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.
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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.
I think what that person said, the one who wished her son was dead, was an exponential million times more vile and disgusting than this photo shoot. Seriously, how can someone so self-righteously be so immoral. It's like Manu Chao sings, "too much too much morality can drive to criminality".
So what if he got a Zombie cake for his birthday. I've known kids who got really cute birthday cakes as kids - and they still grew up to be rapists and murderers. It's what you teach your kids that matter.
Agreed. Of course it's vile and disgusting. Just like any one year old kid that's turned loose on a cake.
and there's a good chance the kid's gonna try to eat dirt in some time of their life, it's just what kids do
I was having that same thought. Those parents had the easiest cleanup because they could have left the cake "remains" in the woods, compared to most parents who are cleaning it off walls, pets, and every surface within a half-mile radius.
When I was growing up, there was something called "growing some thick skin" so you didn't spend your life being upset and/or offended. I miss hearing that phrase sometimes.
everyone has forgotten how to walk away from things they don't like or agree with and instead think they need to tell everyone just how much they don't like it.
I agree. I grew up tough. My parents were only prepared for one child. My twin and I were unexpected. At the age of 1 week they put both of us and a raccoon in a trash can for 24 hours. At the end of it I emerged victorious, the raccoon and my twin both having been killed and partially eaten by me. Now, nothing offends me.
Probably not. Those parents would be sentenced for life and this person at a week old could not kill a raccoon and eaten both twin and raccoon. This would be very rare.
😂😂😂😂
One week old? Sounds far fetched. It was probably 1 1/2 or 2 weeks.
Is that true?
It's the same as it always was: there was always a bunch of people who are easily offended. Sometimes, people forget that it's much easier to communicate to the world at large via social media now. Before, when people where so easily offended, they could only vent it to the circle of people around them.
Hey she isn't abusing her kid and isn't creating a monster (a bully or an abuser) so why focus on something SO GODDAMN TRIVIAL? The internet is full of policers who are more interested in controlling other people than actually living their lives.
I wish I could give this comment 5 upvotes because it's perfect!
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A picture of a baby eating brains with blood and flesh everywhere is not “every little thing”
As if that baby has any remote idea of what he's eating other than it's messy and it tastes good...
It's makeup and pastry and red-colored icing. They took their emotions from a frightening event and turned it into something fun. If you look at the origins of Halloween traditions, you'll find that this celebration is very much in keeping with them. Just because a child had a rocky beginning is no reason not to have fun now!
Just because YOU don't like it doesn't mean no one can do it/have it/whatEVER it. Get over yourself, the world does not revolve around you.
Um you do realize those aren't real brains right.... it's not like the woman killed someone or went to a morgue or anything it's all fake....I know, I know everything in the internet is real but this one thing isn't so your argument is invalid
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.
I totally agree with you. It's all innocent fun. Everyone defines fun in their own way: for some it's watching paint dry, bird watching - those are boring to me. The a,aging thing is, the ones who safeguard and shelter their kids end up either constantly bailing their kids out of the penile system often, identifying their bodies in a morgue or paying monthly for someone to listen to them while they tell their lives from a couch in an office. Also, I have friends who kids ate their chicken that fell on the floor, the parents just picked it up, dusted it off and gave it right back. Kids are healthy adults to date (and that was back in 1990). So I'd say, keep make you son happy they way you choose hun. Don't let these wet socks drench your fun.
"Don't let these wet socks drench your fun." I'm going to need to steal this :)
yes at his coming of age this is what mothers bring out
I would rather have baby pics of me like this, than the naked-sitting-on-the-toilet ones my mom aways pulled out to show off! LOL
True and probably tell his friends how cool his mom is! You can see in his eyes how loved and how loving this child actually is!
I would say that wishing death on someone's child clearly makes the one doing the wishing the bad person.
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!
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Her story is amazing and touching for sure, but the way she chose to memorialize it is pretty disgusting. Zombies are flesh eating walking dead maniacs. They don’t exactly scream triumph of life over death! I think she also did this for the shock value. It’s sad but u can neve underestimate what people are willing to do these days (even with tier kids) just to go viral.
You know what else zombies are? Fictional.
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Ugh! I meant “their kids”.....damn auto correct.
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.
I think what that person said, the one who wished her son was dead, was an exponential million times more vile and disgusting than this photo shoot. Seriously, how can someone so self-righteously be so immoral. It's like Manu Chao sings, "too much too much morality can drive to criminality".
So what if he got a Zombie cake for his birthday. I've known kids who got really cute birthday cakes as kids - and they still grew up to be rapists and murderers. It's what you teach your kids that matter.
Agreed. Of course it's vile and disgusting. Just like any one year old kid that's turned loose on a cake.
and there's a good chance the kid's gonna try to eat dirt in some time of their life, it's just what kids do
I was having that same thought. Those parents had the easiest cleanup because they could have left the cake "remains" in the woods, compared to most parents who are cleaning it off walls, pets, and every surface within a half-mile radius.
When I was growing up, there was something called "growing some thick skin" so you didn't spend your life being upset and/or offended. I miss hearing that phrase sometimes.
everyone has forgotten how to walk away from things they don't like or agree with and instead think they need to tell everyone just how much they don't like it.
I agree. I grew up tough. My parents were only prepared for one child. My twin and I were unexpected. At the age of 1 week they put both of us and a raccoon in a trash can for 24 hours. At the end of it I emerged victorious, the raccoon and my twin both having been killed and partially eaten by me. Now, nothing offends me.
Probably not. Those parents would be sentenced for life and this person at a week old could not kill a raccoon and eaten both twin and raccoon. This would be very rare.
😂😂😂😂
One week old? Sounds far fetched. It was probably 1 1/2 or 2 weeks.
Is that true?
It's the same as it always was: there was always a bunch of people who are easily offended. Sometimes, people forget that it's much easier to communicate to the world at large via social media now. Before, when people where so easily offended, they could only vent it to the circle of people around them.
Hey she isn't abusing her kid and isn't creating a monster (a bully or an abuser) so why focus on something SO GODDAMN TRIVIAL? The internet is full of policers who are more interested in controlling other people than actually living their lives.
I wish I could give this comment 5 upvotes because it's perfect!
Right
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
A picture of a baby eating brains with blood and flesh everywhere is not “every little thing”
As if that baby has any remote idea of what he's eating other than it's messy and it tastes good...
It's makeup and pastry and red-colored icing. They took their emotions from a frightening event and turned it into something fun. If you look at the origins of Halloween traditions, you'll find that this celebration is very much in keeping with them. Just because a child had a rocky beginning is no reason not to have fun now!
Just because YOU don't like it doesn't mean no one can do it/have it/whatEVER it. Get over yourself, the world does not revolve around you.
Um you do realize those aren't real brains right.... it's not like the woman killed someone or went to a morgue or anything it's all fake....I know, I know everything in the internet is real but this one thing isn't so your argument is invalid
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.
I totally agree with you. It's all innocent fun. Everyone defines fun in their own way: for some it's watching paint dry, bird watching - those are boring to me. The a,aging thing is, the ones who safeguard and shelter their kids end up either constantly bailing their kids out of the penile system often, identifying their bodies in a morgue or paying monthly for someone to listen to them while they tell their lives from a couch in an office. Also, I have friends who kids ate their chicken that fell on the floor, the parents just picked it up, dusted it off and gave it right back. Kids are healthy adults to date (and that was back in 1990). So I'd say, keep make you son happy they way you choose hun. Don't let these wet socks drench your fun.
"Don't let these wet socks drench your fun." I'm going to need to steal this :)
yes at his coming of age this is what mothers bring out
I would rather have baby pics of me like this, than the naked-sitting-on-the-toilet ones my mom aways pulled out to show off! LOL
True and probably tell his friends how cool his mom is! You can see in his eyes how loved and how loving this child actually is!
I would say that wishing death on someone's child clearly makes the one doing the wishing the bad person.
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!
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Her story is amazing and touching for sure, but the way she chose to memorialize it is pretty disgusting. Zombies are flesh eating walking dead maniacs. They don’t exactly scream triumph of life over death! I think she also did this for the shock value. It’s sad but u can neve underestimate what people are willing to do these days (even with tier kids) just to go viral.
You know what else zombies are? Fictional.
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Ugh! I meant “their kids”.....damn auto correct.