Feeding a baby chocolate

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

First baby about 2. Second baby probably around 6 months.

First born was about 1
Second was about 7mths when first born gave her a magic star
3rd was about 5mths when the second born shoved a button in her mouth

2 months old I think
By her older sibling when my back was turned!

White chocolate button probably around 6 months, but he was weaned at 4 months (standard at the time he was born). I was nervous about him having milk or dark chocolate for ages because I'm allergic to it. So is he now as an adult and is getting worse, just like I did. If I hadn't been allergic it wouldn't have really bothered me if he had it in small amounts.

We don't really buy chocolate or have it in. Same with fizzy drinks.

DC has had chocolate cake at about a year I think? Then some ice cream a few weeks later at a party.

But we just don't have much of that sort of stuff in the house. Not because we don't eat it, but because we all have fairly sweet tooths and I realised we just ate it all too quickly if it's there years ago. We just made a switch, only buy in bits and bobs now and then rather than having crisps, chocolate and fizzy drinks as "regular shop" items before dc came along.

I won't pretend if wasn't hard at first but after a few weeks it was fine. I feel like we went cold turkey but the reality is we do eat pudding when out or its a special occasion, while when we were pre dc if was nightly. And I have no idea why we ate so much crap. Waste of money, don't miss it now

I especially am glad DC haven't got into fizzy drinks, it was like a drug habit breaking that up from being a regular daily thing to being just a treat. It would have been 10000x harder had DC already been around.

11 months. It didn't hurt, two years later at a play group Easter egg hunt he gave away all his eggs to other children after tasting one and realising it wasn't very nice chocolate. He's always been quite particular! Food isn't just for nutrition, nothing wrong with a little bit of something that just tastes nice.

Held off till 1 year with all sweet treats / cake / chocolate

I held off.

I held back and did not to give any prior to her starting nursery at 9 months. At nursery they have a starter and main or main and dessert so since starting nursery she’s had crumble, fruit cake and chocolate cake on occasions. Most of the time the desert is fruit but not all the time. I’ve tried to avoid sweet things as I had gestational diabetes so it puts us both at risk of type 2 diabetes later in life but I’ll be letting her have some cake on her birthday.

When I was little the dentist told my dm that the best thing to give me in terms of sweets was a little bit of plain chocolate after a meal ie before I cleaned my teeth.

Sadly my df's stupid sister handed me a huge bag of caramels when I was about 2 and the rot set in. DM was furious that they'd been given directly to me, rather than to her so that I didn't go mad with them. Also the idea was at the time that milk teeth weren't important and so all the teeth I've had from about 7 have huge amalgam fillings in and are gradually getting crowns.

Have a dentist's appt tomorrow to hopefully repair a 50-odd year old molar. I was saving money by making my own golden syrup, over-concentrated it and when I came to use it, it was like glue.Couldn't resist trying some, and it stuck to the tooth. it pulled away and a few days later I realised it had pulled away part of the wall of the tooth.

I hope it's not a crown for 2 reasons. 1 cost 500€ and 2 they take the nerve out before crowning the tooth.
I also don't like French crowns, rather than being like a capsule that sits over a peg they make a stump and stick a bit of porcelain on top of that. I've had them come unstuck before now.

Far too late, but I regret all the penny arrow bars I spent my pocket money on as a kid.