For wanting to stop this biscuit incident?

[Cbh1978]

Shopping centre. Tuesday afternoon. Warrington. Millies Cookies. Mother and (I think) her parents are with a child in a pushchair. Child aged six months approx.

They buy cookies, then give a whole one the size of the baby's head to the baby. Baby not overly impressed I have to say. Granny even remarked 'oh, don't you like it'?

Agggghhhhh!!!! I managed to resist stomping over but then wondered if I was then complicit in this.

10mins later I saw baby with just a stump of biscuit in her tiny hand. I just hope she had thrown the rest somewhere.

Perhaps it is just that I am a tad sensitive to sugar and salt etc issues. Our 11mth old has only had sugar and salt in bread. Have to confess I can't be bothered to make sugar-free bread but not so much as a Petit Filous has passed his lips. His first sugar rush will be his first birthday cake.

Really, they don't need it. Not even in stewed fruit.

Live and let live... Maybe. :-/

Yanbu

Sugar and salt is the food of the devil.

Evil, nasty fruit.

I wonder if that kid is in for a life time of crap food? Fast food when out, processed meals at home, crips, sweets, coke ... I know some people feed children that way and don't think of all the long term health issues attached. Sugar is seriously bad but people just don't realise.

Lol at the idea that a baby would choke on a soft cookie but presumably would be fine with a piece of sugar free bread or an organic rice cake.

I, for one, bloody hate the food police. My DD eats a healthy, well balanced diet. But, if I want to give her the occasional biscuit I bloody well will. (Admittedly, I perhaps would not have given her a biscuit at 6 months, but it still bloody annoys me when people sneer at her petit filous like it is poison) BUGGER OFF!

Are you ok, op? (Don't like to think you hoiked your judgey pants up so high they got stuck...)

Really they don't need it. Even in a first birthday cake.

Has anyone clutched their pearls and thought of the children yet?

Actual Lol at your 'Crimewatch' type opening.
YABU.

Child could have been older. Was very much a guesstimate. Could have been younger. Still very fragile and bendy looking. Very cute too. :-)
Thanks Monkeymamma. Wondered why my circulation was being cut off.
Have to say, would never become fully signed up member of the food police. Just surprised me. All sorts of things bother me, as they do all of us, but we usually find it's just not 'our' way. And I make loads of mistakes I know! Not at all self-righteous. Promise.

Bedmonster, now thinking of carrot first birthday cake. Made of just carrots...

Fuck me now I want a cookie the size of my head.

My 6mo DD is tiny - smaller than a friend's nearly 4mo DD (although friend's DD was a 9lb+ newborn compared to my DD's 5lb 9oz). It's getting scary the amount of food she's starting to pack away.

However, last night I decided not to allow Heinz rice pudding for pudding with tea as even though it fills her tummy so she sleeps well for the night, she was bouncing off the walls for over an hour until it wore off and she went to sleep.

Parents' problem, not yours. YABU.

may not have been 6 months old my dd2 was the size of a 6 month old baby at 14months....unless baby had a badge saying 6 months old today how can you know?? MYOB

I love giving DS sweet stuff. It makes him so happy

i once saw a mum fill a baby bottle with red can coke for her baby in arms. :(

'I can't be bothered to make sugar free bread'

Brilliant.

you can't be bothered to make sugar free bread - OMG what kind of mother are you

I remember taking my DS to a party once many moons ago and there was a mum there who was known to be rather militant about her child not having sweet stuff. He went missing for a bit and was found under the table gorging on chocolate cake.

You wanted to stop this biscuit related incident?
Wtf does it have to do with you???

Wonder how sugar free bread rises?

Wonder if I should contact SS about 11 month old child who has never had meat, fruit, cheese, veg, yoghurt etc and other sugar and salt containing toxins essential nutrients for a growing human being

Get a life...

My guess is you'll be a bit more chilled out by the time the second child comes along (if that's the plan). My first beloved child had no sugar until well past his first birthday. My daughter was weaned on chocolate buttons.

where, in all of that, was the incident? was it when the vein popped in the side of your head?

1st baby: everything whole grain, absolutely no sugar or salt ever- fussy little sod and a total salad dodger to boot, obsessed with chocolate & crisps.

2nd baby: eats a bit of everything and always has done. Allowed to try whatever food is around- eats everything, scoffs salad, curries, stops eating when full regardless of whether she is allowed another biscuit or chocolate.

Ha! Guess you're right Meggymoodie.
LilyVonSchtupp, does sugar make bread rise?? Fair point re:SS. He does have some salt in cheese, bread etc and does have yoghurt, just sugar-free type. Sugar in fruit too of course. Different type I think. Am no dietician. Just hope he ultimately has less rubbish put through his lovely little bod that I put through my (not so lovely) bod, and at the mo I am responsible for what he eats.
Love the story about the chocolate cake. That would be very funny. And very likely! But would never dictate at someone else's party. I know someone who won't let her four year old have crisps, chocolate etc and is really militant about it. Feel really sorry for the kid who is probably made to feel different from his friends. I am NOT going to be like that. Honest. Just feel a weird sense of collective responsibility where babies and very young children are concerned.
Will go onto Amazon to buy a life. Thanks Shellywelly.