to think that she is doing the wrong thing as a parent?

[HootOnTheBeach]

Really didn't want to use the word 'bad'

DP's darling sister uploaded photos of her 9~ month old in McDonald's eating fries and chicken nuggets.

We KNOW junk food is bad, why give it to such a young baby? Why give it to your child at all?!

Its about balance?if its the regular nutrition,then yes its problematic
Otherwise,i think your being somewhat harsh. Os there an underlying issue,do you like her
Food addiction isnt in itself robust phenomena,given one can be addicted to anything

Well according to mcds themselves a nugget meal contains 1.1g of salt!

Worra - that was probably my brother - or SIL (licking the salt off). They went proper ape shit once when my Mum passed PFB one she hadn't licked first - bleurgh. The hilarious thing is, my Mum was having to keep a check on herself not to say anything about PFG being given chips and not something better for her

I just sit and rock in the corner and pray I was adopted.

I would be amazed and astounded if a 9mo had more than a fee fries and a gum on a nugget.

That includes a banana milkshake flanjabelle

Look, no-one here has said that this is the ideal cuisine to raise our babies on.

Just that a hungry baby was fed a couple of nuggets and a few fries and that doesn't make it the end of the world.

The OP obviously has a problem with this woman and appears to have posted this, expecting everyone to join her in berating her for her parental choice.

In the absence of any other damning information, the majority just can't be arsed to get in a flap.

Latte!!

Harold I assure you my dd could eat a hell of a lot more than that. She loves solid food and has taken to it like a duck to water.

Wot Worra said.

Don't let her loose in Maccy d then.

Of course there is nothing wrong with hoiking judgy pants at a 9 month old having Macy D's. As long as its just mentioned here and not to the mothers its fine. Big difference between 9 month old who has only been weaning for approx 3-5 month and even a 2/3 year old.

Harold believe me, I won't.

I was out today and we ended up out later than we realised and got a MacDonalds and older child had a happy meal, I wouldn't have considered buying my 8 month old one too. Older child has a few years of this eating lark under his belt, has a good diet generally, in proportion it's not a big deal occasionally.

Before they're even one though, when it's all so new to their system, it doesn't sit right with me to feed them crap while they're still adjusting to food itself, you know, give them a chance.

I went into Boots and bought her a pouch of baby food to have for convenience when she can't have something proper, it honestly wouldn't have occurred to me to feed her nuggets.

Yes, they can have one gram a day, but if they have tuna, cheese and bread for lunch that's pretty much it. I also don't feed my baby sugary cereals, pasta sauce in jars or low fat yogurts, it's not one or the other, none of that is particularly suitable for a baby, and not hard to avoid for a few months.

But why mention it here?

Why does the OP need company in her hoiking of pants at someone she clearly doesn't like anyway?

It smacks of pure nastiness to me.

She fed her own child a few nuggets and fries. In the grand scheme of things, it's nothing to start a thread about.

If the OP is so concerned, perhaps she should have spoken directly to the mother instead of starting this thread?

I've got my older DS a meal and let my 9 mo gum a few fries and a bit of nugget.

It's not such a huge deal in balance.

I don't suppose she's in there every day.

It might be her idea of a nice treat. I wouldn't call SS just yet..

I'm not sure that age, or how long they've been weaning for is the biggest factor. Surely it's frequency. A 9 month old who only has one and then doesn't have another one for months and eats well the rest of the time has got to be better than a 2/3 year old that has one weekly with a slightly dubious diet the rest of the time.

It's not exactly a one way street from a single maccy ds to a lifetime of obesity, diabetes and hypertension.

I probably wouldn't do it but that doesn't make anyone that does a bad parent and it's really not something to get all pearl clutchy and judgemental about.

I guess I don't like anything that starts with "why post". This is an open forum for people to post what they like. If they get a flaming for WHAT they post then fine, but not for posting in the first place.

My 'why post' thought is more about the reason behind it.

It tells me far more about the OP than her DP's sister

So I'd rather hoik my judgy pants at her, than at a woman feeding her own child a bit of food.

I won't go as far as to start a thread about her though, just so people can agree with me

ODFOD

We end up in McDonald's because it's appropriate for DS1's allergies and intolerances, and with very few options for eating on the move. It's not brilliant for Ds2, but he eats well otherwise. Both DSs like their veg. They can demolish piles of broccoli. They eat few sweets and junky fillers. They are healthy, energetic and have a healthy display of ribs. So yes, I give Mcdonalds to a 3rd old and 18 old, but in the big picture, I don't see an issue with it.

To everyone asking why I made a thread instead of speaking to her directly: because it didn't sit right with me and I wondered if IWBU given how bad processed food is and how babies need more care with food. Not sure how I could have expressed my concerns without coming across as 'judgey' seeing as I am judging her for feeding the baby junk food. DP agreed it's bad but doesn't want to start a row.

I didn't say anything to her because this is her PFB and there had been issues (not infertility as someone suggested upthread, but again irrelevant and I'm sorry I mentioned it) so she won't hear a word against her baby or parenting style, regardless of how valid a point may be.

Referred to her as DP's darling sister because if I said DP's DS would have looked like DP's son?

I wasn't doing anything other than trying to see if anyone agreed that feeding a 9MO fast food was bad, somehow ended up with people projecting agendas onto me and taking the piss. I wonder how differently this would have gone had I made a thread about wanting to take my baby to a fast food restaurant for a 'treat'.

Good god is she in there all the time?? In which case why would you post it on FB../? In my experience 9mo-3yo won't eat much from a happy meal anyway.

Referred to her as DP's darling sister because if I said DP's DS would have looked like DP's son?

Ah bless you. It's DSis. Or you could have just said sister.

Referred to her as DP's darling sister because if I said DP's DS would have looked like DP's son?

That's really quite funny