Chocolate at 6 weeks old!!

play2day

I don't think as a one off this could harm your baby but wonder if her pancreas is mature enough to cope with the extra sugar if it was repeated regularly? It will be in insulin overdrive! Onset diabetes is seemingly becoming a problem at younger ages. I think you are right to be concerned and also to insist that it must never happen again!
Also isn't chocolate made with cows milk? something we don't generally give to babies before 6 months at the earliest... I can't remember why now though? (DS is 15!)

ruthyjo

My son was fed a tiny bit of chocolate by a drunken relative on xmas day when he was just twenty days old so even tinier than your DD. He is eleven now and absolutely fine - didn't even seem to have any ill effect at the time.

Obviously it's not something you would do yourself or choose to make a habit of, but I do not think you ought to worry or give her dad too hard a time over. As you can see by this thread there's loads of anecdotal evidence of small babies getting tastes of things without any lasting damage.

Simba_25

Thank you for your replys!!

I was still watching the clock at 4am this morning while trying to stop her from crying! I am assuming it was due to belly ache! But this today she is back to her happy smiliy self.

I was furious with her dad at the time, think the whole pub heard me call him an idiot lol I think the thing that bothered me the most is, he has 2 kids already, so has experience with babies ~(his youngest is only 2) But i did tell him in no uncertain terms he will not be having her on his own till he can prove he is capable!

He rang me this morning and asked why i sounded so tired, i told him id been up all night with her as she had a poorly belly...all he said was, how come?? errrm maybe because you had fed her chocolate lol the reply i got was, she'll be alright it wont kill her!!! I couldnt believe it.

So no, he wont be having her unsupervised anytime soon!

changkra

A little bit of gripe water wouldn't do any harm if she has tummy ache, that way she will be able to rest.

bunty109

I'm glad she's ok but I think you are right to worry about her staying with her dad.

A GP friend told me of a 3 month old fed a grape. Sadly they choked to death on it. I'm not an alarmist, but you really need to be sure he is well aware of what he can and can't feed her before helps look after her. He sounds like he hasn't really learned anything from yesterday yet!

Daisies

Yes, really emphasise to him that babies shouldn't be weaned until they're six months old, so only breast/formula milk until then! He might get his head round it more if he knows that ONLY milk is allowed!

super41

If it's a one-off I'm sure she'll be fine. If it's still worrying you why not have a chat with your Health Visitor as I'm sure they'll be in regular contact with you at the moment. As someone else said, the main thing is that you don't leave your precious baby with someone so inexperienced etc. Anyway I'm sure you've already sussed that!

maypole

I can never understand why people want to give chocolate and sweets to babies and toddlers. They don't need it and giving uneccessary sugary things can ruin their teeth before they even come through in my opinion.
My friend couldn't wait until her grandson was "old enough" to have a chocolate button!! WHY? she says he loves them, of course he will, but he has no choice in the matter, the fact is, that it is not good for him. They drew the line at salty things when he was a baby and new he is a toddler, they give him crisps!! how salty can you get!

There will be plenty of time when they are older, when they see other children with sweets and they want them also.

OOOOOOOOh! I get so annoyed about this! sorry about the rant.

Woby_Tide

3plus1 wrote:

For a start, at 6 weeks old, surely all she should be consuming is breast milk?

..or formula

alice's_mum

I would agree with most posters, but be wary, my now 7 year DS was given chocolate when he was small (18 months old he'd never had chocolate, bar the odd bit of Milky Bar), by my mum when she was minding him and he was sooo ill after it. It gave him terrible stomach pains and made him go all hot and "mad" his words not mind. It took hours to calm him down that night, and after that we just kept him away from chocolate.

He decided he wanted to try it again when he first started school and everyone else had chocolate bars, and it had the same effect on him, but this time he could tell us what was wrong, he said something along the lines of - "my heart is bumping out of my chest, my tummy hurts, my head is spinning -I want to run around, but I feel too sick" Again it took hours to calm him down that night, and he has now not had what he calls "brown/dirty chocolate" since. He will happily eat, white chocolate - bit a nightmare trying to find white easter eggs etc, but he will not entertain brown chocolate in any shape or form.

Would definately say keep little one away from Chocolate until she's a lot older.