Emily Duprie
A dad went viral on the SubReddit “AITA” for snitching on his wife in front of their doctor after concerns about his wife feeding their baby bad foods. I suppose ‘snitching’ doesn’t quite encapsulate just how serious the matter was. This mother was feeding her 2-month-old baby foods such as oatmeal, potatoes, and fruits, instead of the required formula that babies need for healthy growth.
The story got quite a bit of feedback from the Reddit community. Read it below to decide for yourself if this father went about talking to his doctor in the right way.
Concerned for his baby’s health, OP asked Reddit: “AITA for saying things my wife gives our infant in front of our child’s doctor?”
My wife and I have a 2 month old daughter. For the past month she’s been feeding our baby mashed potatoes, applesauce, sweet tea, assorted fruit juices and other things.
Well, that’s the quickest red flag I have ever seen. For those who don’t know, though everyone should, babies can’t even have water until they are 6 months old. For the mother to feed this 2-month-old an entire Thanksgiving feast is already attempted murder.
OP explained that his doctor had already told the two of them to only feed their baby formula and nothing else.
The last time we went to the doctor, our pediatrician told us to not give her anything but formula until she was between 4-6 months old. My wife does not care and says she knows best for our child and our doctor isn’t the parent.
Since OP’s wife has much more knowledge than the doctor who went to 11+ years of schooling, she decided it was fine to feed her baby whatever she wanted.
Our daughter is always constipated and screams for hours at night that my wife says Is “colic” I’ve asked her numerous times to stop feeding our infant table food and go back to giving her formula. She is only feeding her one or two bottles of formula while I’m at work.
The other morning she was cooking scrambled eggs and oatmeal and I was off work so I started to make our daughter a bottle and feed her and she stopped me and told me not to fill her up with that and she wanted her to eat her oatmeal first. I fed her the bottle anyway after a huge argument.
After realizing that his baby’s stomach issues were most likely from what the mother had been feeding her, concerned OP confronted his wife before leaving for work one day. She once again insisted that “mother knows best,” and the dad realized he might need to speak up at their next doctor’s appointment.
Well baby had a doctors appointment and my wife was talking about the colic and screaming fits and when the doctor asked what she was feeding her she only said “formula” nothing else. I was angry because she lied and told her the pediatrician every single thing that she had been giving her and the doctor strongly recommended her to stop and that she was causing stomach upset and more than likely the reason for all her stomach issues.
The doctor’s face when he heard the truth:
Instead of being apologetic for this, my wife is mad at me and told me I “ratted” her out to the doctor and that she doesn’t have to listen to her and that it’s only a recommendation and that I made her look like a bad parent. I tell her what a selfish little twat she was being and now she wants me to go stay with my parents until she forgives me and asks me to come home.
AITA here? Maybe I shouldn’t have flew mad at her and said some things I did. Maybe I should apologize to my wife.
Obviously, there’s a lot to unpack here…
Not only is it seriously disturbing that the mother seems to be intentionally harming their baby, but it raises concerns for the mental state of the mother as well. Some Redditors who saw the post mentioned Munchausen and the similar case of Gypsy Rose and Dee Dee Blanchard. Others brought up post-partum depression and the effects it can have on new mothers. Regardless of the mother’s condition, it was good that the concerned dad was able to talk to the doctor and open that can of worms before things got seriously bad.
Most agreed that OP was “not the a-hole” in this situation. When it comes to sticking up for poisoned babies, Redditors don’t take it lightly.
