FIL gave my 10month old cofffee

[Louisana]

I am absolutely raging ! My FIL gave my 10month old black coffee! Luckily I saw it an quickly grabbed DD away. I was very angry at the time so just stormed off with her because had I not I would've been very rude and didn't want to be.

AIBU?? How on earth is it ok to give a baby black coffee.

I have a feeling he has been doing this for a while. As he has said it before like "ooo let's have a sip of coffee Shal we" but I always thought he was joking and wouldn't give it. But after seeing today I think he's been giving it all along!

Is this now going to affect my child? What do I do?? I'm a first time mum so very worried

Or, even worse, Camp!

Or Baldrick's.

My MIL did this when my baby was 8 months. She came in to me "oooh DD likes coffee"
Both me and DH were really annoyed and told her that wasn't acceptable. She does it all the time with surgery snacks etc. she thinks we are BU and "it's only a little bit"
She want to look after DD instead of nursery after lockdown, but the thing with food really puts me off because I know she won't listen and just feed her treats all the time.

Sorry OP not much help just hope it doesn't happen again. FIL knows it's not on I'm sure he won't do it. If he keeps giving DC coffee he can't look after DC on his own.

@HyacynthBucket

Why are so many people on here going "He'll be fine"? Are you all doctors, do you know what you are talking about? If I was OP I would definitely phone GP surgery and ask advice at least. i cannot understand how glib some posters are about things they know nothing about

I suspect a fair few of us on this thread have managed to get several children from infancy to adulthood relatively unscathed despite the things they might have ingested, including some things far more revolting than coffee

Years ago when dd1 was a baby she loved tea. My mum would give her tea in her bottle. My mum also used to put jam in her dummy

Sounds pretty normal to me. Myself, my siblings, my children, my nieces and nephews have all sucked on a bottle of tea and a finger of toast and jam. None of us died 😆

We have all been subjected to a taste of coffee — and Carling Black Label—too. We all lived to tell the tale.

Hysterical much OP. Calm down 😳

How did you go from living next door to MIL and FIL in February to living with only FIL just after lockdown in March? @Louisana
🤔

If it's any consolation, there are lots of people who have broken the lockdown. I am among them.

Rule 1 for lying.
Have a good memory.

You should probably have planned and written down the background. Winging it hasn't gone well for you.

When she's awake at 2am then make sure you call him to listen to her caffeinated babbling on the phone.

Seriously if it's a sip she'll probably be fine, but he's a very silly man.

Suspect baby must be a PFB

Omg I’d be fuminnnng

Suspect the pfb has a bit of a fibber for a maw. And it’ll be 40 years old.

Wow so much hysteria, what would some people getting this worked up over a sip of coffee do in the face of a real crisis. The mind boggles

I recall most of my anti-natal group in a very naice area fed their babies pesto salad from M&S (nuts, salt and lots of other 'naughties') at about the same age. To report they've all made it to university, some are at Oxbridge and they've all survived the 'shock horror' experience.

ante-natal even

@VettiyaIruken
Rule no 2, name change often.

AIBU?? How on earth is it ok to give a baby black coffee.

Indeed. Any old idiot knows babies take milk and two sugars

Jeez. On a website infamous for hysterical over-reactions, this takes the star prize.

I know someone who gives their 6 month old a cup of tea, I personally wouldn't

But coffee? Not a chance! I'd check in with tour health visitor but I don't think it warrants a GP appt, I wouldn't be happy about this and would bring it up with FIL as it's irresponsible and basically it's stupid.

Indeed. Any old idiot knows babies take milk and two sugars

😂

Apparently, when I had chickenpox at age 6 (I remember that I did have it very badly) I couldn't get to sleep because of the itching and my DM mixed a little wine with my Ribena. It did the trick anyway and enabled me (and my DM!! ) to sleep.

(DH and I didn't do that when sour DDs had chickenpox, so I'm not recommending it, I hasten to add.)

You posted relatively recently about feeling regularly so angry you can't control it to the point you've put your hands on your partner.

On this thread your anger towards posters has been totally disproportionate.

You need to get a handle on your temper and find some coping mechanisms as soon as possible because you are going to at some point either lose your temper with little one or teach them bad habits and poor mood regulation which would be a shame.

You sound absolutely at boiling point and although you've recently asked for help with your temper on here, you're acting as it people have torn you to shreds when they haven't.

You must be exhausted being so cross all the time. Have you tried to seek any help for it yet in real life?

You sound absolutely at boiling point and although you've recently asked for help with your temper on here, you're acting as it people have torn you to shreds when they haven't.

You must be exhausted being so cross all the time. Have you tried to seek any help for it yet in real life?

Have you considered trying decaf?

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Get a grip. Baby will be fine. When I was a baby I was given a drop of whisky in my bottle if I would not crying. I lived to tell the tale and I don't have a drink problem.

WTF??DOCTORS??? 😂😂@LunaLula83

Omg I’d be fuminnnng

Surely you mean fumming?

Totes this ^^ @iklboo