"Baby has never had sugar"

[itsascottishbaby]

Was chatting to friends today, we all have nearly 1 year olds. One said "My DD has never had sugar", and the others all chimed in to say the same.

My DS has had quite a bit of sugar - only tiny bits like a tiny morsel off a croissant, a baby biscuit or a taste of cake.

AIBU to think they might be stretching the truth? Or am I the odd one out, and a bad parent to boot?

I regularly have to chase ds around the garden entreating him to spit out and hand over pebbles. It is such a fun game it is not fun at all . He definitely sampled the beach on holiday, he had a nibble on some compost when I was making the vegetable patch and we won't even talk about the time he found where the dog had hidden his deer antler chew and had a little go at it.

A bit of sugar is nothing by comparison to what the average toddler considers ingesting, ime.

My brother and I have copious baby photos of ourselves smeared with cake and kitkats
Both parents are militant dentists
Sugar is fine

Just ignore them OP and carry on. They're just boasting, and I bet they subscribe to GOOP.

I've not eaten obvious sugar (puddings, chocolate, fizzy drinks etc) for huge numbers of years, but I'm sure I compensate with tinned tomatoes, baked beans and wine.

My DS at least doesn't go for fizzy drinks or chocolate but does drink beer and wine

I don't think any of us would choose to feed our babies on candy floss and dolly mixture, but breast milk has 7g sugar per 100g.

They would mean refined sugar. My son didn't have any until he was one. Fruits yes, but no processed food really. Natural yoghurt with fruit purée, home made food. I don't worry about what my friends feed their kids and I don't feel like anyone else should worry about what I feed mine.

I think that's lovely. I wish them luck as their babies get older and start getting invited to birthday parties.

Loads of people seem to think that organic baby biscuits or yoghurts don't count as added/processed sugar . Not sure what they actually believe is in them though? Those Ella's pouches are also super sweet.

Ella's pouches say no added sugar - just reading one now. All sugar is naturally occurring.

Am guessing your friends mean stuff like jelly and ice cream? I let my DD1 have her first taste of the good stuff on her 1st birthday. Will probably do the same for DD2.

The only drink we were allowed growing up was Ribena and as we were allowed to make it ourselves it was pretty much neat 😳 I hate to think of how much sugar we consumed daily and we were given a glass to have by the bed for in the night too
I didn't have any fillings needed till I was 19....all those years of Ribena and my teeth were fine and when I got HG whilst pregnant with dd1 my teeth just went rotten

You could point out that even breast milk contains sugar (lactose).

Awww that's nice for them. I bet they think they'll never take their children to McDonald's either. My 10mo had a bourbon biscuit today and shared my mcflurry yesterday. He's my second.

Well, this time next year they'll definitely have all had sugar! Your baby just has a head start! Free yourself from this crap OP, it's just nonsense.

I'd guess they mean processed/refined sugars, not naturally occurring sugars in fruit etc. But then, if they've had biscuits, then they've had sugar, so...

Ultimately, I wouldn't bother yourself; they've made their choices, you've made yours. The first refined sugar/processed food DD had was a bit of chocolate cake on her first birthday - I didn't feel the need to give her any processed food before that, and she'd never had it so she didn't miss it. Didn't feel the need to go telling anyone that, though. [shrug]

I've met parents who serve sugar free cake, jelly, and dried fruit at their kids birthday party. I'm a shit parent by their standards.

batteriesallgone is correct. Human breast milk has loads of sugar in it due to our massive human brains. If you didn't feed a baby vast quantities of sugar then the blood sugar levels in their brain would drop too low and they would die, so their babies have definitely had lots of sugar. One of the reasons cows milk is not suitable for humans, is due to the lower sugar content.

What a load of crap. By all means feed your baby healthily but their babies clearly have had sugar if they eat fruit, milk, baby biscuits so they are just lying to try to get one up over other mums, or don't understand anything about food

My dd had nothing with added sugar. I checked every label ie refined sugar. She'd had fruit but jo bread with sugar etc.
After her first birthday I relaxed but even now I buy yoghurts with only milk and fruit and no added sugar (or no sweeteners either) and she's still on baby biscuits for snacks to avoid added sugar. I think they probably mean refined sugar?

Um... Breastmilk is really fucking sweet.

They're first babies aren't they? I was so full of it first time round with my organic fucking quinoa and spinach delight then DC2 came along and he's stealing chocolate brownies at 6 months and being fed cheerios by his three year old sister.

No prizes for guessing which of my children has the most varied and healthy diet.

A few halloweens ago I had trick or treaters at the house and the mum stood at the end of my drive shouted if I could give her kids something sugar free if possible (they were about 5 & 6 years old). As if she expected me to have a tray of crudites and humous handy . They got Haribo and looked very happy about it too.

sunflowers what do you think makes baby biscuits and yoghurts so sweet? Processed, concentrated fruit sugars are still sugar

I don't know how many people think rusks are perfect baby food. They're the size of a dish and super sweet.

My dm is the sugar police. You hold up a slice of bread, she'll yell the sugar content. Stops the supermarket getting stale (boom boom).

Their either stupid or lying. Though that's true for the entire population.

Bread with no sugar?! How is the yeast being activated?

If you didn't feed a baby vast quantities of sugar then the blood sugar levels in their brain would drop too low and they would die
This is true - perhaps you should tell them next time you see them, that you've thought over what they said, and its fortunate their children have survived so long, but you have no alternative but to let social services know, as they probably can't go on much longer with a diet of just water, fat, salt and protein (tho maybe they don't have salt or fat either, coz those are also 'bad'...).

I had a health visitor tell me once that I should get tinned tuna in spring water as it had no salt in it - I was curious and checked - it had the same amount as all the other tinned tuna! Some people really seem to struggle with understanding labels!

she's still on baby biscuits for snacks to avoid added sugar.
Would be interested to know if there are some without any sugar - I looked up Heinz baby biscotti, just as an example, and they are 20% sugar (2nd ingredient in list)!