Newborn and custard

[MrsXx4]

Mainly posting here for traffic because I really don’t think I am being at all unreasonable!! I am fuming! I left my 5 week old baby in my husbands ‘capable’ hands for 2 minutes while I went to hang some washing up and when I came downstairs husband was feeding him custard (an M&S microwave custard - not baby food) from his finger! Letting baby suck it from his finger!

I am so angry but do I also need to worry about baby? Husband has got angry saying I have over reacted in being so mad! Baby was sleeping on me a second ago as I took him off of husband but now he has taken him off me and baby is screaming!!

What the fuck? You just made that all up

No, I postulated the most likely version of events given that it would be highly unlikely the DH has been secretly and deliberately feeding the baby custard for the last five weeks.

doIreallyneedto The gastro complaints of the early weaned generations are the reason the changed the guidelines.

EwItsAHooman

You weren’t there, you made it up.

Why do people come on MN and lie like that as if they know it all?

I'd be really angry. I don't care what they did 30 years ago, I don't care what happened 30 minutes ago. Babies don't need custard it's shit for them- sugar they don't need, cornflour that's too thick for their guts and potential of allergic reaction to egg. It's a bullshit thing to do.

Why do people come on MN and lie like that as if they know it all?

I didn't like, I said what likely happened is....

Why do some people come on MN and get massively worked up over a non-issue?

Phone 111 😂😂

He is an idiot - I would also make it clear that he will be dealing with the diarrhea nappies all night if the baby cannot digest cow's milk, egg and sugar

😂😂😂 This makes me really want custard. Seriously though baby will be fine OP, try not to worry.

And as for phoning 111 or reporting her DH to the health visitor 😂😂😂 MNetters for the laugh.

*cheers MNetters

Ah OP, calm down! It was just a lick of custard. Your baby will be absolutely fine.

I would also make it clear that he will be dealing with the diarrhea nappies all night if the baby cannot digest cow's milk, egg and sugar

Over a tiny little lick of custard?

He was daft.Dont be cross with him for wanting to cuddle the baby though.

If it had been my pfb, the cows milk and egg content would have set off his first allergic reaction. It was bad enough having a 6m old's face swelling up and losing his facial features and being unable to open his eyes when I inadvertantly first triggered it with baby porridge. The guilt of doing it so early on an unnecessary food not suitable for babies so young would have been much harder.

I wouldn't have been impressed with the second baby either as I was understandably a bit cagey after my first experience of weaning.

FFS - your baby will be perfectly all right. It was just a tiny bit!!! The worst thing that can happen is a poonami.

“my pure little milky baby is now ruined”
That is the creepiest thing I’ve read on here in a while and way more worrying than the custard. What the actual fuck.

Oh dear, OP. It's not good. But reminds me of DC2 being 'fed' soil by DC1 when she was a week old and lying in her basket in the garden. She was fine. I have no idea who fed what to DC3. But if someone had fed DC1 anything untoward when he was little, I'd have murdered them. I wouldn't worry too much. It's just a bit silly on your DH's part.

“my pure little milky baby is now ruined”
That is the creepiest thing I’ve read on here in a while and way more worrying than the custard. What the actual fuck.

To be fair to the OP, the baby is five weeks old. Who hasn't said or thought odd things like that in the early weeks?

My DTs had sugar water off nurses glove in hospital at few days old. So don't panic about little bit of custard.

I would be annoyed with DH! Not worth falling out over just make sure he knows not a good idea.

@Another Pidgey yeh that was my first thought. My kid is really allergic to egg and that first ride to hospital with a rapidly swelling baby isn't something I'll ever forget 😥

"“my pure little milky baby is now ruined”
That is the creepiest thing I’ve read on here in a while and way more worrying than the custard. What the actual fuck."

Beat me to it!

My DTs had sugar water off nurses glove in hospital at few days old.

I'd forgotten about the sugar water off a gloved finger! DD had this when she was in SCBU and when she came back to the postnatal ward, every time they had to do anything uncomfortable (e.g., take blood) they stuck a sugary finger in her mouth. It stops them crying and acts as a painkiller. She used to make the loudest smacking noises when she sucked and then would cry when it was all gone. She got to the point where everytime she saw a hand wearing a purple rubber glove she would start smacking her lips together.

Thanks for the memory, doveblue

He's been an idiot. It would worry me what other poor decisions he might make. I also don't like this thing about taking the baby off you because "you're making him feel bad". You're doing nothing of the sort. He needs to own his own feelings and not blame you for them!

Is he prone to doing things without thinking and without discussing them with you?

@anniehm Are you insane? McDonald's fries? At 12 weeks a baby's intestines are not developed enough for anything, let alone salt, grease and fried potato

Da had sugar water to make him open his mouth to get his tongue tie cut he was fine

Snuffalo Not as creepy as someone “postulating” what it’s like to be in that house at that time and deciding what the man was thinking and doing and how he was interacting with the baby and writing a paragraph about it as if it were fact.

That’s really weird