Animals, like newborn giraffe calves, are able to clamber upright and walk around on their own within hours of birth. Human babies, however, are a different story. For the first two months of life, they can't lift their heads without help.

Human babies are helpless more so than any other animal, and this series perfectly exploits the psyche of a child.

You know in horror movies where it's common sensical to "not go alone/in there" but the main characters keep making dumb decisions anyways?

In this series, despite the main character making "dumb decisions", we can sort of empathize with him. It puts us in the scenario of being torn between selling out our most loved person, or deluding ourselves into rationalizing their behavior because no matter what it is they've done, we cling on to some means of justification as to lighten the burden, like "victim of circumstance", stress, life, etc. As of writing this review, I'm still hoping that the mother has a "good" reason for her behavior, like maybe a tragic backstory or something, and this just goes to show the power of attachment. She is unpredictable, abusive, erratic, and controlling, someone that I as an adult would know to run the hell away from but as a child might come to defend and cling onto just like the main character. Nature has the many of us programmed to love our parents, but when that parent is abusive, its sending a weird message.

Art:
I don't know what it is about the art but its amazing. Something about being sort of notepad sketchy like makes it feel like a diary. Something I noticed about this authors style is that he captures the face in very intricate detail. The nose not being a half bottom part triangle approximation, the mouths often showing the teeth. It reminds me of Finding Nemo and that scene where the kid was at the dentist, where we get to see the lens of what she looks like in the eyes of a fish.
The author is on my list of being a master of framing and timing.

TL;DR
This series is a psychological thriller that keeps you on the edge(no pun intended), to the point where it measures up or even exceeds series classified as horror.

To all the unborn children out there, chose your parents wisely

Note;
Also I maybe biased because I can relate to this series on some personal level.