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DH accidentally let baby eat some cinnamon bun?

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August24Mama · 13/03/2025 22:56

AIBU to be annoyed by this... DH had my 6mo and he was eating a cinnamon bun. He said baby grabbed it (she's very fast with her hands) and brought it to her mouth. He immediately stopped her but not before he said she ate a tiny amount of it. Baby is acting fine and no reactions or anything but I'm still annoyed? I'm strict with what she eats don't want her eating processed foods, and obviously no added sugars until 2. She's only had a handful of freshly made fruits and veggies since starting solids at 6 months, I guess now we can add cinnamon bun to the list.

AIBU to be annoyed when it was an accident? I didn't go mad at him or anything but it's been nagging at me since it happened.

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Startingoverandover · 14/03/2025 09:22

LittleTwiggy · 14/03/2025 08:53

Why are people trying to correct OP’s use of “my 6 month old”? It is her baby, it’s also her DH’s baby, and it’s their baby. All are correct and, besides, this isn’t Pedant’s Corner.

To criticise her in a less obvious way. It's a passive aggressive inference that the OP is possesive over the baby to the detriment of the father.

And people are still sneering at the OP, despite her accepting that she was behaving unreasonably, and that she mentions suffering from PPA.

Goldengirl123 · 14/03/2025 09:17

Are you actually being serious????? Get a grip

ERthree · 14/03/2025 09:14

FFD 2 years and your child will be eating chicken nuggets. You really need to ease up. and by the way your husband is this child's parent too, you are not the Madonna.

Middlechild3 · 14/03/2025 09:13

August24Mama · 13/03/2025 22:56

AIBU to be annoyed by this... DH had my 6mo and he was eating a cinnamon bun. He said baby grabbed it (she's very fast with her hands) and brought it to her mouth. He immediately stopped her but not before he said she ate a tiny amount of it. Baby is acting fine and no reactions or anything but I'm still annoyed? I'm strict with what she eats don't want her eating processed foods, and obviously no added sugars until 2. She's only had a handful of freshly made fruits and veggies since starting solids at 6 months, I guess now we can add cinnamon bun to the list.

AIBU to be annoyed when it was an accident? I didn't go mad at him or anything but it's been nagging at me since it happened.

'my 6 months old' surely that should be 'our 6 months old'.
This is a non event nothing to be upset about.

moonshinepoursthroughmywindow · 14/03/2025 09:07

I didn't want my DC to eat sugar until they were 1, but they both ended up getting some very occasionally and it didn't seem to do them any harm. I would only worry about this if it started happening often, in case your DD started getting a taste for sugar and rejecting other foods you would like her to eat. As an occasional treat, or even mistake, it won't hurt her and she's too young to make a mental note that she would like more of that food. But I agree with the person who said if she's starting to grab people's food you'll need to be more careful not to put food she can't have within reach.

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 14/03/2025 09:03

God I want a cinnamon bun now... hoping I am of the correct age to have bun introduced to my diet....

Namerchangee · 14/03/2025 09:03

Better than eating pebbles in the garden!

MellowPinkDeer · 14/03/2025 08:59

TBH cinnamon buns are the best buns out there. At least your baby is already showing excellent taste.

Grammarnut · 14/03/2025 08:56

LittleTwiggy · 14/03/2025 08:53

Why are people trying to correct OP’s use of “my 6 month old”? It is her baby, it’s also her DH’s baby, and it’s their baby. All are correct and, besides, this isn’t Pedant’s Corner.

Then you say 'our baby' not 'my baby', that's why. Slips of grammar are great giveaways about what someone actually thinks.

LastHeraldMage · 14/03/2025 08:56

August24Mama · 13/03/2025 23:04

Hahahahaha, I can only imagine what your reaction was to that 😂😂 Glad she was ok that's hilarious 😂 They really are sneaky little ninjas aren't they

Mine too, although he was 8 months. He starts his Masters this year, so I dont think its damaged him too bad

Grammarnut · 14/03/2025 08:55

No reason a baby of 6mths can't have some cinnamon bun. Is the baby not your DH's since you say 'my' baby?

LittleTwiggy · 14/03/2025 08:53

Why are people trying to correct OP’s use of “my 6 month old”? It is her baby, it’s also her DH’s baby, and it’s their baby. All are correct and, besides, this isn’t Pedant’s Corner.

CantStopMoving · 14/03/2025 08:52

Hankunamatata · 14/03/2025 07:43

One of mine used to lick the floor and constantly grabbed anything I was eating. Think of it as tastes. They need to taste a wide range.

Reminds me of when I went to the pub with my toddler. We had been for a walk and stopped for a drink and a packet of crisps. Our daughter was toddling around the table but we realised that she had been hoovering up some of the dropped crisps on the floor… the carpet that was about 1000 years old and probably had undiscovered species of bacteria in it! 🤮

anyway she has the constitution of an ox so didn’t get ill… that or it gave her superpowers. Not sure which yet.

OP. It is very easy to worry yourself ragged at 6 months over every single thing. Everyone does it over something. Now when they turn 16 and eat and drink all manner of awful foods you wonder what on earth you were worrying about!

Gogogo12345 · 14/03/2025 08:52

EdithBond · 14/03/2025 08:31

Wow, and I thought this was a safe space for mothers (including those with MHPs) to seek empathy, reassurance and advice. OP is struggling with anxiety. If you’ve nothing kind to say, maybe don’t say anything at all?

Maybe parenting or mental health forums. Not AIBU

TinyGingerCat · 14/03/2025 08:50

One of mine ate handfuls of wet cat food (Felix as good as it looks) out the cat's bowl whilst the cat sat next to her looking sad. She's vegan now 🤣

jacktheladess · 14/03/2025 08:47

Chocolateisameal · 13/03/2025 23:02

In the next few months, I can guarantee that she will also manage to eat small amounts of carpet, fluff, clothing, soil and anything else that she can get her hands on. She will be fine.

And worms! Don’t forget worms…

notatinydancer · 14/03/2025 08:46

Seriously?

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 14/03/2025 08:40

My Dbro once ate a woodlouse - nice and crunchy!

Ddakji · 14/03/2025 08:40

I really do think @mnhq need to lock down threads like this, because all that’s going to happen is pages of idiots posting sneery ignorant comments.

soupyspoon · 14/03/2025 08:39

Couple of things

You're laughing about it now and thats a good thing, it will be good for you to build on that with other anxieties that you have and that will be part of the recovery and healing around the anxiety

Secondly I would think really carefully about your assumption that your husband knows nothing about how you fell about bungate, becuase the dynamic between you will be full of unsaid things and tensions and you will feel that because you didnt say anything it wont have affected him. He very likely picked up on the implication that he did something wrong This is important becuase you posted 'my baby' and then you said you could have worded it differently but its clear your first instinct is that its your baby, not his

That has an impact on making your anxiety worse becuase you feel solely and wholly responsible for her outside of anyone else, thats a huge pressure on you but equally he will feel excluded if thats how your general view is of your status with each other

Have a think about those things and hopefully you're getting proper support with the anxiety so that someone can help you unpick those

Ddakji · 14/03/2025 08:39

Candledrip · 14/03/2025 07:39

Did you write cinnamon instead of cocaine? Otherwise I’m missing the problem

That’s because you’re incapable of reading more than one post. If you’d read all the OP’s posts you wouldn’t be making an idiot of yourself right now.

Errors · 14/03/2025 08:36

EdithBond · 14/03/2025 08:31

Wow, and I thought this was a safe space for mothers (including those with MHPs) to seek empathy, reassurance and advice. OP is struggling with anxiety. If you’ve nothing kind to say, maybe don’t say anything at all?

I agree, some really horrible sneery posts on here and most of them probably would have felt similar with their PFB! We all told ourselves they would only eat organic unprocessed foods, never watch a minute of TV or drink high sugar drinks and then find ourselves 6 years later with them eating pizza and drinking fruit shoots whilst watching absolute shite on the TV 😂

Unexpectedlysinglemum · 14/03/2025 08:36

It will have exposed her to new flavour which is what you want at that age

EdithBond · 14/03/2025 08:31

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Wow, and I thought this was a safe space for mothers (including those with MHPs) to seek empathy, reassurance and advice. OP is struggling with anxiety. If you’ve nothing kind to say, maybe don’t say anything at all?

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 14/03/2025 08:29

I remember being SO upset when my PFB grabbed a banana from my hand and started eating it - he was six months old and I was waiting for him to show interest in solid food before I weaned him. Well he showed a lot of interest in that banana! Oddly enough, he hates bananas now.

By the time it came to baby number 5, she was given anything and everything by any child wandering past. She tried to suck the dog once. She's now 28 and incredibly healthy, so I really wouldn't worry too much, OP.