every week your foods stopping off at a distrobution hub before it heads to whole foods
More like from womb to tomb.
@@lubystkaolamonola529 speed run life
@@lubystkaolamonola529 😂😂😂😂😂
Psychological disorders, mental health - to her this doesn't sound unnatural.
Oh man… the ending seeing the unnatural, unhealthy baby was so emotional.
When I was pregnant with my oldest daughter. I wasn't gaining much weight for the 1st 6 months and I was honestly terrified she was gonna come out very underweight. I managed to gained 30lbs within the last 3 months and she came out healthy. To see a mother only take in so little when pregnant thinking she's helping the baby is actually pretty heartbreaking
Thats where im at right now. Its scary that im barely gaining weight and im eating so much
@silvermist9924 I believe in you. I know it's scary, just keep doing the best you can.
My mother had to mix butter with water and drink it to make me and herself gain enough weight. I was born around 4 pounds, but still healthy apart from that.
I lost weight from the beginning didn’t even know I was pregnant until I was about 5 months. I gained weight at the end same about 30 but it was literally fluid ( I think I was going into preclampsia) I lost 20lbs in 3 days after birth and was back to normal in a month.
She must've lied to her midwife. Mine would've gutted me for eating 7-800 Cals a day, also without any protein.
Unless the midwife is one of the new age vegan food crazies themselves
The fact that there actually people out there like her is infuriating.
All over tiktok
@@Daydreamerr13not just them either to be honest their everywhere now because of incompetent people making people more and more scared of simple or safe things to the point so many health issues are on the rise
Orthorexia is a serious eating disorder that is not talked about often enough.
That mom and moms out there in real life need definitely more support especially for mental health, one can become so disillusioned with health and wellness that it sucks you in and you go mad questioning and distrusting everything.
And thus people fall into conspiracies and “health cults”…really scary how this is becoming a thing.
HOW DID THEY NOT COME UP WITH EATING DISORDER WHEN SHE NO THE SECOND TIME?!
The thing that worries me the most about the situation is that she is 100% not going to change once the kid is older. She is going to starve that child their entire life and give them a very unhealthy relationship with food.
Why didn’t they bring in the psychologist? This is clearly a psychological issue.
As someone who has a family member who is a psychiatrist, I can tell you that it wouldn’t have helped. The only way they could force her into medical treatment is to get a judge to declare her mentally incompetent, and she doesn’t meet that requirement.
She does need mental help, obviously, but that would take years of therapy, that’s not something a hospital can do.
Sad thing, I've seen a situation like this then the mother tried to sue the doctors for allowing her baby to die. Smh
Omg man wth
Honestly the conflict this woman has, to be so terrified of potentially contaminated food is very interesting. I can see this being a potential issue in the future.
The irony here is that IV bags are probably the most “pure” source of nutrition on the planet.
Me as her doctor would make absolute certain she’d never leave the hospital with that baby…she needs psychiatric help and hospitalization. Baby need to be in safe place.
In situations like these, the parents need help and education. And if that doesn't work you have to ask if the child will really be safe with the parents while they have this mindset
She has a midwife, how did the midwife not notice the problems???
It’s likely that her “midwife” is a naturopath or something, someone that is equally as scared of GMOs and processed foods and loves organic, that would affirm her beliefs.
@@Justice237 No a good naturopath would be very helpful.
@@barbarahollands6415 yeah no they're only good in wack-a-doodle circles they're quacks who 99% of the time should be charged with practicing medicine without a license
@@barbarahollands6415 perhaps she is a bad one
The issue is midwives don’t require the same amount of training, so while there are excellent, up to date, midwives out there, there are also, not so great ones.
As someone who suffered from ED and is pregnant and got HG and food aversions and acid reflux so bad my throat bleeds daily, I get the struggles of eating and giving proper nutrients to my baby. When I had my 20 week scan and was told he was on the small side, I pushed down all my worries about food and pushed myself to eat for my baby and he doubled in size in ten weeks. He’s perfectly healthy now and the perfect size for 37 weeks. I released a month ago and stopped eating again and ended up in hospital cos I was putting strain on baby and my body cos I wasn’t eating and drinking enough but I’m lucky my body fat kept him alive. I’ve lost more weight than I’ve gained and still under my pre pregnancy weight but thankfully baby is perfectly healthy and reaching the right weight and milestones
yikes on bikes
I'm glad you were strong and made the right decision for you and your baby. I hope you're both doing okay
@@LeoNunes-gy8iethank you. He’s a perfectly happy healthy one year old now. ❤
Got to love ppl like this that think they know more than the doctors,nurses that went to med school vs them using Google
Do you even understand how often doctors and nurses use Google every day to diagnose and treat patients??
Man I swear people just don’t know what their saying because doctors have gone almost 12 years of med school they know what there talking about leave it to the professionals don’t starve your baby that’s messed up!!!
Doctors also want to make their own lives simpler by following guidelines that other doctors also follow because other doctors follow to make a 9-5 simpler. When proven wrong they shrug it off and get back on board with what other doctors think to make their life simpler..
@@Bonesph your absolutely right about that!! :)
People in their right mind won’t but people with anorexia will and I wish people would have empathy
Not all parents deserve children ...
This is child abuse before the baby could even take its first breath. 😡
These are the moments that I wish there was a house in the room to tell them how crazy they sound for doing this to an innocent life. If you want to hurt yourself by not eating enough and giving yourself nutritional value that's fine on you but don't hurt someone else with your beliefs.
the best thing i can comment is that people need to remember that healthy foods/organic foods dont have anything to do with fat loss or gain & nutrition in terms of weight, muscle and body fat. you can eat "healthy" all day and still not lose weight or fat, because your calories are too high of healthy foods. the opposite is true, too. nutrition is about being healthy with micronutrients, vitamins and minerals AND in terms of weight and body fat %/lean muscle tissue.
This women is killing her baby by under feeding it. She is crazy.
It’s so frustrating that in one of the wealthiest countries in the world that people are so ignorant and susceptible to misinformation….like I know this is a fictional character but there are SO many women who are actually like this and it’s seriously scary that they’re raising children.
This makes me really sad as someone with HG pregnancy and a damaged stomach (and diabetes) I struggled to keep my baby alive to keep us fed and she was born really small luckily really healthy. We are now a year further and she is growing so well I am forever grateful to the doctors that helped me get through it
Leave the hospital if you’re gonna decline everything. Good luck on your own.
From what I've read before, being too obsessive with "clean eating" is also a from of eating disorder.
Ortorexia, an obsession with eating “pure” food. I don’t think it’s officially recognised yet as an official eating disorder but it’s being studied
So okay she wants to eat healthy and organic foods only. But why did she also throw in “portion control”, you don't need to portion healthy foods while you’re pregnant (unless doc recommends against it). Makes no sense cause the more nutrition the better. She also didn't answer when asked how many meals a day she eats 😬. Why are you surprised the doctors say you’re both malnourished when you’re 8 months pregnant looking like you weigh 100 lbs 🤦🏽♀️??
She just has an eating disorder.
Eating disorders mess with your thinking.
She obviously has anorexia. People with mental illness exist they aren’t stupid their judgment is clouded. Just have some empathy for people who are different than you.
I admit not all doctors are great but not all of them are wrong and this woman is an example of what happens when you believe most of the crap you see online and think you know better than a doctor