Gravy for a baby?!

I think you can get a baby gravy version that is low in salt...
It wasn't around when my son was weaning and I did add a little watered down gravy and he survived but I don't think I would give the normal version of there is a baby one available...

YANBU back in the 90's there was a baby boy who died. He was being fed on ready brek and mash and gravy. He was too young to be given solids anyway. But he died of being given too much salt.

You can get baby gravy I used to get it for mine. Not when I first started weaning it's more about first tastes. By putting gravy on they it disguises the taste of the food.

I remember that case the poster linked on page 1. Very young parents and they had listened to older relatives I recall.
Just say no you’ll follow uk guidelines.

I knew before reading OP’s responses that this “advice”’came from an interfering MIL under the guise of being helpful! I’d be very clear with them that I don’t buy artificial crap like Bisto and also send them some statistics about how much salt is in it versus the RDA for a baby. But I must say, Gravy for a Baby would be a great name for a band!

It’s vile. All chemically and the wrong texture.
Homemade rocks. And is simple.

Mine doesn’t. Meat juices from the roasting plus flour and water from cooking the veg. All unsalted.

No it doesn’t. It’s horrible and chemically. I must be allergic to something in it I think because I feel sick for the rest of the day if I end up eating some. Home made is infinitely better and takes about 5mins to make.

I remember that

Tesco used to sell baby gravy in the baby aisle (used to buy it for DS back in early 2010s). Unless baby is having gravy every meal shop own reduced salt would be fine. DS didn't have any until he had been weaned a good 2-3 months. At 6.5 months, milk is still baby's primary nutritious in take and solid food should be a bonus

No no no. The salt content would be very dangerous. Do bot give anything with added salt or sugar.

Well, I quote I would love to know who are these “others” who just hand over their babies. So I clarified that for you.

Also, people should be free to do what's right for them, well, that kind of message doesn't go down that well with everyone. Some people back home will probably look down on OP's in laws for not raising the grandchildren.

Everyone I personally know does it mostly out of hardship so I don't judge them.

Personally, I cannot fathom sending my child away but genuinely, there really are lots of people handing over their babies. Actually my nanny is one of them. She has 3 kids being raised by her mum in the Philippines.

Yes I do understand that different cultures have different way of doing things but presumably they are happy with this - but the OP is not therefore she shouldn’t be compared to the the “others” that are happy to do this. People should feel free to do what’s right for them without being called “precious” was my point.

I'm originally from Eastern Europe and this is very common back home. I have friends in London who have shipped out their toddlers to their parents. I myself was largely raised by grandparents between 2 and 10 years old.

I've never used a stock cube for gravy, this came up on another thread at the moment, can't any one cook anything anymore without using pastes and pots and sachets and cubes? Gravy is made from meat juice, fat, flour, herbs and usually wine if I've got anything to do with it

Eating low salt gravy I can't really see why not babies need to have less then 1g of salt a day
Give both mine it just to water down a dinner
Veg nothing cooked in salt wouldn't give them anything else with salt the rest of the day.

Unless you make your own from your veg stock for baby. I wouldn't. Especially not the ultra processed granules ect

I would love to know who are these “others” who just hand over their babies 🙄. Not saying it doesn’t happen but I personally wouldn’t no. So completely understand. And I would also say no to gravy. There are plenty of healthier choices - and if this is not even your first baby surely you know what you’re doing… just trust your instincts and if that means you are “precious” well i wouldn’t really give it too much thought

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Why would you give your 6 month old salty UPFs!? Ridiculous!!!!

YANBU

Why on earth would you give a baby just weaning, gravy? What is wrong with just give a baby simple soft foods? That is the last thing that would come to mind to give to a baby. Don’t think our kids had gravy until they were maybe 5. More because we rarely eat roasts (not a fan of them myself) and never occurred to me to give them gravy when they ate what was on their plate just fine.

At that age they shouldn’t be having anything like that. You’re not meant to give them salt purée. Vegetables is perfect. I know somebody who was a health visitor and dietician who recommended weaning foods as
cheesy whootis !
Same person, advised a young mother to give her child kiwi fruit as a weaning food totally bonus nothing wrong with mash pears purée carrots purée, parsnips on all those beautiful things there’s a lot of mad madness out there stick with your plan

Bisto is an abomination and an insult to gravy. Bit of homemade, pre seasoning, however, sounds fine.

Gravy-Mae is so adorable tho.

They sound fucking nuts

These are your in laws? Why are you talking to them so much?

I also live on the other side of the world from my parents and my in laws and I have a 1 year old.

I have spoken maybe twice to my in laws directly in the last 12 months. DH video calls them 2 or 3 times a week. If they had any stupid ideas or a bad opinion of me, I wouldn't know. Why would I?

I speak to my own parents daily because we are close.

I upload videos and photos to a family app daily, for everyone to see, so they are all in the loop without me having to talk to everyone (app is called Back Then). I upload at least one video and 5 photos every day so no could ever accuse me of not keeping them updated. I also post his weight and height whenever we go to the paedetrician because they measure him there every 3 months. Job done.