You gave the baby a McFlurry?!

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Parent was eating a McFlurry ice cream and gave 5 month old baby a couple of spoonfuls...

YABU - WTF?! He's only 5 months old. His digestive system isn't ready for sugar-rich ice cream! Cue upset tummy and exploding nappy.

YANBU - Get a grip, it's a million degrees at the moment and it was just a couple of spoonfuls. No harm done.

I believe weaning guidance is set as a catch all and any underpinning studies show food before 17 weeks can have a detrimental effect on babies digestive system. Conversely, weaning too late can also cause a higher risk of allergies but this is still not huge.

We took the 17 weeks underpinning science more seriously that the 6 month guidance and all 3 of our babies were weaned at around 22 weeks at the earliest.

I saw a lovely weaning article by a midwife once and she said she gave her baby ice cream. I don't have a problem with it provided parents are aware of the guidance and the reason behind it. And even then it's not my baby so I mean who cares really. They're hardly poking the baby in the eye with a sharp stick are they! It's a couple mouthfuls of icecream...

Personally I wouldn't but I wouldn't judge you for it, especially in a spur of the moment type situation.

I hate how some people get really agitated with you for not doing things like that though. I remember my friend's mum making snide comments for not giving my then 4 month old DD "a little bit of chocolate of your finger. Just wet it in your mouth first". I didn't, I couldn't see the need for it at all. Yet I was criticised and ridiculed for it!

Depends on the baby . My second was sitting up and feeding himself solids well before 5 months. At 6 months he was shovelling normal food in with a spoon by himself . Daughter was dainty and fussy and still on purée by then so it might have made her puke ...By that age my sons normally healthy diet would definitely have let him sneak the odd dollop of ice cream or wedge of cheesecake. Parents choice , babies let you know in the most dramatic way if something doesn’t suit them . A bit of crap here and there has never killed one that I know of .

I should have just given my son McFlurrys. Or nothing. Obviously starvation is better than formula milk.

No one on this thread has said there is anything wrong with using formula

It used to be advised to put baby rice into bottles from 6 weeks old, if you had a particularly hungry baby.

@ForTheLoveOfSleep - completely agree, the machines are cleaned very regularly (my DS used to work in McDonalds when at college and told me a lot about how super clean it all was kept. All the senior staff were also experts at trouble shooting basic errors with the machines because it took so long to get an engineer out.

Mcdonalds may be many things, but it is all very clean.

I just don't see this as an issue. Six months is a guideline, not a rule, and I always thought it made the most sense to start giving a baby solids when they started wanting them - usually made abundantly clear by the staring, lip smacking, and lunging for stuff that I was eating.

Generally I gave babies the same things we all ate, possible mashed up or cut up, and in smaller amounts.

No baby that young should be given anything from McDonald’s.

Can't believe no one has posted this yet!!

Probably wouldnt have given them a McDonalds flurry but all mine were weaned before 5 months so from that aspect it wouldn't bother me.

Only came here for the crack cocaine comment.
6 pages in though, took a while.

He’ll be fine, a lick of icecream won’t hurt him. Years ago they put rum on sore gums.

This thread is completely fucking bonkers.
Kids in poverty stricken countries abroad are literally having to drink water laced with cow shit, because it's all that's available. Kids in Syria and Palestine are being blown to pieces by weapons probably supplied by our own government.
And here on MN, the sanctimummies are judging, pearl clutching and shaming people for giving their babies a taste of a perfectly normal foodstuff.
FFS.

At least it wasn't salty chips and a burger or worse chicken nuggets.

My husband's uncle gave my 12 week old baby a lick of his tarnished, silver-plated ice cream spoon (which had been in his mouth). I was shocked but he thought it was funny. He's a doctor as well!!!!!

@SpunBodgeSquarepants

My 4 month old will be enjoying 2 or 3 mouthfuls of ice cream when we're in Cornwall next week - I doubt it'll scar him for life.

I'm sure he'll love it! Guidelines said weaning from 4 months when mine were tiny so by 5 or 6 months they'd tried all sorts.

And no they're not sugar munchers or addicted to mcds or obese now. Actually my DS is vegan and runs a gym club for 11-15 year old lads, and he went through a phase of only eating ambrosia custard at 8 months old.

@MorriseysGladioli it used to be but things move on. We now know that baby rice is absolutely dreadful, empty calories and full of arsenic. Literally days ago it was announced that half of baby rice sold in the U.K. has twice the legal levels of arsenic.

[quote SoreNSad]@TakeYourFinalPosition

The problem isn’t the ice cream ingredients, the milk has been pasteurised. The problem is whether the machine used in Mr Whippy/soft serve has been cleaned. If not, it can harbour harmful bacteria. Apparently enough vendors fall below hygiene standards for the risk to have been mentioned by doctors in various medical journals/pregnancy websites. Personally I wouldn’t take the risk, either during pregnancy or while the child is very young.[/quote]
Mcdonalds is extremely clean.
Fast food chains are cleaner and stricter on hygiene than most restaurants.

That clip is brilliant @Sparklfairy

I remember how much fun DS1 has feeding DS2 pickled onion monster munch.

@fashionablefennel

Joke aside, the comments "my kid was fed all kind of junk food when he was little and is now a magnificent fit and healthy adult" are unhelpful and disingenuous.

We do have an obesity problem in this country, kids ARE fed far too much junk food and sugar, more than ever.

Normalising McDo from 5 months is doing no favour to anyone at all.

It's "only" a pack of crips, it's "only" a can of coke, it's "only" cookies, it's not crack cocaine, bladibla.
Looking at the state of this country, it's just as bad, and it starts somewhere.

Feeding kids nothing but health food isn't wise either, and nor is restricting a group of foods to "bad for you". Everything in moderation and encourage good choices.

It's obviously not ideal, but in the grand scheme of things it's nothing, definitely not worth getting the judgeypants out for.

@Slankets

I really don't see how 2 mouthfuls of mcflurry is going to any damage what so ever to a baby obviously engage common sense and don't give them a full icecream everyday but 2 mouth fulls on a hot a day as a one off some people really need to get a grip

This.

It’s not something I would ever have done but 2 mouthfuls of McFlurry isn’t going to do any harm to a 5 month old baby.

YANBU. As for the people thinking that 5 months is too young for solids . I knew DS was ready at five months because he grabbed food off my plate and started gumming it. Some babies are ready earlier than others.
As for the child having a McFlurry, it was a taste not a whole one FFS!
I also formula-fed my DS btw. He's now a strapping 11 year old who rarely gets ill and eats a wide variety of veg. There needs to be a little unclenching on this thread imo.