Baby drinking coke from a bottle

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Saw this earlier and was horrified!

Baby maybe just over a year old crying in pushchair.

Mum gets bottle of full fat coke out from under the pram, fills up babies bottle and hands it to the baby.

I honestly cried when I saw the baby guzzling down the cola like it was milk.

How can anyone think this is acceptable?

I wouldn't cry but I'd think 'shit choice that parent's making' and move on.

Full fat coke is a joke phrase, people don't actually think it contains fat if you don't get it you are probably too young to remember when whole milk was labelled "full fat".

TBH I think it would upset me seeing a baby given an entire bottle of coke to drink too... I'm not going to get het up over a sip.

It only took one post for the OP to be told to mind her own business.

For what it's worth I would judge. I wouldn't cry, but I would think it was inappropriate. Once when DD was in hospital I saw a parent give her two year old coke in a bottle. The nurses saw as well, and I could hear them muttering about how the child would have no teeth when she was older.

My children love sausage rolls also (even though I don’t think any pigs actually died in their making)

Ignoring the crying bit, I would be uncomfortable to see a one year drink coke, I’m not sure anyone would be comfortable with it.

Though i should feel uncomfortable as I say that I give my almost 2 year old sweets-nothing but sugar (and ingredients I don’t understand) in that

I really hate it when people refer to fizzy drinks as "full fat". How much fat do you think there is in a bottle of coke?

People don't really think it contains fat. It's a jokey way of saying not the diet/otherwise reduced version. When I was pregnant DH often asked of I wanted "full-fat tea" as opposed to decaff and I would very occasionally have a small alcoholic drink or "full-fat beer".

I saw the younger brother of a kid at school being given coke in a baby's bottle. The older sister is 5 and has black teeth. I didn't cry but I did question if this counts as abuse... knowing the pain involved in bad teeth and giving coke anyway.

I gave my then 1 year old coke when he was recovering from severe d&v the sugar and caffeine really helped him and I believe stopped him having to go into hospital to be rehydrated. He had it in a bottle also.

Ive pinched this from Quora because its put more succinctly than anything I could write. This is for those among us who seem never to have come across the term before.
In the UK it is or at least was common to refer to whole milk as full fat milk. Referring to standard Coke as full fat Coke is simply a comical reference to it being the most calorific variety of Coke in the same way as full fat milk is the most calorific variety of milk. It's not meant to imply Coke actually contains any fat.

It is offensive. Very very offensive. It sounds like you have no idea of the hell that some kids live in, coke is nothing.

Well, I wouldn’t have cried but I think that’s pretty atrocious parenting and says nothing positive about the parent. There’s absolutely no excuse, it is neglect.

But MN will never have that OP, so I wouldn’t bother TBH.

Yep, shit parenting. Given that I was warned against it repeatedly in baby classes, I'd guess it happens much more often that we'd like to think. Doesn't make it ok, of course, any more than the fact many children are being physically abused daily somehow legitimises coke for babies either.

Astonished by the number of people who don't get the reference to full fat coke. It's a common expression in my book

And as for
maybe it was black currant juice disguised as cola to fool the baby.

It's bad parenting but I'd be more concerned over the OP crying. Surely that's not a normal response.

At least there wasn't vodka in it

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All those people teasing the OP. I would imagine its not about the coke itself, more about how that come is the tip of the iceberg. I despair at things like this and I find it distressing and depressing. That child is born into a situation where it will never know different. It is not fed healthy food, it's not cared for inteligently, its given acid in a bottle to rot it's milk teeth and will develop those habits never knowing any different. That child is destined to be a statistic. One who has it's teeth removed at five, one who suffers obesity, diabetes etc. I understand the Ops dismay. That is what is wrong with the eating habits in this country. We blame people, but how often do we blame their parents? A fully grown adult may never have known anything different so never has a healthy chance.

I can't believe how much people are minimising it and totally agree OP, poor kid, and if the responses here are anything to go by a sad reflection of what is seen as ok, yes you may not cry but don't bloody give excuses for it!

It’s disgraceful parenting but crying is OTT.

I can't believe everyone seems to be sticking up for a mother that gives her baby Coke? There are 7 spoons of sugar in a can and a whole lot of caffeine.

And yes, there are kids that are suffering a hell of a lot more - but surely it's not a race to the bottom.

FWIW OP I would be horrified too.

Please nobody share your stories on similar situations. It will set the OP off again

blueskies I can . People minimise and excuse neglect and bad parenting all the time on MN. Seen it for years.

And funny everyone seems to think it OK to ridicule OP but not the mum setting her kid up for a lifetime of obesity and diabetes.

Don't ever go to the Sistene Chapel OP

I get it OP. I'd feel exactly the same.