Grandparents gave 5 month old weekabix drink!!!

[Gordanismykitchendreams]

Ok so I know it was a silly error on there part, but I am fuming. Left 5 month old with them for an hour and said if baby gets hungry grab a bottle of formula from the shelf! Came back and was preparing the evening bottle and could not find the expected bottle of opened formula in the fridge.... found the actual baby bottle and noticed the formula was brown but at time assumed it was because they had left the formula in the baby bottle in a fridge for longer than an hour.. (not slept in 5 months before you judge) I told them any formula in baby bottle needs throwing out immediately

Just come down from settling baby, asked again where the opened bottle of formula was and that’s when I spotted the weetabix drink in the fridge opened... looked at it and saw it was the same brown colour as what had been in the bottle!!!

Just went absolutely mental!! Apparently she did not take much if any.

They are not English but can read English so would have assumed they would have picked up one of the clearly marked 20 bottles of formula up and not the one bottle of bloody weetabix drink!

Have also scolded said husband for leaving this bloody drink on the side when he doesn’t even like it!!

Feel a little bad now as they are so lovely and I know it was a silly accident.. but what the hell!

There is also a funny story about them making chicken with kipper sauce...

Bet the next nappy will be spectacular

Mine would have probably been eating weetabix at that age - back in the day when they were weaned at 4 months (or 15 weeks in Ds case). I'm sure grandparents meant no harm.

You'll be laughing about this in years to come.

Total overreaction, particularly for “scolding your husband “ . Wtaf

Welllll...the nurses on the maternity ward fed my brother Weetabix at less than 2 weeks old in the '60s. He's a bit odd but, survived for more than 5 decades thus far.

Your 5-month-old will be fine - in fact, back in '98, we were weaning our babies at 16 weeks because we were told to by health professionals.

They aren't anymore because the evidence showed it's harmful

Makes one wonder how generations of us have survived

YABVU - ridiculously disproportionate reaction.

You definitely need to apologise!

They aren't anymore because the evidence showed it's harmful

Not actually true. Fully weaning at 4 months is harmful, which is why the advice is to leave it till 6 months. But small bits of food from 4 months is fine.

Yes yes I know over reaction.. but even the best of us would struggle with a baby that wakes every hour on a good night!

The weetabix drink is so full of crap compared to normal weetabix as I stuff my face with my 6th chocolate rice Krispy cake of the day..

To be fair i suspect my breast milk is more chocolate than milk with the amount I eat.

I thought you were going to say brandy or whisky or something.

The point of mentioned the earlier but outdated weaning date was to reassure the post writer that the baby will probably be fine, not to suggest she goes against current weaning advice 🙄... Generations of previous babies were weaned much earlier with no ill effects

And I know weetabix drinks are full of crap, but he had a small bit. It will have no impact

I was less worried about the food and more worried about the crap that goes into making these drinks. I wanted to at least try to make it to 1 year old before her diet goes to shit. (As per my 5 year old!)

You need to apologise to your in laws and DH (but mainly to your in laws)

Don’t worry everyone got an apology, we are all friends again!

Indeed Kazzz my uncle who was a Gp at the time advised my mum to wean me early as I drank milk very slowely she was feeding me bowls of porridge at four months now clearly the advice is now different and we go by the current advice but my generation survived .

Ah good!

Easy mistake for them to make. I’m not ancient but have no idea who makes formula milks anymore, not totally outlandish to think a well known food company would.

You actually ate the chicken with kipper sauce?!

Was it the vanilla or the chocolate one?
People saying their babies had weetabix from x weeks are missing thst these are full of sugar
That said, doesn't sound like he had much

I actually had started her on baby rice today,

So you gave her food rather than milk today but went mental at your Pil for accidentally doing the same, and at your DH for daring to buy a weetabix drink?!?

Seriously OP you sound like a complete hypocrite, and hard work.

Or a GF

@chitofftheshovel
Yes we did! Did not want to upset them ha ha. They always make such an effort!!

@StealthPolarBear
I think the vanilla one. It’s in the bin now!

I expect so. I think the chocolate one has choc chips in it!

I came back after my (one day) honeymoon to seeing our daughter eating boiled egg and "soldiers" having already eaten weetabix - prior she had only had baby rice and strained veggies! Thankfully she had no allergies, all mum would say was it's what she fed me.

Go easy on them, it was a mistake and plenty of kids ate weetabix as a weaning food