Should baby drink Coke or go thirsty?

[FoundDoveInaSoaplessPlace]

We are travelling in SE Asia with a baby and toddler.
Yesterday our planned journey of a 2 hour drive and 30 minute ferry took a total of nine hours. Because of the road delays ( road works and further on a bad accident) we missed the ferry and had to get into a small local boat.
It was hot and humid all day but we got through it ok until the final leg on the boat. Our 12 mo baby got very thirsty and the only drink left was a new bottle of Diet Coke. Baby got extremely agitated and our friend poured some into her bottle as I was holding onto our toddler.

DH who was holding her refused to give it to her and said she would have to wait for clean water. She screamed for 15 minutes until she wore herself out and fell asleep. It was dark and the sea was choppy so I couldn't stand up to give it to her.

DH is extremely anti sugar but AIBU to think that he could have put his principles aside on this one occasion?

Ridiculous not to give diet coke... It's like saying you'd rather let someone starve than let them have pizza and chips...

Yes, diet coke's not great for a 12 mo, but dehydration is FAR worse!

The op says the baby wasn't dehydrated.

Most certainly would have give to her! Any fluid is better than nothing

I love the comment about sailing experience. Was he captain of this local row boat then?

So the purpose of this thread was to wind people up? Every time some sort of agreement was reached you came on to substantially change the story. Sounds like goadyfuckery to me, unless you are still after a pat on the back.

Your dh shouldnt be the one making these decisions. His thinking is flawed and his behaviour was unhelpful.
Anyone trying to stop me relieving my child's thirst in an "extreme" circumstance like this would not come off well.

I feel people aren't reading the whole thread.

Op now says the baby wasn't dehydrated

Better planning required all round.
And another example of why breastfeeding beyond a year is a good idea.

There is no sugar in Diet Coke. Plenty of other stuff though which although not desirable for babies is better than dehydration. Was this journey absolutely necessary? There is no way I would take a journey on a small boat with a toddler and young baby. Sounds like a complete nightmare and something better done when they were older.

As my OP said - the crossing was 30 minutes. DH has plenty of sailing experience, knew baby had had lots of fluids and decided if there was only Coke to hand for a few minutes, she wasn't drinking that*

That isnt really what your OP insinuated at all really.

What a load of old bollocks.

Lol

As my OP said - the crossing was 30 minutes. DH has plenty of sailing experience, knew baby had had lots of fluids and decided if there was only Coke to hand for a few minutes, she wasn't drinking that

Thats kinda the opposite of what your OP said, actually. You do know that its still there and we can check?

I don't think you're stupid or unprepared. Sometimes things just happen which in the cold light of day it's easy to criticise about. It's happened to us and everyone on here.

However, diet coke has no sugar and coke doesn't have very much caffeine and i'd expect someone so passionate about it to realise that

Tbf it is only dramatic posters here who decided she was dehydrated, down have decided she was at deaths door from it. OP just said thirsty

Actually she said very thirsty and extremely agitated.

And shehasn't answered how it is that her obsessed with sugar DH doesn't know there is none in diet coke?

This was a "very thirsty" one year old.
The conditions were hot and humid.
The objections to the drink were related to not being in favour of sugar. (Not present in diet coke btw)
She was "extremely agitated"
The question was should she have diet coke or go thirsty?
Not "should she just have a can of coke if she fancies it on a short journey when in five minutes she can drink from a fresh water supply?"

Diet coke once sort of kept me alive when I was so dehydrated the only place a drip could be put in me was in my neck.

And it was repeatedly brought for me by medical staff instead of meals

Oh God.

OP, you are either all over the place mentally or taking the piss or both.

That being said, I would still have given baby a bit of Coke if she was that thirsty, even if she wasn't on verge of dehydration. I still think your DH was being too strict.

But I don't think it's worth a thread, either...

Don't hydration fluids have sugar in them? Would a hospital have to take out a court order to give the baby fluids against a crank fathers wishes? That's what they had to do for my brother. He was left alive but has never lived.

I may be wrong but isn't flat come reommended if you are dehydrated after vomiting?

Op completely changed her tune. Firstly it was an agitated thirsty baby crying themselves to sleep in desperation. It's normal for posters to assume the baby continued to get thirstier and therefore started to dehydrate. Info not provided that the crossing was 30 mins and water was available if difficult to access. I don't think melodrama had anything to do with it. Op has changed the story and some later posters now see some earlier posts as dramatic.