Cbh1978
Tue 27-Nov-12 18:54:00
Shopping centre. Tuesday afternoon. Warrington. Millies Cookies. Mother and (I think) her parents are with a child in a pushchair. Child aged six months approx.
They buy cookies, then give a whole one the size of the baby's head to the baby. Baby not overly impressed I have to say. Granny even remarked 'oh, don't you like it'?
Agggghhhhh!!!! I managed to resist stomping over but then wondered if I was then complicit in this.
10mins later I saw baby with just a stump of biscuit in her tiny hand. I just hope she had thrown the rest somewhere.
Perhaps it is just that I am a tad sensitive to sugar and salt etc issues. Our 11mth old has only had sugar and salt in bread. Have to confess I can't be bothered to make sugar-free bread but not so much as a Petit Filous has passed his lips. His first sugar rush will be his first birthday cake.
Really, they don't need it. Not even in stewed fruit.
Live and let live... Maybe. :-/
Anythingforabitofpeace
Tue 27-Nov-12 19:15:22
How sure where you that the baby was six months? Maybe it was older than your 11 month old.
SoleSource
Tue 27-Nov-12 19:16:56
Yanbu
Sugar and salt is the food of the devil.
Evil, nasty fruit.
Rudolphstolemycarrots
Tue 27-Nov-12 19:17:19
I wonder if that kid is in for a life time of crap food? Fast food when out, processed meals at home, crips, sweets, coke ... I know some people feed children that way and don't think of all the long term health issues attached. Sugar is seriously bad but people just don't realise.
zeeboo
Tue 27-Nov-12 19:20:29
Lol at the idea that a baby would choke on a soft cookie but presumably would be fine with a piece of sugar free bread or an organic rice cake.
MamaBear17
Tue 27-Nov-12 19:22:35
I, for one, bloody hate the food police. My DD eats a healthy, well balanced diet. But, if I want to give her the occasional biscuit I bloody well will. (Admittedly, I perhaps would not have given her a biscuit at 6 months, but it still bloody annoys me when people sneer at her petit filous like it is poison) BUGGER OFF!
monkeymamma
Tue 27-Nov-12 19:25:21
Are you ok, op? (Don't like to think you hoiked your judgey pants up so high they got stuck...)
bedmonster
Tue 27-Nov-12 19:26:59
Really they don't need it. Even in a first birthday cake.
missymoomoomee
Tue 27-Nov-12 19:28:53
Has anyone clutched their pearls and thought of the children yet?
<looks around>
Actual Lol at your 'Crimewatch' type opening.
YABU.
Cbh1978
Tue 27-Nov-12 19:33:47
Child could have been older. Was very much a guesstimate. Could have been younger. Still very fragile and bendy looking. Very cute too. :-)
Thanks Monkeymamma. Wondered why my circulation was being cut off.
Have to say, would never become fully signed up member of the food police. Just surprised me. All sorts of things bother me, as they do all of us, but we usually find it's just not 'our' way. And I make loads of mistakes I know! Not at all self-righteous. Promise.
Cbh1978
Tue 27-Nov-12 19:34:52
Bedmonster, now thinking of carrot first birthday cake. Made of just carrots...
crashdoll
Tue 27-Nov-12 19:39:03
Fuck me now I want a cookie the size of my head. 
Enfyshedd
Tue 27-Nov-12 19:41:05
My 6mo DD is tiny - smaller than a friend's nearly 4mo DD (although friend's DD was a 9lb+ newborn compared to my DD's 5lb 9oz). It's getting scary the amount of food she's starting to pack away.
However, last night I decided not to allow Heinz rice pudding for pudding with tea as even though it fills her tummy so she sleeps well for the night, she was bouncing off the walls for over an hour until it wore off and she went to sleep.
Parents' problem, not yours. YABU.
LavenderPots
Tue 27-Nov-12 19:47:59
may not have been 6 months old my dd2 was the size of a 6 month old baby at 14months....unless baby had a badge saying 6 months old today how can you know?? MYOB
I love giving DS sweet stuff. It makes him so happy
amy175
Tue 27-Nov-12 19:54:00
i once saw a mum fill a baby bottle with red can coke for her baby in arms. 
LilyVonSchtupp
Tue 27-Nov-12 19:55:17
'I can't be bothered to make sugar free bread'
Brilliant.
gordyslovesheep
Tue 27-Nov-12 19:56:56
you can't be bothered to make sugar free bread - OMG what kind of mother are you
ClippedPhoenix
Tue 27-Nov-12 19:59:13
I remember taking my DS to a party once many moons ago and there was a mum there who was known to be rather militant about her child not having sweet stuff. He went missing for a bit and was found under the table gorging on chocolate cake.
You wanted to stop this biscuit related incident?
Wtf does it have to do with you???
LilyVonSchtupp
Tue 27-Nov-12 20:03:15
Wonder how sugar free bread rises?
Wonder if I should contact SS about 11 month old child who has never had meat, fruit, cheese, veg, yoghurt etc and other sugar and salt containing toxins essential nutrients for a growing human being
Meggymoodle
Tue 27-Nov-12 20:04:52
My guess is you'll be a bit more chilled out by the time the second child comes along (if that's the plan). My first beloved child had no sugar until well past his first birthday. My daughter was weaned on chocolate buttons.
DudeIAmSoFuckingRock
Tue 27-Nov-12 20:12:40
where, in all of that, was the incident? was it when the vein popped in the side of your head?
DialsMavis
Tue 27-Nov-12 20:16:17
1st baby: everything whole grain, absolutely no sugar or salt ever- fussy little sod and a total salad dodger to boot, obsessed with chocolate & crisps.
2nd baby: eats a bit of everything and always has done. Allowed to try whatever food is around- eats everything, scoffs salad, curries, stops eating when full regardless of whether she is allowed another biscuit or chocolate.
