Sunday, 10 May 2009
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Overweight Mother Feeds Infants Junk Food
by Mama Fox I stumbled upon article this morning and what I read shocked me. This woman needs to have a swift kick in the ass for being a moron and a good slap of common sense.
Leanne Salt, a 24 year old mother in the UK, after making history being the fattest mother ever of triplets and currently at 420lbs, is insuring that her infant children will follow her same path. The babies each consume around 1,249 calories a day, nearly double the recommended 765 for their 17lb weight at the age of eight months.
She blames a thyroid problem on her weight although she smokes 10 cigarettes a day and consumes 50% more calories than a woman's recommended daily diet, snacking on cakes, chips and chocolate. She also believes that health food and watching what you eat will lead to anorexia.
Living with her mother and brother and on government assistance, she says she is too busy (doing what? It doesn't say, beyond the fact that she doesn't work...) to prepare proper meals for her triplets or do much in the way of housework. The house is full of unwashed laundry and piles of toys, and Miss Salt says she and her babies only get dressed and go out once a week to collect her benefits.
''Babies are always hungry,' Leanne said. 'Sometimes it's easier to give them food that's already prepared. Anyway, they don't always have junk food - sometimes I cook a microwave meal for them. My babies are healthy. I feed my babies vegetables every Sunday, and a lot of the baby food I give them has fruit in it. The health visitor told me off for giving them Smash because it has too much salt in, but it's difficult to know what to feed them sometimes.'
While the triplets' weight is currently normal for their age, they were born five weeks premature so have had a lot of catching up to do, and doctors say their diet is totally unsuitable.'These children are at extreme risk of becoming overweight in the near future if their diet continues in this way.' said Dr Pyusha Kapila of St John and St Elizabeth Hospital, London.
And Leanne now wants her own council house (which is the UK version of Section 8): 'I know how to microwave a meal and make up instant mash, so I think we'd all manage.'
You can read the appalling article in its entirety here
I just don't understand. She has doctors telling her left and right that this is wrong yet she continues to do it. She gave the babies McDonald's at 6 month old! She admits to chewing up food first so they can manage. Um, if you have to prechew the food, that should send up a red flag that maybe they shouldn't be eating it! And then she does an interview for a newspaper admitting to being stupid.
And vegetables every Sunday? Wow.
I have no compassion for people eating themselves to death but I am beyond angry that she is doing this to her children. These poor babies need a mother who will love them, take care of them and feed them right! I fully believe that this is child abuse. And of course she is not alone, a recent survey by the Infant and Toddler Forum found 29% of children under the age of three ate a takeaway at least once a week, while 23 per cent eat crisps and 16% drink fizzy drinks almost every day."
Another article I have dug up, about the birth of the triplets has Leanne saying that she is going on a special diet after the birth. "Having these babies is going to be a big turning point in my life. I would like to lose some weight if I'm going to run around after my triplets. I've got to do it for them. It's a miracle we're all alive."
So she fell off that diet wagon in less than 6 months, if she ever went on it in the first place. Sure it's hard but she has her mother at least trying to help and obviously doctors and social workers trying to help her but you can't help those who won't help themselves. And she's dragging her babies down with her.What do you think about what this mother is doing to her kids?
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Comments (102)
I think it is just plain wrong.
Thats horrible!
I've always said that parents that feed their children like this is child abuse. She should have her children taken away and should be sent to jail.
That is...they should take those poor children away from her, before they end up 500 pounds like their mama. Poor babies...
I don't think that she really deserves to have those kids. Also I've heard that some baby foods are actually worse than junk food. You have to have vegetables more than once a week, that doesn't make up for all the junk they eat during the week.
They should be given a chance to have a better life than that. I understsand that they need a special diet but I'm sure that's a healthy diet not one filled with sugary sweets.
I can't throw stones. Though I am not over weight and am near perfect weight. I eat horrible. For breakfast I had a no sugar added banana nut bread and an americano. For lunch I had a triple burger, cheese fries, and a diet coke. I snacked on a peanut butter sandwich and left overs, and for super I ate Pizza hut lasgna and bread sticks.
I hate myself that I don't eat better.
I blame myself for being too lazy to think ahead and change my life style. You'd think the health issues I have would be enough to scare me into being a radical vegitarian. Tomorrow, huh?
This trains them to eat poorly. Poor little things are going to be diabetic.
okay, someone should start slapping A LOT of sense into her fat head
Thats horrible
I couldn't care less about her. But if everyone in her life is telling her to shape up for the kids and she's not, that is unforgivable.
Those poor babies, this almost sounds like a joke. I mean if it was, it would be funny but it isn't so it's really just sad. I can't help but feel disgusted when I read what she says she's feeding them.
This is wrong. She should have the children taken away and placed in a home that can give them a healthy diet and a responsible and normal view of food. That is NOT a suitable environment for kids to be raised.
Why haven't they been placed in a foster home so the mom can get help! She might not be abusing them in the physical sense but if they keep going down this road those kids are going to have a lot of problems!
I think this is child abuse, and that her children should be taken away and she should be charged. I understand that not everyone is educated on health and nutrition, but chewing up McDonald's and feeding it to your children?! Not to mention, how does she not have time to prepare them a healthy meal but she has time to go get fast food, chew it up, and feed it to each child?
It's not fair to a child to have their chances of being healthy ruined that early in life.
I think it should be considered abuse. As a parent, you are responsible for making safe and healthy choices for your children because they cannot do it for themselves. What she is doing is not safe or healthy, and it will lead to a lifetime of problems for those children. They should be removed from the home and put into the care of someone who is capable of being a responsible parent. She is an unfit mother.
I don't even know what to say. She looks like she's almost 40. ugh... that's horrendous.
@mr_faust@xanga - @Nope_Ive_Never@xanga - @Kristenmomof3@xanga - @IamKelleyK@xanga - I agree. D<!!
If she wants to eat unhealthy and make poor health choices.. Fine, but she is dragging her children down with her.
It IS abuse. She is harming their body and their health making them eat that crap. how awful. Poor children.
You can't legislate intelligence. Unfortunately, you can't stop stupid people from breeding, either.
The best thing for these kids would be for them to be taken away from their mother. Feeding them nothing but crap is a form of neglect, and I'm surprised the authorities haven't stepped in already.
That's disgusting and irresponsible. Children should not be subject to abuse and neglect of that sort. It's one thing if she's making decisions like that for herself, but it's completely wrong for her to force her children to be just as unhealthy.
It's not just the food. If she's not cleaning them, not washing their clothes, not providing a sanitary environment, AND not feeding them properly, THAT is, at the very least, neglect -- if not full abuse. She's failing to meet their basic needs for shelter, clothing, and nutrition (not just food). That's textbook neglect.
So sad...those poor babies.
She's setting her children up for failure. If she has the money to buy better food, or even the common sense to give them smaller portions, she's completely at fault. I can understand how families living underneath or around the poverty line need to resort to fast food - that's an socio-economic issue, not a parenting one. But her perception of the media is off base, and her not listening to medical experts is infuriating.
This woman is a sad example of the human brain, and it's a shame that these beautiful children are going to have to pay for it. [Who reproduced with her, anyways!?]
If only the UK had DYFS.
Martha
I think she should lose her kids. It's child endangerment. I'm sure that they also follow in her footsteps when it comes to exercising, too. She probably just plunks them in front of the tv. It's horrible.