DH accidentally let baby eat some cinnamon bun?

Your baby is putting way worse things in their mouths every time they put their hands in their mouths. This is literally how they get an immune system. My midwife said as soon as they could put their hands in their mouth sterilizing bottles etc was pointless. Seems logical.

Read your thread yesterday but saw it was still trending so just thought I'd pop in to see if it had escalated any more and baby was now running around the streets like a gangster or had developed a taste for crack or something.

DS‘ first ever food was chocolate ice cream. We had been planning to introduce solids within the next couple of weeks. However, DH had him in a sling while eating/holding a chocolate ice cream cone and talking to a friend. Suddenly, most of the generous scoop of ice cream was gone and DS was beaming all over his brown, sticky face.

He was fine. Still adores good, Italian ice-cream.

I am not the one making a huge fuss about very little.

This comment has put me right in the mood for a Greggs apple turnover mmmmm.....

Ah, don’t be too hard on yourself. We’ve all had these moments of madness. I was still sterilising at 10 months. DC was eating worms out of the garden yet I was obsessed with the cutlery!

ignore all the horrible comments, I guarantee most of the posters have an equally embarrassing PFB moment.

Or maybe the problem is with you.

You are massively overeacting or maybe this is a wind up?

Not having a go at you OP, but i've witnessed this too with two friends of DD. Their diets (and lives) were so strictly controlled that when they came to my home, where my children have a very healthy balanced attitude to food, these kids went wild. I can trust my kids to have balanced snacks, when they're hungry, but these kids just saw unlimited access to the treats and ate so much they were sick. They weren't babies either, these were nine year olds, I didn't expect I would have to be monitoring their every movement in the other room, lesson learnt!

Anyway, you know you need to have more help with your anxiety, which is good. i think in reality kids need far less strictly controlled lives than all the parenting gurus would have you believe. If you model healthy behaviours and give firm but fair boundaries, with mature explanations, kids turn out fine. Anything extreme is a bad idea

@August24Mama

You must laugh together like it really doesn't matter. Because it doesn't! My adult DCs would probably have been fed a cinammon bun back when mine were that age.

And to put it in perspective, my DC1 ate a big spider at 6 months old. I am not joking, I thought... what is that piece of cotton coming out of her mouth. It was a spiders leg!

If it was my cinnamon bun that had been pinched I would have been furious, she would have been on bread and water for a week!

I think we have all been there as first time parents panicking over things like this. I remember losing my mind when I couldn’t remember if I had sterilised my babies bottles or not in the haze of tiredness.

i started worrying less when I took my son to soft play for the first time and he ate some discarded raisins from the floor whilst I was looking elsewhere for a nano second!

all will be well, everyday is a new day with little ones x

Wait for the worms!

Your child will be crawling around on the floor soon, if they're not already - and hopefully you'll let them crawl around on the ground in the summer! They'll be exposed to all sorts, happily for their immune system. Cinnamon bun is not problem.

Good for you OP, that's a really great, and important, attitude to have. Our children are generally led by our behaviours and attitudes so your awareness is only going to benefit you all.
This is one of those threads that could have gone a different, more lighthearted way, considering your acknowledgement that you may have over reacted but, alas, some people can't help themselves.

Let me guess… first baby?

Mine were eating woodlice off the floor by 9 months.

My DS helped himself to my mojito at about 11m, early walker and was bloody quick!
he also ate a shocking amount of cat food, dog food and a slug 🤢

My DD loved woodlice when she was a baby, we were forever scooping them out of her mouth! Woodlice are now forever referred to as 'crunchy land prawns' in our house

We have all been there, mine at the contents of a nappy as in the little balls that absorb the moisture! He is 12 now and a bit fussier with his food 😂

Oh god yes, one of mine was always eating woodlice and she's now a strapping teenager (although she DOES eat absolute shite). Glad you've seen the light!

@August24Mama don't mind the posters who haven't taken the time to even view your subsequent posts if not read the full thread, that's their problem not yours, this thread is gold, don't get it deleted, it goes to show that we've ALL been there 😊

Thank you for starting this thread even if it started from a place of anxiety, it's a good reminder to us all of how babies & toddlers have a laugh at our expense sometimes x

My brother managed to grab a glass of beer and drink some at a similar age - our Dad was holding one in each arm. I can happily report he's still alive.

I mean this with all kindness OP, but displaying such incredibly tense and controlling behaviour around your baby will do them far, far more harm than if they scoffed a bucket of Haribo.

People are horrible on this board and love nothing more than to join in a pile on. It's good you realised you overreacted and hopefully you'll feel better next time your baby grabs something they're not supposed to - as you can see from the stories in this thread it's going to happen!

(To join in, my son was too quick for me aged 2 and took a huge slurp of the nice fresh Caipirinha I had on the table)