AIBU in thinking that people that pour tea into their baby's bottle...

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I've just seen a woman in the park pour a cup of tea into her baby's bottle, add milk and then give it to her baby. Is this some sort of chavy behaviour or do normal people do this?

AIBU in thinking WTF

That's a good point. Would it have been "chavvy" if it was in a mini tea cup?

I am only alive today because my nan gave me tea in a bottle! I would not drink milk and was hospitalised because of dehydration. So my nan started spoon feeding me very milky tea. This is before the days of decaf too. My mum was terrified the hv would find out but as my nan pointed out it was that or I would have been tube fed.

Ds asks for sips of my tea (I still drink it weak... just not as weak as I used to).

An occasional cup of weak tea is unlikely to cause any problem, we don't know the extent of the tea abuse going on here though.

My mum did this.

I'm sure that she'd be delighted to discuss her chaviness with you. I imagine she may refer to you as an uptight arse with nothing better to do, but that's just a guess.

Debeezandbirds get used to the phrases 'bit am no a ned' 'awrite doll wit's happnin' and the classic 'gee us a gammy'

Neds are quite enjoyable as long as they are at the begining of the bucky bottle :)

And for the record I've never had an iron deficiency.

Are you violent though magento

Are you looking at me Pickled? Are You Looking At Me???

I had tea in my botty too. Fiiiiigggghhhhhttttt!

Bring it on!

Oh what's the name of that poster who has a tea menu for her guests?

I bet it was her

LMAO @ lola88. When DP feels amorous he asks "Wanna come see my motor" in his full weegie (sp?) accent. Also if I'm gardening ask if I'm kate bush in the style of Still Game.

Did she have the tea in a flask, then add the milk or did she get it from a takeway kiosk in the park? I'm confused as to the logistics of it all. I can barely rip the plastic cage top of a fruit shoot for my children at the park without causing some sort of spillage.

My dd3 (15 months) gets really excited when she sees me with a mug of tea, she likes the cup. She asks for a taste and gets some [shrugs], oh and she still has two bottles of milk a day, I really can't get excited about it.

I love Glaswegians I looked after a load of them for work once and they were hysterical. I would even have shared my tea with them.

I remember the last tea thread and I totally do not understand the problem with weaned children having tea. Not only do I happily do it, I cannot even understand why other people wouldn't.

My DD (2.4) is obsessed with tea and is never happier than when sitting on DH's lap with her own cup of (admittedly very weak) tea. And I am probably the exact polar opposite of the description of chav.

So stick that in your bottle and drink it !

Oh what's the name of that poster who has a tea menu for her guests?

She's Finnish and (damn that thread) it's her fault that I now have one too

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Thank you Hecate for sad and thoughtful post.

Personally I'd find it a bit weird seeing a toddler drinking tea, but only because I'm not used to it at all. I don't think it's right giving LOs caffeinated drinks because of the iron/calcium absorption issues but how are we to know whether it was caffeinated or not.

All of those who think it's fine - would you feel the same way about coffee?

It wasn't coffee though was it? Or red bull? That's a bit of a pointless question.

An occasional drink of milky weak tea is not going to pose any health threats.

Well coffee and tea aren't that dissimilar in terms of caffeine content. And we don't know that it was "milky weak tea" - OP says the Mum added milk but could've just been a dash.

Red Bull is the devil and a completely different question.

Both my DSes had tea in sippy cups from about 15 months, it was about 95% milk, 5% tea. They never had anything in a bottle.

Yeah but we don't know it wasn't either. I'd be surprised if she brewed up a right strong builders tea.

Coffee is stronger in my opinion, but I drink tea very weak.

How do we even know it was not decaffeinated?

Point is op said it was chavvy. She didn't seem overly concerned about the iron issue.

Completely agree Pickled - as I said in my first post we're not to know whether it was caffeinated or not.

I was just curious about how people would feel seeing a toddler drink coffee - which could be weak, milky coffee. After all tea/coffee are both only as strong as you brew them.

Kind of ignored the question about whether it was 'chavvy' or not as I found it a bit absurd.

I had tea in my bottle as a baby and I also gave it to my son. Guess what? We are both completely unharmed by the evil beverage and my son - who never got a taste for fizzy drinks - has beautiful perfect teeth with no fillings. So ner.