Feeding a baby chocolate

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When did you feed your baby chocolate? Did you hold off as long as possible?

Held off till 1st birthday. I wasn't fussed for giving him chocolate but his grandparents were desperate. At a year he definitely knew about sweet treats and loved cake.

A bit at 8 months as people gave her some at her first Easter, but only really enough to take the photos to say thank you.

My 8 month old has had a few little tastes

I held off as long as possible, I think she was about 2? I wasn’t particularly precious about it but it was so easy to avoid that it just didn’t really happen until then. For her, fruit was the sweetest best thing ever, so I didn’t feel like I was depriving her of lovely food

Didn’t actually give my DD any til she was 2 (although she may have had some with grandparents). She loves it but is just as delighted with a bowl full of berries so why give her the unhealthy option?! At 3 she now has it as a rare treat.

Around a year. She's two now and has the odd bit of cake/chocolate if we're having it in front of her but that's not very often and never an adult portion!

Hold off as long as possible. It’s nutritionally void and isn't something thar they “need” to like. Giving chocolate to babies is far more about the parents than the baby.

I was so uptight with my first I dont think he had chocolate until he was two.. and only water not juice etc
I look back and laugh now because I gave chocolate to my daughter when she was like 8 months...
And there's no difference really they both eat well and will eat veg, they are both healthy weight etc...they both love chocolate.

Why would you feed your baby chocolate?! They don't need anything to help rot their teeth with no nutritional value

With my first i think it was after 1st birthday. No idea for my second, he was probably snaffling it way before that thi 🤣

Oldest was maybe 5, middle was 5 and youngest was older 6ish.

We held off introducing heavily processed foods to make sure they had a reasonable understanding of how different foods impact our body’s, both positively and negatively. My younger two are now 8 and 11 and neither have had fizzy drinks either.

It’s a very personal choice and I’m very aware that we’re in the minuscule minority but I thought I’d let you know that you can hold off for extended periods if that’s what you choose.

Tough lark this parenting.

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Hold off as long as possible. It’s nutritionally void and isn't something thar they “need” to like. Giving chocolate to babies is far more about the parents than the baby.

DD had 85% chocolate whilst weaning. Probably not much more than 6 months old. Lots of health benefits in dark chocolate (she’s still not a massive fan of milk choc a decade later).

My dc had those jars of chocolate pudding when weaning and then those chocolate and vanilla petit filous pots. They had bites of chocolate, buns and stuff before 1 as well.

They're 8 and 9 now and seem to have a healthy attitude to food and are able to save their chocolates and sweets so they last days and weeks instead of eating them all in one go.

DS was around 2 and had some on his friends birthday cake. He is nearly 4 now.

I am fairly relaxed as long as his diet is balanced and he is active but I knew that as soon as I gave in, my parents would be trying to give it at every opportunity (pushy feeders who destroyed my own relationship with food).

Held off until 23 months, Christmas came and someone gave him an advent calendar - now chocolate is is favourite thing in the world 😅😂

I went back to work, reluctantly, when dc1 was 3 months old and my parents looked after him. I was mortified and cried my eyes out when I found out that after about 2 days of having him they fed him a whole Mars bar. Pictures of him covered in chocolate plastered over Facebook

A bit of chocolate never killed anyone - some right grumps on here!

If it was up to me I would have happily held off till 3+ but my DH is a sucker for "treating" Dc and would let DD1 have ice cream and chocolate from around 1yr old. DD2? No idea... less than a year though!

I really don't like giving them loads of chocolate crap but it does make for good bribery.

Can't stand to see those cake smash photo shoots though 🤮

Eldest I waited til she was about 18 months.
Fourth dc had a chocolate button put in his mouth at 5 months by his brother.

My 4 year old probably not until 3; and now maybe once a week max

Youngest Is 2, he had choc rice crispy cake once at nursery

@NotExactlyMrsCurrentAffairs omg I'd be livid! Sorry your parents did that

Probably around 11 months; I think we were in France and he had some of my pain au chocolat one morning. There's nothing wrong with chocolate at all. If I eat it (and I do) then I'm happy for DS to eat it. Making it something that's restricted or forbidden or 'bad' is totally counter productive. It's just food.

I have ds some buttons at Christmas a few days before his 1st birthday.

Theres no rules on it so whenever you want

Around 18 months. DS is now a bit of a chocolate fiend but chocolate buttons and the odd biscuit, piece of cake or ice cream are really the only treats he gets (and not very often). No crisps, sweets, fizzy drinks or juice here.

I think regularly drinking juice is worse than the odd bit of chocolate but that's only my opinion.

I wasn't fussed for giving him chocolate but his grandparents were desperate

This.

I didn’t see the point. We rarely had chocolate in so I’d have had to buy it specially.

But OMG the nagging of the GP. “Just a little taste”. One set seemed to think it was the mess I was worried about and insisted they’d get white chocolate, the other set seemed to think it was “healthy” i was obsessed with and insisted it was all organic so it would be fine.

I did give in to my mum in the end and she did regret it for a while as a chocolate obsessed monster was unleashed...