To be a bit (ok, a lot) judgey about this?

[midori1999]

Someone I know has posted on Facebook (yes, yes, I know!) that their 10 week old baby has just eaten half a jar of baby food. Apparently due to the baby's incessant hunger and although they are aware of the 6 month guideline for weaning, that's not suitable for their baby because he is just so hungry.

Same baby has also been pictured in a baby walker periodically over the last 4 weeks, propped up/squashed in with a blanket as obviously they are far too young to sit in it unaided.

The same family give their 2 year old coke in a bottle.

I know it's none of my business, but I can't help but feel these things are just a symptom of wanting their baby to be 'grown up'.

They are unsafe anyway though, parental supervision or not. You think entire countries went to the very extreme length of banning them because they are perfectly safe?

Yes Penis I think exactly that. If they were truly dangerous for a child's development, they'd be banned in every Western country. But they're not.

They will be.

I don't think I've ever quoted a speed reached but I have posted before about the dangers of baby walkers. Invariably I am answered by people who apparently never take their eyes of their dcs whilst in them. Well good for you - but that's not what everybody is doing because babywalkers cause more accidents than anything else. Physiotherapists (who know a bit about development of muscles) would like them banned. Several countries have banned them and the only reason walkers remain on sale in the UK today is I think because extensive modification has been done. Fact remains that your baby gets nothing fronm a walker they can't get from other toys AND they are potentially at greater risk of accidental harm. If anybody is reading this and has a walker at home from before 2005 (when safety modifications were made) then please throw it away now.

And good to know that you are better informed than all the experts, working groups, doctors, parents of injured children and entire countries that know how dangerous they are.
You should have some kind of badge. A shiny one.

Oh but governments think that banning things is fun dont you know?

I agree, Ohhelp, that they are trying to make their child seem advanced. Not sure about the sleeping through, as I don't think solid food is any more filling than milk and there are good sleepers who just get milk. And coke in a bottle, by which I assume OP means a feeding bottle, is just disastrous for teeth and it is quite probable that this child will need extractions under general anasthetic. I would definitely feel tempted to say something about this.

OTOH, DS loved his baby walker. It kept him amused before he was mobile. Though obviously not at 6 weeks. We lived in a flat, so risks were minimal and he stopped using it after he started cruising round th furniture at 9 months.

if it were me I would hide their status updates but post info on my own page about the benefits of weaning later.

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