In re C.B. CA1/3

BACKGROUND

C.B. (child) was born in September 2019. Three months later, the child “was hospitalized because he was under weight and . . . was having seizures.” In early February 2020, the San Francisco Human Services Agency (Agency) filed a petition alleging the child came within Welfare and Institutions Code

C.C. (mother) has also appealed from these orders, but she joins

father’s briefing and does not raise any appellate issues of her own. We mention only those facts necessary to address the issues raised by father.

1 section 300, subdivision (b) (undesignated statutory references are to this code) because he had been diagnosed with “failure to thrive due to insufficient nutrition,” and mother had missed the child’s medical appointments and declined assistance from a public health nurse. The petition further alleged mother’s mental health issues impaired her ability to care for the child and that her home presented a safety hazard. Finally, the petition averred father — the child’s alleged father — failed to meet the child’s medical needs as he did not “intervene or act protectively” after a medical social worker told him about “the concerns for the [child’s] care.”…