To ask if you would give your nearly 7 month old chocolate?

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Actual chocolate, not like a jar of chocolate baby pudding. I'm talking chocolate buttons for Easter etc.

I'm just feeling pressured into it right now, and I don't want to but am I being a PFB mother?

I haven't seen anyone recoil in horror on here perhaps I've missed some posts. If people choose to give their babies sugary snacks that's up to them but it doesn't mean that those who prefer not to are somehow depriving their child. Different strokes and all that.

DS2 is 11 months and he has had a couple of buttons. Can't see the problem tbh. As long as he has healthy meals, cereal, yoghurts, fruit, veg, meat etc then how is it going to harm him.

Obviously stuffing them full of masses of easter eggs is not the thing to do either. Everything in moderation. And if it is that full of crap, why do you let older children/yourselves eat it at all.

I have been given quite a few easter eggs for all my dc as we have a big family. TBH most of them either get finished off by me or dh as the dc just eat the same amount of chocolate they usually do so if we don't they are hanging around for months.

No not that age. Ds is 14 months and got 5 . I gave him a dew tiny pieces of one and ate the rest, will be doing that for the foreseeable future. Why the hell Would a 6 month baby need an Easter egg . Some people are lacking in common sense. A little baby toupy would be much better, or an item f clothing, you can get tops for a fe pounds much more useful.

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Yes because it will do them absolutely no long term harm whatsoever. It is one chocolate button not a sewing needle.

If it's a matter of giving a 7mth old a chocolate button at Easter, I wouldn't blink an eye about it. It would be the same as giving them a little Xmas cake or something. No big deal IMO. I would not, however, be giving them a whole packet or a chocolate bar as a regular thing.

I sympathise though OP. My family are lousy at nutrition and think nothing of filling small kids with crap. We were at my cousin's confirmation when DS2 was less than 6mths old. My Mum was wittering on about giving him a taste of the cake and I said no. Next thing I knew, she had got a blob on her finger and put it in his mouth. I didn't want to cause a scene at my cousin's party with everyone there but I took DS back swiftly and hissed at her "NO MORE." Absolutely livid.

It wasn't a chocolate button though it was 4 easter eggs and a chocolate mini roll cake. Bit of a difference.

My MIL bought an egg for DS1 when he was 9 mths old.
I'd already stated no chocolate and when she said she was buying it I said I'd eat it in front of her.
She wasn't impressed when I carried out my promise! [bugrin|
I just said 'tough, my child, MY rules'.

No. Not at that age

No the opening post says chocolate buttons.

Nope!

If you need an excuse tell them that in Italy (and I'm guessing a few other European countries) it's on the 'not for under 1s' list as it's too difficult to digest.

Chocolate is not the only source of fat and sugar a child will be exposed to. They actually need sugar and fat to grow and one chocolate button, or even ten, will not hurt them when given as a rare treat.

Binks the debate isn't about whether it has nutritional value or not, it's that the OP feels pressured by other people who don't respect her decision as the child's mother.

No, not a chance.

I did but only tiny amounts, one or two buttons if that. Had two easter eggs last year at 7mths and lasted until christmas.

I mentioned light-heartedly to my family that 7 month DS wouldn't be having chocolate this year and they were great - bought him some Easter books and toys. My cousin posted a packet of chocolate buttons for him. I thanked her, but didn't tell her that DH ate them!

If she'd given them in person, I'd have let him have a couple (secretly being a little annoyed). However, a chocolate mini roll and 4 eggs sounds OTT! There are so many lovely little Easter things you can get a baby that I don't see why relatives need to buy chocolate for under ones!

I think evaluating the potential risk is an important factor.

Neither of mine had chocolate that young. Even now they have it very rarely.
They don't suffer and properly appreciate it when they do have it.

DS is 19 months and had his first ever dessert, a coconut macaroon, this weekend. I don't see the point in feeding them tons of sweet things when they're tiny.

I wouldn't for my own child.

But then again I would give sweets or chocolate to the parents of a child who said it was ok to give to their child. And wouldn't for one whose parents didnt think it ok no matter what my relationship to the child.

But tbh at Easter I rarely get chocolate for any child if I want to get them a treat I would normal get a book or colouring stuff with a Easter theme but would make it age appropriate because so many people besiege kids with chocolate.

I have never been able to get my head round the obsession some people have with food and other people's kids.

I have a friend who I tend to avoid now because she can't stop herself giving babies tastes of everything she has no matter what it is anything from chillies to gin even if allergies are involved.

My youngests granddad couldn't stop himself from shoving cake in his mouth when he was about 5/6 weeks old but he could manage to wait untill my back was turned to do it. It infuriated me.

No. Simple as that. Although I wasn't able to be quite as vigilant with ds2 and I'd been with ds1 but I still think 7 months is a little young to get chocolate.

No, I would not. And if someone did it without my knowledge I would be VERY upset.

DS is a bit over 7 months old now, and did not get any chocolate for Easter (I wouldn't have minded if relatives had given him some, I would just have eaten them myself ). I won't be giving him a taste until he's a fair bit older - chocolate is a bloody laxative FFS! So no, OP, YANBU. You're the one who will be scraping that miniroll-poonami off her legs, back, armpits etc later on.

Plenty of time later for chocolates. Truly horrified at the tales here of selfish adults trying to stuff sweet things into really tiny babies - I would be absolutely livid if anyone attempted to feed my baby anything behind my back, that's utterly unacceptable.

Also - "don't tell mummy" is a really shit thing to say to a child - I don't want my child thinking that it's okay for an adult to ask them to keep secrets from me, I can't expect a small child to be able to tell when it's harmless and when it's not.

I did.

But my kids are my kids, and yours are yours. Telling you to chill the fuck out is just plain rude.