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?

@DharmaInitiativeLady surely not?

When DS had food poisoning and severe D&V for three days, the GP advised me to give him flat coke to bring his sugars and fluid up. It worked and he didn't need to be admitted. Don't judge.

So I've actually weaned a few kids off energy drinks, sports drinks and coke. But not by looking down my nose and patting myself on the back for being so enlightened

Well done. Before or after their teeth were destroyed or all had to be removed?

She could have gone off in search of a tap I guess if she knew where one was?

Yeah she could have. Or made sure she had an appropriate drink for the baby with her that most parents, even less than brilliant ones, would manage?

I can’t believe the apologists for child neglect on this post.

Really? Sometimes a child's milk teeth being rotten are the least of anyone's worries. I see you're being sanctimonious on another thread though, YouBumder.

I've seen children who have been fed protein shakes/meal replacement shakes instead of actual food because the parents were unable to cook for them due to addiction. It's heartbreaking and quite common. People are so sheltered.

Giving a child Coke is not child neglect, for actual fucks sake.

Yes that happened.

I live in Greggs [sausage roll] land and I have never seen a baby drinking coke from a bottle.

I'm not the generation of today, btw. I'm probably older than your mum.

Ffs Mumsnet pisses me right off!! People live in such a sheltered world. No one knows any of the real sh!t that goes on. It's horrific out there - under the very fine and thin veneer of white middle class world - the poverty, abuse, sec trafficking, day to day survival! Ffs!!!! This place gets me down because it's so UNREAL!!

Wake up and smell the shit people - this is by no means the worst of what goes on it doesn't even sail close.

IsThisIt82 Honestly, they just have no idea do they? It's unreal how because they don't see it/know about it, it can't possibly go on. It's so frustrating.

Coke is more expensive than water so I never understand the people who rant about not living in the real world...

When DD was about 3 I was driving her to London from the North West, so that she could have her single measles injection. We got stuck in a huge traffic jam on the M6. The only drink I had left was a bottle of caffeine free Diet Coke. I poured some into her sippy cup but a few minutes later there was a huge bang and the lid of the cup blew off.

Oh how we laughed.

She has perfect teeth by the way. Aged 19 and ne'er a filling.

gamerchick when I was a child, in the 70s, weak, sugary tea was a perfectly normal drink for small children. It was a sign of growing up a bit to learn to drink it without the sugar, but no biggie if you didn't.

There's a saying, when you point one finger, three point back at you

If people are so horrified by this, what are you doing about poverty, helping newcomers, child neglect, education? Or is it more fun to blame.

I'd rather I got insults on here than the lovely women I work with, but honestly you have no idea.

@IsThisIt82 I've never said this is the worst thing that has ever happened.

I know worse things are happening, much worse. I know first hand what neglect/ poverty looks and feels like.

This isn't a competition.

What has giving a baby Coke got to do with sex trafficking?

missgiddy more fool you for your vaccination paranoia.

I've never said this is the worst thing that has ever happened

Then why not only judge someone on a snapshot moment you know absolutely nothing about, cry over it, then get so worked up you post about it on the internet?

Bizarre behaviour.

Nothing wrong with single vaccines.

Is anyone else wondering what the hell the Sistine Chapel reference is about?

Screaming.

If you don't know what the Sistene Chapel reference is, you need to go to Classics right now and read the thread

@SimulationTheorist I don't only post about worst case scenarios, and you are interested enough in this thread to read and reply!

I don't think anyone is saying it the worst thing to ever happen and that there are far worse things to be going on in the world.
That does not mean people can not be upset at what the OP is talking about.

There is worse things going on in the world than 99% of the threads on here but we can still discuss and be disgusted by the lesser occurrences.

The biggest threat to children in the Uk is obesity. It affects poorer children the most. It is stupid to brush these issues off as trivial.