ice cream for a 6mth old....

[mum2samandalex]

hes hot bothered and teething and making me feel very guilty eating my ice cream

[lulumama]

give him a frozen banana to chew on, far better for sore gums

[designerbaby]

FWIW whenever I have icecream in my DD's presence I always give her a wee bit... doesn't seem fair not to

A tiny bit isn't going to do them any harm IMHO...

db
xx

p.s. DD prefers Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie - thats why I have to buy it...

[lilymolly]

yes its fine as long as its just a little bit!

[beansprout]

I wouldn't.

[moocowme]

yes i did the same thing and DS is absolutely fine. and yes the icecream helped the gum pain.

[HaventSleptForAYear]

I did.

With DS2.

DS1 was carefully protected from anything resembling dessert, sweets, ice-cream etc.

Now won't eat cake etc. Like me.

DS2 is a big "gourmand" (nice way of saying loves his food/greedy guts)

[HaventSleptForAYear]

BTW - NOT for gum pain but just as a taste of mine.

Didn't try to justify it with medicinal use

[Tinkjon]

If you're worried about it then make your own - that is perfectly fine for babies, in fact I think could even be regarded as healthy! Just full-fat dairy and bananas (bananas don't need sugar if really ripe) - what could be better baby food?!

[belgo]

Babies this age mostly don't like eating cold things - my children were 18 months or more before they liked ice cream.

[Tinkjon]

Although my 10.5mo DS has just wolfed down a homemade fruit-juice lolly!

[ThatBigGermanPrison]

I gave mine frozen chips to chew.

Frozen banana would be better.

[NoBiggy]

I had some lovely banana ice cream, turned out to be just frozen bananas put through a juicer (a powerful one, admittedly).

[solo]

Ice lolly.

[princessglitter]

plain yogurt with chopped up fruit makes a lovely ice lolly. Annabel Karmel does some baby sized lolly moulds; I got mine from Boots.

[paolosgirl]

DS1 was protected from the evils of sugar and all nice things for over 2 years. DD for about 18 months. DS2? He's already had ice cream, and he's 15 months! A little bit of everything will no them no harm.

[charitas]

I have lovely recipe for frozen greek yorghurt and pureed apricots, v lucsh never tried it on a baby though(piglet still off too tender an age for food0

[Brunocat]

I must be very bad mummy - 11 month old son has just waten half a Cadbury's white chocolate Dream. He loved it. I can't eat an ice cream without him getting very excited and trying to grab it off me. Must admit I don't normally let him eat as much as half though, normally more like a quater.