FIL gave my 10month old cofffee

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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

Please don't waste your gp's time with this.

Hmm OP’s gone very quiet...

@OnceUponAMidnightBeery

Probably having a come down from all that coffee.

Seems the op has disappeared now that it has been shown that she is being a little economical with the truth. Or should that be she been telling BIG FAT LIES!

I take back my apology OP misleading

Relax about the coffee, she ll be grand. Brandy rubbed ,on a babys gums was a well known cure for teething...long long ago..

I’d be really concerned too, OP.

My 46 years old husband has been drinking 8-10 double espressos every day for the last 45 years and I do worry about him.

It all started innocently enough, that fateful Christmas in 1976 when someone left the lid off the Cadbury’s roses. Sure, MIL claims that the coffee cremes were always the last to go, but I know what she was at.

It’s just not OP though, read the first few replies on this thread. The shock, the horror at this ghastly act of child cruelty expressed by this posters is really quite something. The world trying has gone mad, you wonder how some people get by in the day if this is shocking, horrendous and ghastly to them.

Still here.

@bunbunbun

@justadvice wait, I missed something. Or are you the op?

Apparently OP was lying. My kids have always liked a sip of black coffee or black tea, and often ask for their water at a mealtime to have just a bit of an adult's tea or coffee in it.

Neither gets many sweets, and both have a good palate with a lot of variety for bitter veg they'll eat.

If it's stunted their growth, thank god, they're practically off the charts for height as it is, and it's going to be hard to manage air travel in economy by the time they reach their teens.

Your missed a critical keyword, OP - ‘livid’. Isn’t that what you really are?

@sst1234 v true - 'call your GP', 'coffee stunts growth' etc etc. FFS 🤣

I reached my full potential of 5ft 2 before I tried coffee.
Are you telling me that I could have grown taller at the age of 21 (almost 10 years ago ) had I not drank coffee?

I love this thread. Nice relief after other threads where posters nearly faint if you mention baby rice or farleys risks....but coffee, that's fine ha ha.

It’s my child so it's my rules of what I'd like my child to have or not have. He should respect that

Have you got ‘no sliced lemons’ on your list of rules OP? If not you’d best get it on there quick!

I guess, hyacinth, people are using their common sense coupled with experience to come to the conclusion that the chances of a swig of coffee causing discernible harm are vanishingly small?

You really don't need a medical degree for that.

I love this thread. Nice relief after other threads where posters nearly faint if you mention baby rice or farleys risks....but coffee, that's fine ha ha.

To be fair, farleys risks are a fecking hazard (great autocorrect )

Not as much as baby ricin....

I never had any risks with farleys rusks because they were in dd's bottle 🤣🤣

Mmmm Farleys Rusks, still my go to comfort food.

Brilliant thread OP. Cheered me up no end.
When I was about 18 I worked as an au pair in France. I had read that French children were given watered down wine. I duly did this and you've never seen a mother move so fast to whisk something out of their child's hand. I got the disapproving stare of death that only a soigne French woman can give.