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?

No I wouldn't have but i would have smiled sweetly, accepted the eggs and scoffed them all myself later.

I didn't give my pfb any, but my 9 months old just helps himself to the older kids chocs if he can reach them or they drop bits on the floor.

By the way, my ds is two and has had chocolate since he was around one and he's never tantrums in a shop because he wants chocolate. He is a daddy eater though, despite me doing baby led weaning.

Another thing my inlaws do and I've never understood this, is to give chocolate and multipacks of crisps etc as presents

Very bizarre - they'll buy a present for birthday and also add chocolates/crisps etc in with the present!

I've just thought of this thread at DGMiL's house. When we got there she told me she wasn't sure whether to get DS an egg or not so would he be okay just with a bag of milkybar buttons? He's 15 weeks and obviously not weaned

Will do
A few buttons I don't mind but really...

I know, DP just looked like and said he only has milk

I would give mine a taste yes but this really is a 'your child your rules' thing. It is not ok to go over a parent's head on something like this. DD is 1 and has been given 3 easter eggs, all of them however were given with a wink and just happen to be ones that me and DH like [bugrin].

First baby no, second baby yes without a second thought!

God. I hate that.

Thank you for all participating

I reluctantly gave my 10mo a weeny 50g Lindt gold bunny (only the best for my PFB). He ate the ears off quite enthusiastically - so a total of about a teaspoon of chocolate - then tried to feed the rest to the dogs. It got intercepted before it got to them, don't worry! He won't be having any more chocolate for a while because I also just don't see the point while they're still just as happy with something nutritious.

A friend, who I posted an AIBU about because she fed her then 6 month old cake after puréed fruit, a rusk and a Petit Filiou, gives her now 8 month old chocolate buttons and Wotsits. I got a bit scorched for being judgey-pants (and fair enough too) but really? Really??

fucking researcher/journo

Oh dear, really?

I think DS2 was about that age for his first Easter, I encouraged his relatives to buy him eggs, gave him a couple of chocolate buttons to enter into the spirit of the thing. And then ate the rest myself. [bugrin]
Win/win

I'm not a journo or anything! I'm a genuine MNetter!
Research my history if you like, I was just being polite for people for taking the effort to reply

A bit of chocolate Won't do a 7 month old any harm. Just going do it too often x

"than you for participating"
okaaaay

Sorry if I worded it wrong.
I've a long running thread here on OTBT. I'm did a NC at Christmas. If you'd like to think I'm a journo feel free, I'm a 23 year old first time single mum seeking some guidence that was all, I shouldn't have to justify that, just because I tried to be polite to people 'participating' on a thread when I'm sure they had better things to do with their time than help me.

I don't think you should give anything you don't want to, but all this holding out til aged 11 months or whatever is pointless in the long run. I remember my cousins' mum doing exactly the same, no sugar at all at the grandparent's house, no easter treats even til age about three, it was all a big fuss and very earnest (no jam, etc) My cousins are now in their late twenties and eat like everyone else does! My mum was very restrictive around food, again only a few tiny sweets once a week, and unfortunately I am a sweet scoffer now- thirty years later.

Nothing wrong with trying to keep children away from chocolate as long as you realise you can't turn the tide in the end. They will grow up, they will make their own choices, and forbidden fruit is often the sweetest.

I don't think you're a journalist, op. It's hardly article worthy news anyway is it! 'Mums divided on Easter chocolate issue'.

Did think it was a bit of an odd thing to go undercover for

Thank you! I thought my NN could be a bit of a clue to me being clueless

You'll muddle through. Best thing to remember with a baby is don't sweat the small stuff.

Now no asking us what we think of the situation in Syria or bedroom tax! :o

Dc1 - no absolutely not. No chocolate until well after 1st birthday
Can't honestly remember with dc2 & 3
Dc4 - was past caring, probably dc1, 2 & 3 had been feeding him chocolate from hours old (joking obviously but you get my point ). Almost certainly he'd had a chocolate button or 2 by 7mths as he was given whatever we were eating to eat.