I believe your headline -- if they mentioned that the baby was 14m.o. --
would be almost as equated to lunacy for some as saying "vegan" baby.
Doctors & such read the word "vegan" as saying not enough protein, B12,
etc. and not enough calcium because humans aren't considered viable without
the milk of the cow. Human milk at this point is not considered in their
minds as a source of protein or other nutrition -- after all, it's only
water after 6 months (as a dentist reminded a local mom just last week).

I do know that the father had many articles posted on his website about how
to obtain proper folic acid, iron, B12, protein, fatty acid balances etc.
in a vegan diet, and held discussions about such, and thus assume that they
practiced this.

A couple of years ago there was a very unfortunate story in New York as
well, I believe, where a "vegan" family gave their newborn no formula and
no breastmilk, rather they fed him some inadequate concoction -- not a
practice condoned by any vegans I know. The headlines were equivalent to
vegans are baby-killers -- and this family practically was. I'm sure that's
quite prevalent in the minds of the doctors and local officials.

"Radical" me can so feel for the family. I wish I could only describe to
you how doctors and family treated me when I discovered that my
breastfeeding son was intolerant to the cow's milk in my diet and I decided
not only to continue breastfeeding him with total malnourishment for myself
(i.e. no cow's milk) but that I refused to acknowledge that "a little
vomitting and diarrhea" were no reason to deprive him of the "intensly
valuable nutrition" necessary from cow's milk in order to grow up healthy
after 6 months.

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