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!!

Nomorechickens

Ingredients on page 5

my pure little milky baby is now ruined

WTF?!

The baby licked a bit of custard off of a finger?
111?
Ruined?
Get. A. Grip.

@hirstprint no I have a husband that has recently been diagnosed with leukaemia and a child that has taken the diagnosis very badly, but if it makes you feel better...

My mother's other standby, apart from brandy, was Dr Collis Browne's. I've just looked it up out of curiosity. The ingredients are:

Morphine hydrochloride
Peppermint oil
Ethanol (alcohol)
Benzoic acid
Capsicum tincture
Caramel
Chloroform
Citric acid
Hypromellose
Sorbitol solution
Treacle (containing sucrose and fructose)
Purified water

stoppinby
“gut flora and fauna” made me laugh so much! It’s just gut flora, fauna is animal life! I’m imagining OP’s baby with teeny animals in their gut which are getting upset by the change in their environment

OP is going to remember her pure little milky baby when he's necking kebabs and lager in a few years' time, and cringe.

A bit of custard at 5 weeks..?
Sorry but that age I was out on the lash getting p*ssed off vodka and Malibu and having a happy meal for afters. I survived! God all this advice given by doctors these days is ridiculous trust your own motherly instinct ffs

@hirstprint I was just answering your question - I have plenty of real life support thanks.

hirstprint: ODFOD. You were gratuitously nasty, you don't get to criticise another poster for telling the truth.

@pippi, haha, yep you are totally right there, unfortunately for me I missed that I wrote flora ad fauna rather than just flora until you pointed it out and now I can't edit the post.

Don't mind me, i am just over here making myself look like an idiot and now I have the same image as you in my head LMBO.

SaturdayNext I think you have your posters muddled up. Frequentlywhatsit was having a go at me for putting the ingredients on the thread.

No, I haven't, PIFilm. I was referring to hirstprint's post at 23.35.

I think you are overreacting. if he was 15 weeks perhaps she would be a little (although I would still be annoyed and upset) but he is 5 weeks! He is a tiny newborn. I would be fuming op.

I think you need to have a chat about WHY he can't do things like that for the safety of your baby otherwise you won't feel like leaving them alone. He clearly has a relaxed attitude to the guidelines so things like measuring out the correct dose of calpol and sterilising bottles are things I would be worried about too.

(I am known for being over cautious though)

Yes, you overreacted, OP, as you now know. Glad some comments on this thread have given you a bit of a giggle.

Is baby OK OP? Any repercussions? Did your husband understand that he shouldn’t have done it?

That's absolutely ridiculous! 5 months old, no food at all.
Why do people do this sad

what a weird thing to post. The OP's baby is 5 WEEKS but the advice now is to withhold solids until 6 months so thats why people do it. I managed it with all three of mine and they are perfectly happy children so you can save your pity for someone more deserving

Oh Gawd's sake, some of the reactions on here!!!
Two children here, one mid teens, one tweens
True, I'd have gasped and promptly fainted before 4 months for both, but just no, nothing wrong and worth getting involved for.
A one off suck of a custardy finger - fine.

GlitterStick You’d have gasped and fainted at 5 weeks then? But not at 5 months? Is that what you’re saying?

@polkadotin
My poor little milky baby is now ruined

WTF
Yes. Was thinking that too!
That soon wears off lol, after a couple of kids you love both the same but realise little things like one suck of custardy finger isn't instant death.

Jesus wept talk about a maaaajor overreaction. 😹

Hopefully, OP will look back in years to come and realise this really was a trifling matter...

A bit of custard will not do any harm. That said, it was a good idea to send out a clear message that he should not be giving anything other than BM/formula unless you have both agreed as a couple and unless there is a reason for it (like giving a vitamin supplement).

The custard itself is not really anything to worry about, but you don't want to encourage the idea that it is OK to give random tastes of this and that for fun. It could be something dangerous next time, like honey or a high-salt food.