To be a bit shocked about a friend giving her six month old cake?

[ElphabaTheGreen]

At lunch today, a friend ordered a piece of Victoria sponge for pudding, sliced off a fair chunk (jam, buttercream and all) and fed it to her six month old, after this baby had had some kind of veggie mush, fruit purée, a petit filou and a rusk.

I have an 8mo and all this (esp cake) strikes me as sugar overload or AIBU and would other people do this?

(I said nothing to friend, by the way, and I'm reasonably sure my face remained neutrally arranged...just wondering if I'm being PFB about what I give DS.)

"I'm not a hygiene freak" hmmmmm. Just curious - Do you have loo brushes in your bathrooms?

No space I only have one bathroom. Haha.

Chortle :)

achillea Sat 26-Jan-13 22:45:49
"But air bacteria is fine (we breathe it after all) but it's when bacteria hits food and then develops on food after a few hours sitting there that it becomes problem."

There are different types of bacteria which grow in different types of environments. A slice of bread will not suddenly develop the kind of bacteria that causes gastro-enteritis simply be being exposed to the air or to warmth.

Depends how long it's been exposed though - and we don't know who's been breathing on the cake in the cafe and for how long. Also we don't know the cake's ingredients - honey? nuts? all that stuff.

I don't think allowing a child to eat a lot is a problem, it's whether it is safe to eat that is the issue.

I think people get rather precious about sugar. My parents really restricted sugar down to avoiding ketchup until I was old enough to buy my own sweets and chocolate. I then went crazy for anything sweet. I am taking a less fussed approach with DD and she is quite keen on sweets and chocolate and might have them once a week, but she isn't really that interested in cake. She also accepts that we don't have sweets or chocolate in the house very often, so doesn't clamour for them. I don't remember if she had cake at 6 months, but I would let her try anything I was having unless it had lots of salt or any honey in it. On the other hand, rusks are disgusting and on that basis we didn't feed them to DD.

I'd be surprised at the quantity and the cake, but then DD wouldn't progress from mush til about 10 months, so it's hard to compare. Personally I wouldn't give a baby cake before 1, although DD did have baby yoghurts and homemade low sugar muffins and they probably weren't much better.

Agree with breatheslowly - we don't give DD a lot of 'baby' products like rusks and sachets of puree as they don't taste like food!

breatheslowly out of interest I wonder how many people had a sugar restricted diet as a child and didn't crave sugar when they were older.

I cant believe how much people judge other parents. It is hard enough being a parent without being criticised by our so called friends. I agree that we don't know the portion sizes, she may have just packed what was left in the fridge, this may be the first time she's eaten that much or it could be every day. We don't know and it's also her business.

Fruit juice is the new sugar devil apparently.

I judge because I've seen what happens. My niece is obese and she's only 6 years old. She constantly has her face in the fridge looking for goodies and will eat nothing but macaroni or potatoes as savoury food. Her parents are also very overweight (well one is slim now because of a gastric band but that doesn't count imo) and they feed her sweets all the time.

I have one overweight and one v. skinny - not sure how it happened but anyway I was checking their weight the other day on the fitfor life nhs thingy and the range for children is very wide. Children have to be extremely heavy to be obese according to the guidelines - by which time it's too late to be able to change things easily. I do wish doctors would step in earlier with this, it's all about habits and they seem to ignore it for too long.

I have to say im one of these mothers that give the kids and babies a bit of what im having.Now only my babies not any one elses and funny enough ive never had a problem

You do realise a little bit of what you fancy does oyu good ,why would it be any different for a baby.

And none of mine where fussy they ate whatever was given

My daughter's first finger food was a profiter roll, she thoroughly enjoyed it too. I don't think solid food is so much about nutrition at this stage, they get that from their milk, its more about learning to eat.

I became obese as a young adult, my Mum was very careful regarding my diet, and restricted sugary fatty foods. As soon as I left home, I discovered all these goodies at the Supermarket and went mad for them. My children have cake and crisps now and then, so don't see it as a special thing. My youngest who started on profiteroles will always choose fruit and veg over anything processed now, she is 2.5.

You weaned her on profiteroles?

Yes

The very first solid food that she was given and that she ate herself was a profiterole. From then on, she had pieces of what we were eating, we just used to put bits on her tray, and she ate some of it.

And as for it being too much, you don't know-u should mind ur own business ans be glad all u have to worry about is a non problen. ..

Daughter eating Profiterole

Fruit puree and petit filou have sugar in them.
I think its easy to become precious about this kind of thing. Everything in moderation and well, she wasn't feeding the child methadone now, was she?

What did the police say?

"Of course you're more than aware of how much sugar is in breast milk right?"

Hahahahaha! :o

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Achillia I dont want to worry you but boiling and cooling food doesnt sterilise it. At all.