Midwife given suspended jail sentence after nearly starving her baby to death
Midwife given suspended jail sentence after nearly starving her baby to death
Her baby boy had been vomiting for up to a week, had sunken eyes and was hardly moving when a mother finally decided to take him to a Sydney hospital.
And it was not a moment too soon as police say the eight-month-old was just days away from death.
It was later discovered the mother, 33, who is also a maternity ward nurse, was practising a raw food diet and fasting which almost caused her breastfeeding baby to starve to death.
But she had only decided to go on the strict diet allegedly on the advice of Leppington naturopath Marilyn Bodnar, 60.
Midwife given suspended jail sentence after nearly starving her baby to death
Her baby boy had been vomiting for up to a week, had sunken eyes and was hardly moving when a mother finally decided to take him to a Sydney hospital.
And it was not a moment too soon as police say the eight-month-old was just days away from death.
It was later discovered the mother, 33, who is also a maternity ward nurse, was practising a raw food diet and fasting which almost caused her breastfeeding baby to starve to death.
But she had only decided to go on the strict diet allegedly on the advice of Leppington naturopath Marilyn Bodnar, 60.