Alcohol- Toddler

[Nicegirl123]

At a news years party for kids and some adult just gave my son a sip of some ring alcoholic cider! I know I’m a rubbish mum, I should’ve been watching more but I nipped to the loo.

I’m panicking about my 20month old ds! I’m so worried about brain damage or liver damage or death
(I have severe anxiety and this is the first party I’ve been too!)
Please help!

Wow. Your best friend is blaming you and labelling it a joke? You need new friends OP. I hope he's ok. And you too.

Glad you have spoken to someone OP. Hopefully now your anxiety will start to reduce.
You sound like a great mum. Hope you hear back from your own mum or get some sleep soon

Time to ditch the 'friend'

Glad your little boy is ok. I'd hit the roof if anyone gave my 2 year old booze, and I'd catastrophise too.
Your best friend is acting like an arsehole. I'm going to be charitable and say that it's because she's tipsy and in the morning she will be mortified and be profusely apologetic.
Nonetheless i think you might need some new friends.

Your best friend is an arsehole. Think of this as the best day of your life, the day you realised you deserve better than her.

You sound like a really lovely mummy by the way happy new year love, all will be fine

Text her back 'It's not funny or a joke to give babies alcohol but you obviously don't see it that way as your husband told me that he gives it to yours regularly.'

Then when the silly bitch texts back to say it's fine I'd report her to SS with the text as evidence.

Your DS will be fine and so will you once you block and blank these dicks. Make it a resolution for 2018.

Racing your anxiety may mean your reaction is stronger than others might be but I hope you know how fucking awful your 'friend' is being. She is compounding her husband's shitty behaviour. Her text is cruel. She is not a friend and perhaps the silver lining is that you know this now.

You don't give children alcohol, especially random sips to other people's fucking children. God, I'm angry for you.

Your son will be totally fine, and the fear and worry you feel is your anxiety speaking - no matter what it tells you, your son honestly isn't in danger. Snuggle up with your baby and try and get some sleep.

I know how anxiety can make you feel so low and blame yourself. I left mine for five minutes to put the rubbish sacks out the house and in that time he smacked his head hard enough to need to go to A&E . I felt like such a terrible mum for ages.

Are you having CBT for your anxiety? If you are it's worth digging out your notes or handouts and using the coping techniques.

Get some sleep Op everything is fine now. No point in dwelling on it. Your friend sounds drunk so best not talking to her at the moment

Your friend is an arsehole. Not a great way to find out but at least you know now and can ditch her guilt free.

In the meantime deep breaths, look at your lovely toddler sleeping soundly safe in his mummy’s bed and try and relax.

You are not overreacting about your friend. If my dh did that to a friends child (he wouldn't, but if he did) I'd be horrified and apologetic.

Glad toddler is OK. You sound like a lovely mum

I used to regularly "minesweep" at family parties as a child and would be found asleep under the dining table! No harm came to me. Please try not to worry.

The percentage is 7.3 The original Woodwards gripewater contained 3.6% alcohol. Recommended dosage was from one to several teaspoons a day, so the cider was equivalent to dosing on old-style gripewater. Not saying this is a good thing! - they reduced the alcohol content of gripewater for a reason.

Gin is 37%-50% alcohol. So a sip of gin would be equivalent to 5-9 sips of cider.

You, and many other posters on here, seriously need to unclench.

My ‘best friend’ has since texted me ‘telling me to lighten up and there is no wonder I have no other friends when I can’t take a joke’.

Not a good friend at all. Get rid ASAP.

There won't be any peer reviewed studies on the effects of alcohol on toddlers Glittery because it would be deeply unethical to conduct such studies.

Anecdotally though, as a toddler, I was allowed a single sip of whatever my parents were drinking and I remained entirely healthy and very much alive.

I remember reading in the paper about a toddler dying after clearing the dregs of a number of alcoholic drinks left out the next morning from a party. It was quite shocking - that's probably why I remember it - and a long long time ago - about 20 years ago I think. Not sure if it is the same case pp mentioned.

I imagine your friend and her patner understand that you suffer from anxiety, OP?

If so, they were being thoughtless, irresponsible dicks to feed a little kid alcohol because a) anyone wkth a shred of sense knows doing that to a wee kid is stupid and irresponsible and b) most people who have a friend someone with anxiety is kind enough not to pull shit like this on them.

Their reaction to your concern aas equally awful. They sound really immature and unpleasant. You on the other hand, have responded perefectly sensibly. Good on you. I would have completely lost my shit.

Lowest Paediatric fatal dose is about 3gms per kg of body weight. It's actually quite a bit of 40% alcohol.
Green shoots your talking bollox.

I drank a glass of champagne when I was 2. Lived to tell the tale (although I’m still a fan of champagne).

Anyone ever seen pint baby on YouTube?

String me up, my toddler had a tiny bit of champagne diluted into his water tonight after our celebratory feast, he's probably going to have the DT's tomorrow if he doesn't slip into a coma.

Morning OP
How are you and your little one today?
Happy new year and lots of love and good vibes.
Sorry your friends been such a knob