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Baby of no more than 18 months, with coke in a baby's bottle, in the seat of a trolley in the supermarket. It's none of my business, <gags self with glove > .

been there, seen that. What can you do?

I see the coke and raise you iron bru ..... pored out of a can straight into a bottle, baby looked about a year. It was my ten year old ds who pointed it out to me and did a cats bum mouth!

More importantly-which supermarket?

There's been he'll on here with asda shoppers previously

How do you know it was coke op? Might've been a dark juice?

I remember a mum coming into my place of work so proud because her son had started drinking out of a bottle......bit confused at the idea he's started ......until I saw said 2 year old swigging flat coke out of a 2 litre.......

Definitely coke - unless it was Guinness? I went past at least 3 times (nonchalantly). It was Asda.

Could've been prune juice.

wouldn't happen in waitrose

I completely get it. When I mc & was waiting in epu there was a couple who were Jeremy Kyles finest. She was heavily pregnant asking her partner to listen out for her name as she needed a fag. Their toddler of maybe 18 months max was drinking coke from a bottle inbetween sips of his dads red bull who was ranting about 'fucking foreign cunts' being seen first. They were like a mumsnet bingo all of their own.
I felt such rage that she had babies whilst I was mc.

And juice in a bottle would still be pretty bad for her teeth.

Oh, poor kid.
...it's none of your business..

Why do I never witness this kind of thing?

At least the child was sitting in the seat, not standing in the food part of the trolley!

I never see people like this. I did walk behind a family once where both parents and older teen were sharing a spliff and the under ten kept asking for some....

Sorry to hear that Ice .

Fenton I actually went in a Waitrose the other day (there isn't one where I live), and was shocked to notice that Waitrose sell Fruit Shoots. <tongue in cheek emoticon>. From what I'd been led to believe on here, Waitrose shoppers wouldn't dream of buying Fruit Shoots. So who's buying them?

When DD had D&V as a toddler the GP recommended flat coke as she wouldn't drink that diarolyte nonsense. In a sippy cup though

Uch my kids were off bottles by 5 months and dd is 8 and still very very rarely allowed fizzy juice.

I hate seeing it - you just think of their poor insides plus their wee teethies i just couldn't but everyones different.

<trying and failing to be accepting>

Thank you Eg. Have ds now

All these people who post it wouldn't happen in Waitrose..

I'm going to drag my 3yr DD around waitrose and force a baby's bottle filled with coke on her (she wouldn't be happy because bottles are babyish but needs must)

I'll take pictures for photographic evidence that it does indeed happen in waitrose

Ha, I laugh in the face of your coke and iron bru and give you lager and black in a babies bottle given to a toddler. The Mum was saying it would help him to sleep later.

Last week I saw a girl no more then two with a can of redbull. Who actually wants their toddler to have more energy??

Fuck that's bad Lou

I think I must live in my own little bubble because I never see people like this either. That couple you describe icelolly sound like something straight out of a sketch show. I bet it was difficult to witness that especially after your loss

yes, flat coke is great for rehydration after D&V.
not otherwise though.

I personally don't like children drinking juice, either, empty calories, but i've seen 8mo drinking watered down cordial instead of water. they just don't need it.

A woman I know has given all hers diet coke in their bottles. Her youngest is 17 months and barely walking and she's been putting diet coke instead of milk in his bottle for at least 4 months now.

I saw her ramming crisps down the same babies throat at 5 months so I assume she did that with all of them too.

I have perfected the art of not doing the face and strangling myself with my own judgey pants as it's a small village.... But I have to wonder how anyone in this day and age can think diet coke for a baby is ok