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to think that giving a 5.5 month old McDonalds is verging on abuse?

403 replies

Partyfops · 13/10/2018 12:14

So a friend of mine has just posted on FB about their not yet 6 month old baby eating her first McDonalds!! FFS!!!!

This is utterly vile right???

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EwItsAHooman · 13/10/2018 15:28

I wouldn't feed that shit to my dog, let alone my DC

Why is it shit? It's chicken, batter, and potatoes. Processed, for sure, and not a meal for every day but it's hardly shit.

Working in a supermarket I routinely saw mothers buy a can of full sugar coke, crack it open just past the till, and pour it into a bottle for their baby in a pram to suck on.

A friend had a baby who had a medical condition that caused seizures if her blood sugar got too low. If she was unwell, teething, or being a fussy madam (as toddlers sometimes are) then she would go off her food and would inevitably start seizing once she got a certain threshold. The easiest way for my friend to boost her blood sugar was a sugary drink.

Gizzygizmo · 13/10/2018 15:33

Abuse ?
I like the occasional McDonald's and my 10 month old has a few chips and bit of the bread, he's fully breastfed too so hardly eats much anyway but I wouldn't deny him a few chips

TomHardysNextWife · 13/10/2018 15:56

The fact that so many people are normalising this is terrifying Shock

MicroManaged · 13/10/2018 16:00

Maybe it was a joke? At that age they’d hardly have had much of a meal out of it.

Dc3 technically had his first KFC at about 8 months 🤷🏻‍♀️

Caprisunorange · 13/10/2018 16:01

“Today 15:56 TomHardysNextWife

The fact that so many people are normalising this is terrifying shock”

Could you be anymore of a drama llama?

ADastardlyThing · 13/10/2018 16:04

Terrifying?

Really?

reallyreallynow · 13/10/2018 16:08

@MicroManaged at eight months for KFC I'm hoping that was a full on family bucket and he didn't wimp out with a wrap or something! 😳

reallyreallynow · 13/10/2018 16:09

@TomHardysNextWife terrifying really honestly terrifying! Wow, what do you do when something scary does happen! Will you faint to the floor?

roundaboutthetown · 13/10/2018 16:13

@MamaLovesMango - it's an NHS website that states that there is salt in breastmilk. See here: www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/childrens-health/how-much-salt-do-babies-and-children-need/. No doubt it is conflating sodium and salt, but it still says what it says, namely: "Babies who are breastfed get the right amount of salt through breast milk. Infant formula contains a similar amount of salt to breast milk." ie that babies under 1 year old are already getting their 1g a day max of salt from breastmilk or formula milk.

Caprisunorange · 13/10/2018 16:20

Well if they get their limit of salt from breast or formula milk there is no point feeding them any food at all is there Hmm I don’t think that’s quite right

StartingAgain1 · 13/10/2018 16:22

The little boy that's been in the news recently who was beaten to death and had cocaine in his system is abuse, a chicken nugget is not. Theres no way the kid ate a whole happy meal at 5.5months. I can't believe someone on here said a bit of meth wouldn't kill a baby errr yes it would!

Plawmawss · 13/10/2018 16:24

Honest to goodness. Utter daftness ... mine had mc Donald’s as small children. I mean for goodness sake, this is almost a joke. Child abuse?! What the absolute feck.
Soooo judgemental. We’ve no clue what that mother is dealing with/ how she eats every other day. To say it’s child abuse is mind boggling.
Most people feed their newborns mostly processed formula milk. Is that child abuse? No

JacquesHammer · 13/10/2018 16:28

The fact that so many people are normalising this is terrifying

Quick someone, pass the hyperbole prize.

Sadly not in the running for comprehension prize today.

CaMePlaitPas · 13/10/2018 16:30

God I love chicken nuggets. Want a Maccy Ds now.

roundaboutthetown · 13/10/2018 16:30

Caprisunorange - to the extent that I very clearly remember being told by midwives and health visitors that on no accounts should I give my baby any food with salt added until he was over a year old, I think it's right. From a scientific viewpoint, establishing whether it is aded salt or sodium content of food, I have no idea, as I just followed the advice about not buying processed food for my baby unless it was baby food, and not adding any salt to home prepared food. In any event, it's the NHS saying it, not me, so someone would need to take it up with the NHS!!

Bobaboutwhat · 13/10/2018 16:30

OP do you mean abuse as in their digestive system isn’t mature enough for solids, i.e its abuse to their insides? I’m guessing that’s what you mean and I agree to be honest!

Caprisunorange · 13/10/2018 16:31

Salt is in all food though. It’s nothing to do with added if they can’t have a mg more

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 13/10/2018 16:33

It's pretty shit tbf but so many posters saying it's nothing?

If someone had posted "My MIL fed my 6 month old baby maccies AIBU to be annoyed?" the response would not have been the same as on this thread!

CountessVonBoobs · 13/10/2018 16:33

Given how little of it a 6mo is likely to swallow, I think the Happy Meal is likely to have had less of an impact on them, nutritionally and proportionately, than on a 3 or 4yo who ate the whole thing.

I don't have a dog in this fight, incidentally. I've never taken either of mine to a McDonalds and wouldn't feed my baby a nugget, although I'm not going to pretend like my 4yo hasn't had fast food before.

CountessVonBoobs · 13/10/2018 16:36

roundabouttown, did your baby ever eat bread? Cheese? Natural yoghurt? Weetabix? All of these foods contain sodium.

EwItsAHooman · 13/10/2018 16:37

do you mean abuse as in their digestive system isn’t mature enough for solids, i.e its abuse to their insides? I’m guessing that’s what you mean and I agree to be honest!

The child is 5.5 months old, it's close enough to being six months old. There is no magic gut switch that activates on the stroke of midnight when they turn six months old that makes them instantly ready for solids, +/- two weeks is nothing my oldest started weaning at 14wks

VerbeenaBeeks · 13/10/2018 16:37

The fact that so many people are normalising this is terrifying shock”

It's a fucking McDonald''s chicken nugget! Grin
Have I misread and McDonalds is now code for a crack pipe or something?!

Jeez Louise.

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 13/10/2018 16:38

Yeah and the baby is 6 months old Verbeena Confused

EwItsAHooman · 13/10/2018 16:41

If someone had posted "My MIL fed my 6 month old baby maccies AIBU to be annoyed?" the response would not have been the same as on this thread!

Because in the example you've given it would presumably be against the parents wishes/without their say-so, or else why would someone be posting an AIBU about it? When it's the parent doing the feeding.... Meh. It's their prerogrative to feed their child what they want.

VerbeenaBeeks · 13/10/2018 16:42

If someone had posted "My MIL fed my 6 month old baby maccies AIBU to be annoyed?" the response would not have been the same as on this thread!

Yeah, that's not a grandparent's call to make though. I'd have been pretty pissed off if my DM or MIL had given mine a Happy Meal at that age.
As I didn't feed them fast food at that age.
I can't hand wring over someone else with their child choosing to give them a couple of fries to suck or a chicken nugget to gum as what was most probably a one off.
I bet if they'd have left the poor sod out and not given it a chip or a nugget there'd be a thread on here saying AIBU that I saw a kid out in a restaurant being deprived food as the parents sat and ate in front of it?! Grin
Judged whatever you do. Can't be doing with it. How about we all each do us. Each to their own.

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