In re Isabelle G. CA1/5

I. BACKGROUND

Because Mother and Father (Parents) challenge the court’s orders overruling the demurrer and sustaining the petition separately, we consider the evidence before the court at the time of each ruling seriatim. A. Evidence Before the Court at the Demurrer Hearing 1. Isabelle’s Birth and the Voluntary Services Plan In November 2011, the Agency received a referral that Mother had “ ‘delivered [Isabelle] . . . in the hospital room on her own, did not notify the nurses when she was pushing the baby out, pulled the newborn out by herself and then pulled out her own placenta. [Mother] required surgery to repair a tear in her membrane which she caused when she pulled out her baby and the placenta.’ Following [Isabelle’s] birth, [Mother] was placed on a [section] 5150 hold for ‘grave disability.’ . . . [Medical records] described [Mother] as ‘actively psychotic upon giving birth[,]’ ” and as having “ ‘a probable psychotic mood disorder presenting . . . in postpartum with acute psychosis.’ ” The Agency investigated and found the allegations substantiated. Parents agreed to a voluntary services plan. Specifically, “[F]ather agreed to sign a safety plan[, which]…