Lindsay Clancy made a grim-faced appearance in court Thursday as her lawyer claimed she was practically “a vegetable” before she allegedly killed her three young kids.

Clancy, 35, looked forlorn, her eyes downcast, as she was brought into a Plymouth County courtroom in Massachusetts, Thursday in a wheelchair for a hearing ahead of her trial set for next month.

Her lawyer, Kevin Reddington, described for a judge the harrowing months during which she was “a vegetable practically” as she battled postpartum depression and her husband, Patrick Clancy, was shuttling her around to doctors appointments and for hospital stays.

“I’m talking about when Patrick would take his wife in the condition she was in as a vegetable practically and see these doctors and they would prescribe her medication.”

For the four months leading to the murders, Clancy’s mom, dad and sister helped to take care of Lindsay and Patrick’s kids so they could deal with Lindsay’s mental health problems, Reddington explained.

“It’s her mother and father and her sister who lived this torture along with Pat … lived with her and her family to try to help out,” Reddington said.

The defense attorney said they could testify at trial about, “What they observed, what they did to try to help during that period of time that Lindsay and Patrick were consulting with doctors. When she went to McLean Hospital and they were taking care of the kids and helping out.”

Clancy is accused of strangling her kids Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan with elastic workout bands at her Duxbury home on Jan. 24, 2023. Clancy then slit her wrists and throat and jumped out of the second story of her home, prosecutors have said.

She was partially paralyzed and is now wheelchair bound.

Clancy’s defense attorney is expected to ask a jury to find her not guilty by reason of insanity, claiming she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis at the time of the crimes.

She and her husband, Patrick, have filed lawsuits against the doctors who were treating her, claiming she was misdiagnosed and overmedicated.