to give my daughter chocolate?

[SpiraelingSnowflakes]

Ok, a brief bit of background first!

DD is a week shy of 6 months old. She is a bottomless pit hungry baby and enjoys 10+ long BF's per day alongside 3 healthy meals of porridge/fruit/vegetables/yoghurt/etc. Spoon fed currently, but I'm planning on doing a combo with BLW imminently.

For Christmas, we are going down to visit my parents (weather permitting). A few weeks ago my Mum suggested letting my DD have her first taste of chocolate on Christmas Day. She proposed some chocolate buttons.

I countered this with suggesting just one chocolate button, melted (and allowed to cool!) into some baby porridge. As a one-off special treat for Christmas, rather than becoming a regular meal-!

AIBU to allow chocolate at all?

Perfect, you didn't sound critical as far as I am concerned. I am also quite interested in how things are done so differently by various countries.

AIBU to send DH to the shops to buy me a packet of chocolate buttons? Mmmmmm chocolate....

My dc3 is 7 months and mostly blw - she can't get yoghurt or cereal in quickly enough without me helping her with the spoon. She loves food. This evening she was getting stuck into salmon and pasta. Afterwards we had some Christmas cake and she had a small bit. Dd1 doesn't like so had a few chocolates and dd2 had one. She was very enthusiastic about both. As a family we eat together, we eat the same. No added salt. Cooked from fresh ingredients and from scratch every day. The only thing I won't give her is honey or peanuts. We'll be having dessert a bit over the next week but then we won't again for months. I'm not giving her chocolate as a treat but I'm not going to deny her what we're all eating. Food is a social thing and we love our communal dinners.

At about 6.5 mos old dd2 who was in a wrap sling on my front and grabbed some dark chocolate filled with cherry summat alcoholic out of my hand and put it in her mouth. She was so fast and I so shocked, I didn't retrieve it. Plus the look she gave me was almost 'don't you dare try' so I thought she'd spit it out but didn't.

Perfectstorm - I really cannot understand how you do not see a difference between the natural difference in breast milk an fruit to choc sweetness but hey, we all entitled to our own opinion :)

Bubbly - I completely agree about seein no point about giving a baby chocs. Buy each to thier own and all that - there are worse things! Lol

msklo

i did not call anyone po faced! not even in my vocab!!!

but take a CHILL PILL and either way, when millions of children are starving and dont have enough water, to fret over a fucking chocolate button...ai ai ai

YANBU to let her have choc. But YABU for one button in porridge. Purrrrrrrrrrrrlease. Let her have the packet, goo on...(I say this as a parent who was feeding her babies choc ice cream at 6 months)

Ok porcamiseria

But you did ask who is more annoying which seemed unnecessary and rude and sarky and why say it if not to be nasty?! Totally uncalled for