Toddler gave my 12 week old jam!!

[Punok]

Was making jam tarts with the toddler and turned my back for all of 30 seconds to close the fridge - turned back to see the little bugger giving her 12 week old baby brother (sat in his bouncer) a bloody spoonful of strawberry jam!! 🫠

Do I need to do anything?!

@Punok the hospital told my parents to give me evaporated milk 🫣

I weaned my daughter at 16 weeks.

Awww that’s so cute 🥰
my third was fed petit filou at 10 weeks by his big sister, who cheerfully told me ‘mummy the baby can have proper food, he ate all of it’.
weaned him at four months…not on petit filou though 😂

What a brilliant first taste of food 🤣

Got a family of these. All in their 80s and 80s now! And their own teeth.

Me too but I'm going off mumsnet guidelines.

Not 30 years ago they weren’t not via official guidance anyway. The guidance was wean at 4 months.

Fair enough. I had no choice. Daughter has allergies and was losing weight rapidly.

When my firstborn was five months old I was absolutely furious with MIL because she had put her finger in DS's mouth with a tiny smear of chocolate on it.

When my secondborn was five months old, I turned around from giving his toddler brother a chocolate chip cookie to discover he'd got his hands on one too. I gave him another one. And took pictures.

A lot a lot of secondborns get introduced to solids this way. This will be a funny story very soon.

Lucky kid😁

Yep. Mine is 38. The guidance back then was to start weaning from 3 to 4 months. Starting with "baby rice" then introducing tins or jars of pureed fruit and vegetables, then vegetables with pureed chicken etc.

Don't worry, when I was around 3 and my baby sister aged about 18 months old I asked her if she wanted to try mustard. She nodded and said yes so I dabbed some on her tongue. I absolutely knew that mustard was "burny". I had a smack for that (around 1971 for the pearl clutchers). That wasn't my first or last smack because I was an absolute sod.

My eldest gave his baby brother a rich tea biscuit when he was about 3 months old. He was perfectly fine, if a bit put out when I took the biscuit off him

He will be absolutely fine - and don't freak out if his next nappy poo is a bit pink

My mother fed my 12 week old (pfb!) baby mint choc chip ice cream. I was absolutely gobsmacked. This is a woman who was a midwife and didn't allow me any form of refined sugar until I was about 5!

Oh my love. I can’t stop
laughing, it’s not what you wahted but he will be totally fine.

When mine were tiny the advice was to wean from about 16 weeks. I still remember my youngest, who was preemie, getting a chip at 16 weeks so 8 corrected and the sheer joy on her face!

Sorry - she’s 20 now and incredible!

My 30 year old son was weaned at 8 weeks on the advice of my health visitor 🤫. In hindsight he probably just needed a dummy but hey ho, in those days you accepted the advice of the experts. He's still a skinny one that eats like a horse 🤣.

@BibbityBobbityToo "What were called hungrier babies were being weaned at 6 weeks on 'baby rice' 30 years ago, HV approved...They'll be fine"

Just for info- obviously the OP's baby will be fine!- but my dd is nearly 30 and I weaned her at 6 months. The recommended age for weaning then was 4 months at the earliest- I have her red book to prove it!

My 24 year olds first food was almost a salt and vinegar chrisp fed to her by big sister. I got it out of her mouth quickly. She didn't even seem to mind the vinegar taste.

Now ita a funny story at the time I worried like you do

My health board didn't have whatever a Red Book is. I'm telling you my experience and you can have my memories to prove it 🙄.

@BibbityBobbityToo Fair enough. You must have had a rogue HV!

I agree, my eldest is 27 (also no red book in my area) and the advice was 12-16 weeks, I got her to 14 weeks before starting her on solids

In the olden days we'd all be weaning at 12 weeks anyway. Admittedly not with jam

He's perfectly fine (up his usual 8 times a night 🙄). I expect he thinks breastmilk is very boring now.