Feeding a baby chocolate

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

I don’t remember. I tried to hold off for ages, but MIL was adamant and provided childcare. She would feed him treats, chocolates and biscuits when I was at work and wouldn’t tell me unless I saw wrapper lying around.

The first time he had ice cream was around 8 months. We were out for a meal with PILs at the time and I had given him some cooked veggies that he was sucking on. When dessert came, MIL leaned over the table and stuck a spoon of ice cream in DS’s mouth without any warning.

I don't remember giving my son any chocolate until he was two, but expect my late Mum and late Mil would have given him some chocolate buttons and the like.. He used to like more savoury things. He used to like boneless kippers and sardines at aged 2, maybe because I ate a lot of fish.!

PFB was probably close to 1. Then there were a run of 1st birthday parties of antenatal group friends where there was cake & treats etc.

2nd child probably had it at about 7m melted into semolina as they just got given same food as older sibling etc.

Interestingly I was much stricter with first child than second, and 1st child is way worse for being addicted to treats. I think a huge element of it is personality.

To clarify with second DC I made it less of a restricted treat, & that DC is very balanced about food. Likes random things like pistachios, falafel and beetroot as much as dessert foods, and will happily go back to finish of savoury food after dessert etc.

My DD is 6 months, I was on a Skype call with my dad a few days ago and was holding DD on my lap. I suddenly noticed this little brown face smiling back at me on the screen. Her older brother had left a half eaten crunchie bar on the desk and she’d grabbed it without me even noticing! I was mortified but it was also a little funny. Certainly made her day 😂

@NotExactlyMrsCurrentAffairs

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

This would've annoyed me. Not the mars bar per sé although i wouldn't giveca kid chocolate until 6 months personally but plastering it all over Facebook like its some kind of joke would have sent me around the bend!

Dd1 had cake for her first birthday. With the benefit of hindsight I should have held off much much longer. Simply because there was no need to. She was perfectly happy with her broccoli and strawberries so there was no point introducing rubbish.

Around 1. I don't see the point of giving chocolate early as the child doesn't care and it's unhealthy. But it's not that bad to give a bit occasionally. E.g chocolate button every fortnight for a 1 year old. Regular large amounts would bother me. Also agree with a pp that juice is probably worse. Or sweets.

I have a photo of ds with a chocolate bunny guess he was about 8 months That was the first taste

He looked happy

Taste at about 8/9 months, small amount on birthday and has occasional bits now at 16 months.
I don’t make a fuss about food, she eats a very good balanced diet and is still BF. If I have a chocolate when she’s about I give her a tiny bit if she asks. It’s no big deal.

About 2 I think - we don't give him a lot now, in fact I think he's only had it a few times. Children don't need it, but I'm keen not to make it into a 'treat' item, or something that he puts on a pedestal because he has it so rarely, so we're trying not to make it into a big thing and just offering it when we have some (which is incredibly rarely anyway)

My first born wasn’t allowed chocolates or sweets or even cake, but on his 3rd birthday we bought him his first cake a Colin the caterpillar and he had a small slice. We rationed it until he started school, school seem to give it out willy nilly and it’s hard to take something off a child once they have been given it.

My second son has a milk allergy so he’s three and still hot had chocolate.

All mine were gone a year old before getting chocolate or juice. We waited till over a year for other things too.

@GameSetMatch our school is the same, we’re in Scotland and they seem obsessed with stuffing them full of tunnocks tea cakes, shortbread and irn bru every St Andrews day and Burns celebrations.

@PinkyU oooh Tunnocks tea cakes yumm! I had a Tunnocks snowball yesterday it was delicious! Totally off topic I know.

@NotExactlyMrsCurrentAffairs

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

Wow that’s shocking. I’d be furious.

I found my 3 year old giving his 2 month old sister chocolate buttons after the whole packet was gone.He said she loved them. She basically stuck them to the roof of her mouth and sucked.
Chocolate poo followed lol

@NotExactlyMrsCurrentAffairs

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

They few your three month old a Mars bar?? I don't get the grandparent obsession with feeding babies chocolate and cakes. I caught my aunties trying to feed my then five month old nephew eclairs and cream at a family bbq without my sister's permission. Like why the fuck??

*gave

About 11 months and he was given an Easter egg. He only had a teeny tiny bit but was sick.... I think it was too rich for him at that stage.

I selflessly ate the rest of the egg 🤣

He had some again at about 15 months.... his sisters birthday party. He bloody loved it!

About 8 months I think, not loads but a wee bit here or there.
No foods were off limits.

1st birthday

I think both were around 18 months/2 years

With my current little one, 9 months old, I would be over the moon if he ate some chocolate. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of foods he has put in his mouth he is still entirely milk fed (but not for the want of trying). Usually though it just seems to be something that happens when there is chocolate in the house so Christmas or Easter, our last little one was just over a year old when he had chocolate for the first time.

First birthday for mine - in the form of cake. Didn’t have much after that for quite a while really, she was a complete fruit monster - still is really, so never really had the opportunity for chocolate. Fortunately my parents at that point weren’t obsessed with giving her rubbish to eat - first thing they do now when they see her is offer her some crisps or a biscuit!!