Chocolate at 6 weeks old!!

Janepig

Quackers wrote:

I remember being horrified when my father in law thought it was fine to dunk my babies dummy in whisky and give it to her 'because she was teething' and it 'quitened her down - she liked it!'.

Silly man, everyone knows its Gin for teething!!!!! :rotfl:

Someone in work has a grandson whose mother has been putting rusk in his bottle since he was about 6 weeks and he's the most freakish looking baby I've ever seen. He actually looks quite sad and really unhealthy and I wonder if some mothers bother reading or listening to any information about how to raise babies because the one thing that screams at you is not to put rusk in babies bottles. Is it me?

Jxx

Juicy_Tube

maypole wrote:

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.

I am in complete agreement with you on this:D I just wonder "Why"? It is so not necessary.

My LO is just one and has never had unnaturally sweetened anything. He eats very well, all veggies and meat, and has NATURAL yoghurt with my own pureed fruit-not difficult to do.

I worry when we we have my parents here, in the sense that they say "give him a jam sandwich", "Give the poor child a chocolate biscuit". I feel as though I am doing something really wrong??

We are going to my nephew's birthday party next weekend and I am dreading the food issue as he has all the things my LO doesn't-chocolate, jelly, custard, angel delight??! All packet stuff and full of sugar? He will be one. bThey bought my LO chocolate buttons when he was 5 months old-say no more..

Don't get me wrong, MY LO has had his first birthday party and had some chocolate cake but that was it! He has little bits of chocolate but nothing more.

I know I am right in what I am doing, but find it hard to deal with other people and their 'opinions'

Any thoughts please?

JT x

squashy

If it was a fondue or some other runny dessert it may well have had raw eggs in it, so that probably wont do her much good either! I agree that she should have NOTHING but milk until at least 6 months old, so you are right to be mad at her dad really. If you make that your mantra then this one incident won't have caused too much damage. Hope she settles soon.

super41

Juicy_Tube wrote:

My LO is just one and has never had unnaturally sweetened anything. He eats very well, all veggies and meat, and has NATURAL yoghurt with my own pureed fruit-not difficult to do.

I worry when we we have my parents here, in the sense that they say "give him a jam sandwich", "Give the poor child a chocolate biscuit". I feel as though I am doing something really wrong??

We are going to my nephew's birthday party next weekend and I am dreading the food issue as he has all the things my LO doesn't-chocolate, jelly, custard, angel delight??! All packet stuff and full of sugar? He will be one. bThey bought my LO chocolate buttons when he was 5 months old-say no more..

Don't get me wrong, MY LO has had his first birthday party and had some chocolate cake but that was it! He has little bits of chocolate but nothing more.

I know I am right in what I am doing, but find it hard to deal with other people and their 'opinions'

Any thoughts please?

JT x

Well done on sticking to your principles and keeping your LO off sugar etc. IMO there's a place for sweets and sugary foods as children get a bit older - as occasional treats! Having said that most kids do seem to love that sort of stuff. My DD had milk allergy till 4 and had never tasted chocolate till then, and guess what she loves it!! Same with eggs and now she loves cake! The allergy was difficult to deal with sometimes because of food restrictions but it now seems it was good as it limited lots of those kinds of foods that people want to give them and you don't! My 8 month old has never been given sweetened food but given a choice between mashed broccoli, potato and carrot and naturally pureed fruit, guess what he prefers?! Sorry I've gone a bit off topic...

Juicy_Tube

Thank you,

Naturally pureed fruit any day over Petit Filous:D

JT x

Emms

hardpressed wrote:

As for letting her stay with dad at the weekend I wouldn't let such a tiny baby stay with anyone who didn't have experience with babies, I'd be worried what else her might give her, he doesn't seem very responsible.

A large majority of people who have children wont have had experience with babies. We all need to learn somehow. I would hardly say him mistakingly giving the baby some chocolate means he isnt responsible enough to look after the child.

Emma

pboae

OH's Dad let him suck a chocolate biscuit when he was a couple of days old. His Mum was not impressed but it didn't appear to do any harm.

comping_cat

Not something i would do with such a young baby (i was told by the health visitor that babies shouldnt have anything other than milk until they were 4 months old (although this used to be 3 months, they changed it as you always get people starting earlier, and under 3 months is more of a problem, i dont know why)) but im sure it wont do much harm.
However, i would be very wary of dipping the dummy in something sweet, and then letting baby suck on it - i know baby doesnt have teeth at the moment, but if he/she gets used to suking the dummy with chocolate on it this could cause problems when his/her teeth come through.

Penny-Pincher!!

Some fondues have raw egg in them.

PP
xx

maypole

Hello Juicy tube

YES! I know we used to be thought of as strange for not giving our babies sweets etc, for some reason we are seen to be depriving them. Ignorance I think. My mother in law sometimes used to take a sweetie out of her mouth and give to my toddler:eek: they have a different way of thinking. On a different subject, when we used to have a dog and she came into my house and she saw the dogs dish empty, she would say that poor dog has got no food! well:rolleyes: that's because the dog has eaten her food! you could not get through to her, she used to feed the dog millions of biscuits too.

Well MIL and dog are sadly both dead and my children are now all grown up, one of them is having their own baby soon and they can relax in the knowledge that THIS mother will not give their baby any rubbish.

Sorry again for the rant.