Aibu or is this really, really disgusting?

[Mrsknackered]

Chewing up food and then transferring it into your baby's mouth.
Or sipping a drink and then putting that in baby's mouth.

It's not just the germs that gross me out but the actual action of it.

Aibu?

Unless you are a wolf or similar that's gross.

That's gross but nowhere near as bad as sucking the snot out of a baby's nose.

I can hardly type that without dry heaving

In the developed world it's not common.

In places where sippy cups and blenders aren't commonly available it's fairly normal.

It's what birds do. Do they keep birds and just copied?

But yes, it's grim.

Spitting a drink into your child's mouth? That's just weird. If the food requires chewing before the child can eat it then they probably shouldn't be eating it in the first place?

I used to occasionally bite off a chunk of apple and give it to DS to eat, but not actually chew it.

DP transferred half a sucked advent chocolate into my mouth the other day when I kissed him, that was gross! But apparently his dad used to do what you describe. Grim.

And yet, there are other interesting things many women are quite happy to have in their mouths.

DP transferred half a sucked advent chocolate into my mouth the other day when I kissed him

I would turn shit side out if anyone did anything like that to me, that’s revolting.

That's just vile. Baby's have hard gums. There's just no need.

It's pretty disgusting to our modern sensibilities but it was pretty common in 'olden days' when people decided that something was too tough for a baby to chew.

Unless you’re an owl or a blue tit there really is no need.

I'm cool with it

Didn’t Alicia Silverstone get papped doing this with her toddler?

Who've you seen doing this op?!

worra

If it meant my baby being able to breathe then I'd quite happily suck gunk out their nose.

In some societies it has been done for those unable to chew - babies, the ill, older people. Why not?

It was a revelation to me when HV explained that because baby’s gums are so hard, we don’t really need to purée food when weaning, it’s just not a bad idea at first so that they’re not trying to get used to too many things st once. (Chewing and new tastes.)
So after a couple of weeks of puréed food, we started on the carrot sticks, etc. They were absolutely fine, at six months, chomping away on celery, carrot, bread, etc.

That's how my grandmother was weaned and fed in rural wales in the early 20th century.

It's less revolting than eating party food off children's tables when they've been running round soft play and have all put their hands in it. But this seems normal.

I have never chewed food up for my children, but I have helped them eat apples like this when we're on the move - taking bites out of the apple and handing them to whichever child lacks teeth at that time.

There was some other food I would bite into smaller pieces for them too, but I can't remember now what it was. It's definitely easier to share - say - a filled baguette with a very young child by biting pieces off rather than tearing, especially if you're in the car or somewhere where you want to minimise mess but have a hungry toddler.

(As well as babyhood, both of my dc's rather unhelpfully lost both top incisors at the same time and couldn't bite into apples.)

Totally get the apple chunks, I do the same.

If I say who it is that does this, I fear I will out myself, SURELY there aren't huge amount amounts of people who do this!

It's not so much the chewing that's disgusting, it's the fact that the chewer's saliva and possibly all sorts of other gunk (if the Chewer has poor oral hygiene) will be mixed up in the masticated food that's being transferred into the poor baby's mouth.

omg I feel like throwing up just thinking about it.

I need to stop thinking about throwing up, it's reminded me of what dog's do with their sick.

*Or sipping a drink and then putting that in baby's mouth.

• do you mean spitting it into their mouth... grim! I think most babies could manage drinking straight out of the cup easier than that surely.

I have done the biting chunks off to give to DD though, but I wouldn't chew it!

MrsKnackered, is it a Celeb?
Or someone in your family?

I would turn shit side out