Mom Gets Criticized Over Son’s Zombie Cake Photo Shoot, Reveals The Heartbreaking Secret Behind It
Little Phoenix celebrated his first birthday smiling in front of the camera during a zombie-themed photoshoot. When his mom shared it online, however, the internet wasn’t smiling at all. Australian mother Amy Louise has received a huge wave of backlash for organizing her toddler such a “disgusting,” “morbid,” and “offensive” experience. In response, she shared the story behind it, and it’s so heartbreaking, it will silence all of her haters.
At first, Amy was removed from Facebook mom groups. “I knew it would happen but the extent of it really shocked me,” she told Daily Mail. “I got told I was a bad mother, that I was going to damage his mental health, that I would make him sick eating that cake off the dirt.”
But you see, Phoenix entered this world without a heartbeat. “From the time the doctors told me my placenta had detached and there was no heartbeat, to the time they cut him out was such a whirlwind of emotion,” she said. “I remember feeling terrified but still hopeful. Even though they had said “get her down to theatre right now the baby has no heartbeat” I thought, this kind of stuff happens all the time. But when they took him out and there was no cry, my heart just sank. It wasn’t a sad feeling, it was anger.”
The young mother and her fiance Gary Wilkinson were convinced their baby son had died. But not everyone lost hope. “The doctor squeezed my hand to try and show his emotion but it was a mess. It was awful. I just kept seeing this tiny white coffin flashing through my mind as I started to process what had just happen.”
Baby Phoenix proved to be a real fighter. He was brought back to life on October 31, on Halloween. “It was the longest and most awful 13 minutes of my life,” Amy said. “When I held him for the first time, the world disappeared.”
“What better than a zombie-themed cake smash for the tiny baby boy who was pronounced dead and then miraculously came to life on Halloween,” she wondered.
More info: aqphotography.com.au
Amy Louise has received a huge wave of backlash for organizing her toddler a “sickening” zombie-cake photoshoot
Image credits: Amanda Queen Photography
In response, she shared the story behind it, and it’s so heartbreaking, it will silence all of her haters
Baby Phoenix entered this world without a heartbeat
Image credits: Amanda Queen Photography
“From the time the doctors told me my placenta had detached and there was no heartbeat, to the time they cut him out was such a whirlwind of emotion”
Image credits: Amanda Queen Photography
“I knew he was dead I knew he was gone”
Image credits: Amanda Queen Photography
But then the impossible happened and Phoenix came back to life after the longest 13 minutes in Amy’s life
Image credits: Amanda Queen Photography
“What better than a zombie-themed cake smash for the tiny baby boy who was pronounced dead and then miraculously came to life on Halloween”
Image credits: Amanda Queen Photography
I think it's vile, disgusting and ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE. People need to stop being offended about every little thing. People with fragile emotions are a result of all the coddling. Get over it and learn how to smile and laugh at yourself again, geebus.
Exactly. It's painful to see how harsh people with an underdeveloped sense of humor can judge.
Load More Replies...He will probably love these pictures when he's older. Wishing death on someone's child makes them the bad person, not the parent of this fighting boy! Just look at how much fun he's having.
I know... I can't believe someone was able to wish that on anyone, especially from one mother to another.
Load More Replies...Fitting name. Rises from the ashes. Also I wish people didn't make snap judgements. At least of the bad kind
Exactly ! The name says the whole story in just one word!
Load More Replies...“...because maybe you would know how this feels.” How what feels? To have your baby eat a brain cake? I don’t understand what that person is getting at. Was her kid a REAL zombie and little Phoenix is rubbing salt in the wound? Will someone explain this to me?
Even without the backstory - who the f*ck cares so much about these pictures to create an internet outrage?? The pics are fantastic and the kids seems to have a ball. And it's actually healthy for the immunesystem to play in the dirt (and, yes, ingest some of it, too.) People are such morons... -_-
"And it's actually healthy for the immunesystem to play in the dirt (and, yes, ingest some of it, too.)" I didn't know that, and I thought I had the world figured out sobbing
Load More Replies...How are you (not YOU the all encompassing "you") going to tell a mother that you wish her baby had died so she could experience loss?????? And then they have the nerve to call HER disgusting and vile! These people need a lesson in common human decency and not being hurtful pricks!! I just cannot imagine EVER telling a mother I wished her child died so she could experience loss... I'm sorry that one got me and it really makes me mad that people say those things and really freaking mean it!!!
a little dirt, in the first world, won't hurt him. it may even do him some good. it might help prevent food allergies. it might not, but as i said it won't hurt him.
It not just “may“ do him some good, it has been scientifically proven that it does a lot of good.
Load More Replies...People are idiots. Ignore them and raise your kid. This was a very cool idea too. Zombie themed birthday parties in the future too.
Does anyone seriously believe, that this toddler had any idea about what that cake actually looks like? Or that he is imitating eating another person? Gosh no! For him, it's a red cake, end of story. Not to mention, how many imitating and playing something like this does not make any damage, because it's a game, and yes, kids can make a difference.
So... they're calling her vile and disgusting for doing an innocent themed photoshoot with her kid, yet someone wished death upon her kid so she could feel what loss is... Maybe people should stop feeling so attacked by everything. Not everything is about you or even targetting you or anything that happened to you in your life.
I think it's vile, disgusting and ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE. People need to stop being offended about every little thing. People with fragile emotions are a result of all the coddling. Get over it and learn how to smile and laugh at yourself again, geebus.
Exactly. It's painful to see how harsh people with an underdeveloped sense of humor can judge.
Load More Replies...He will probably love these pictures when he's older. Wishing death on someone's child makes them the bad person, not the parent of this fighting boy! Just look at how much fun he's having.
I know... I can't believe someone was able to wish that on anyone, especially from one mother to another.
Load More Replies...Fitting name. Rises from the ashes. Also I wish people didn't make snap judgements. At least of the bad kind
Exactly ! The name says the whole story in just one word!
Load More Replies...“...because maybe you would know how this feels.” How what feels? To have your baby eat a brain cake? I don’t understand what that person is getting at. Was her kid a REAL zombie and little Phoenix is rubbing salt in the wound? Will someone explain this to me?
Even without the backstory - who the f*ck cares so much about these pictures to create an internet outrage?? The pics are fantastic and the kids seems to have a ball. And it's actually healthy for the immunesystem to play in the dirt (and, yes, ingest some of it, too.) People are such morons... -_-
"And it's actually healthy for the immunesystem to play in the dirt (and, yes, ingest some of it, too.)" I didn't know that, and I thought I had the world figured out sobbing
Load More Replies...How are you (not YOU the all encompassing "you") going to tell a mother that you wish her baby had died so she could experience loss?????? And then they have the nerve to call HER disgusting and vile! These people need a lesson in common human decency and not being hurtful pricks!! I just cannot imagine EVER telling a mother I wished her child died so she could experience loss... I'm sorry that one got me and it really makes me mad that people say those things and really freaking mean it!!!
a little dirt, in the first world, won't hurt him. it may even do him some good. it might help prevent food allergies. it might not, but as i said it won't hurt him.
It not just “may“ do him some good, it has been scientifically proven that it does a lot of good.
Load More Replies...People are idiots. Ignore them and raise your kid. This was a very cool idea too. Zombie themed birthday parties in the future too.
Does anyone seriously believe, that this toddler had any idea about what that cake actually looks like? Or that he is imitating eating another person? Gosh no! For him, it's a red cake, end of story. Not to mention, how many imitating and playing something like this does not make any damage, because it's a game, and yes, kids can make a difference.
So... they're calling her vile and disgusting for doing an innocent themed photoshoot with her kid, yet someone wished death upon her kid so she could feel what loss is... Maybe people should stop feeling so attacked by everything. Not everything is about you or even targetting you or anything that happened to you in your life.











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