For my 7 month old to watch TV or not?

[BeautyAndTheBump1]

So I put baby tv on for DS for the last few months - he loved it, i could get stuff done, great! Then he started whinging for it when it wasnt on and all he wanted to do was watch TV.
So I thought hold up, did some googling, read it was terrible, turned the TV off and made him go cold turkey. Yep. Cold turkey at (then) 6 months old.

Started working again this week, put the tv on for 10 mins whilst on a call, as soon as i turned it off he started whinging alllllll day again for it. So its like its either all or nothing?!

Just came up in a conversation with a friend, they told me I was being ridiculous and I was lucky that my baby was entertained enough to lay and watch TV. They would definitely not be turning it off if it kept their baby quiet, and as soon as he can crawl he will be no longer interested in the TV anyway.

AIBU keeping the TV off? Am i just being an over worrying FTM? Or am I actually speaking some sense? When he has the tv on he just lays there and does nothing, so im worried he would also fall behind on milestones.

Be kind

My first DC hardly watched tv in 1st year. Towards the end of pregnancy with DC2, i found it pretty tough (got pregnant when dc was 6ms old). DC1 knew alphabet, could easily recognise and say all letters and numbers before she was 18ms. This was basically because I was trying to juggle a newborn and toddler after a c-section, trying to breastfeed a baby with tongue-tie, v refluxy baby who also needed formula top ups, DC1 who gave up daytime naps at 7.5ms etc etc. I used to read to them a lot etc, but I'm totally convinced DC1's amazing speech, v early letter recognition and counting etc was mainly due to lots and lots of little babybum!!

You don’t have to read much to find compelling evidence that tv is bad for one so young. Sorry. Its it’s hard