Breatharian pregnancy?

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Surely, these should warrant some serious types of social service input, yes?

I imagine the women will get very ill before the fetus is affected.

And no, SS input for pregnancies are a slippery slope, no matter what idiocy someone is engaged in.

Never heard of this so I googled. Of yore talking about the couple with 2 kids who come up on the first hit I call absolute BS. They might say they're not eating but they look very well fed and healthy.

I had to look it up to see what it was. How do these people suevive? I'm the last person to judge anyone else's diet- I'm vegan- but wtaf?

Not really sure why it's the default position of so many people to think SS should be the answer to everything. There's other professionals who could better advise and support someone over this initially before it would ever need to come to SS attention

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If she's the woman in she doesn't look like she's malnourished!

Surely she's eating something?!

Do they feed their kids?

California Fair play - but wouldn't it be akin to starving your child? It is in my eyes at least.

Yes - the family with the two kids came up first for me when I just googled (overheard it being discussed).

I would probably kill someone if I ever attempted this for any length of time; I am feral when hungry.

She didn't ditch food though if she was eating broth and fruit three times a week...? If that was truly all they were eating surely they'd be emaciated?

They both look a healthy weight.....I'm confused...

It is absolutely not akin to starving your child. Unless you're a pro-forced-birther. Are you?

Breatharian diets aren't entirely food free. People will eat 3-4 times a week and take daily multivitamins - most breatharians drink water everyday. A pregnancy would be ok because most breatharians get enough food for the fetus to survive (though many women get v sick).

Was there a programme about it?

Why on earth would social services need to be involved because a strange couple like to tell lies to people via the media?

Groupie Ah, this woman was saying she only ate a handful of times during her pregnancy... That's why I was taken back by it (I thought she only had the broth / soup a handful of times).

I am not a pro-forced birther, no. I do however think ensuring a fetus receives adequate nutrition is vital, and research as shown that even the diet in the three months before conception impacts the health of the baby and child.

Fair play - but wouldn't it be akin to starving your child? It is in my eyes at least

Idk enough about this particular diet to know if that would be the case or not. But I would just say there are many other professionals better placed than a likely confrontational SW to advise the mother and get her any appropriate support eg midwife, dietician etc, with out things ever having to get hostile or the resentment set in which they inevitably would.

She's lying, OP. Breatharians base their diet off an old Hindu/Jain idea that you don't need food and water everyday & that having it everyday means you get disconnected to your soul. My gran used to do this and would only eat (and drink) every other day or sometime she'd drink everyday but only eat every 2-3 days - but most breatharians don't go that extreme.

Dunno. Slippery slope. People take drugs, smoke nad drink alcohol during PG.

My gran was always overweight - on the days she ate, she ATE. Lol

I don't believe them. How come others die of starvation yet they don't? Utter bollocks.

Was this on This Morning or a documentary about it?

"in this process, during the first seven days nothing is consumed, except air, the next seven days some water and diluted juice, and the last seven days diluted juice and water."

Might just be my weakness from hunger but how are the middle seven days different from the last seven days.
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