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 weaned ds at 6m on the dot. Literally the day before he was 6m I didn’t give him food but the 6m mark exactly. With dd she turned 6m a couple of weeks before I went back to work and she’d already started wanting food from our plates so we started then.

I know ds had ice cream at 6m. Dd not because it was winter.

I personally wouldn't waste my icecream on a small baby who doesn't know any different but I can't get worked up over this.

I keep reading the title of this thread as ‘You named the baby McFlurry!!!’

Not ideal as a first food! But unless baby has CMPA he/she will most likely be fine, maybe a bit windy but fine.

@GloriousMystery

I keep reading the title of this thread as ‘You named the baby McFlurry!!!’

That would certainly rival 'Balonz'

Dc1 was allergic to milk and we had such a stressful time weaning.

Dc2 had no allergies and it was a delight to see him enjoying a few licks of ice cream when he was 8/9 months.

Don't judge others choices.

@Sparklfairy - that clip is great 😅

Began son on solids at 16 weeks because that is what the guidance used to be - and my mum and MIL were both up in arms that I was leaving it so late. In retrospect, they were right!

He took to solids like a duck to water. He'd have had your McFlurry and sucked on the fries too.

I hasten to add that I was very careful what he ate at 4 months, and pureed (then mashed) our food to give him. But I do remember us eating a lovely lunch out where he spent the whole time gumming on a thick-cut chip. Heaven.

Knowing what I know now (that the 'science' is variable, dodgy, biased, driven by external market forces in the developed world and necessity in the third world), I'd have introduced solids at 3 months - the time he began trying to grab food off other people's plates.

That's what guided parents before the fecking books and healthcare

Haha to the lady with the dog ! 🤣 hope your dog now enjoys his first ice cream. Mine knows the sound of the ice cream vans and is at the door in seconds !

Dogs can't have chocolate so a spoonful or two of ice-cream every so often only seems civilized.

@bakingdemon

YABU. Absolutely no way a kid that tiny should have anything with that much sugar in it. We don't let our 2.5yo have ice cream.

If you want to give your baby something cooling try ice cubes or a lolly made from breast milk.

Poor bloody child.

@legotruck

6 months is a recent guideline. I would not be the least surprised if in 10 years time it's back to 4 months as the fashion changes and new experts need to make a name for themselves

I have to laugh at this. Recent?

It's been 20 years since the WHO recommended breastfeeding only for 6 months and 18 years since it was adopted by the UK!

Yes recent!

Babies have been weaned for thousands of years - fashions in baby care come and go. In 50 years time people will wonder how on earth babies survived the early 21st C

If you’re doing the whole ‘give them a bit of what you’re having’ then it’s a great excuse to look at your own diet and make better choices.
There is no need for a baby under the recommended weaning age to have spoonfuls of processed sugar crap.
A better alternative would be to make ice lollies with their milk.

Not something I could get worked up about.

My mates youngest DC had ice cream as their first taste of food. Friends was eating and ice cream with DC in their arms. Baby dives for the ice cream and takes a mouthful. They were not being offered if. They were a few weeks off 6 months. Funnily enough they are now the only kid I know who doesn't like ice cream!!!

[quote 21Flora]@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]

And yet babies do not die of arsenic poisoning or spontaneously combust from the few teaspoons of baby rice they eat at the start of their weaning journey. Amazing.

Wouldn't bother me at all. A few spoonfuls of ice cream aren't going to do anything serious. No harm done.

@JewelGarden apart from ‘ Arsenic is also associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes and infant mortality, with impacts on child health (1), and exposure in utero and in early childhood has been linked to increases in mortality in young adults due to multiple cancers, lung disease, heart attacks, and kidney failure (2).’ according to the WHO. You keep feeding your children baby rice with unsafe levels of arsenic though.

When I gave birth 20 years ago, 4 months was the standard for weaning.

When I was born in the 1970s, people were weaning at 6 weeks.

My old neighbour told me that when a relative of hers had been born in the 1950s, the mum had become seriously ill so dad had to take the days old baby home with him, who he fed mashed potato, gravy, and milky porridge for a few days until someone explained to him he shouldn't be giving a newborn anything other than formula/breastmilk. Both mum and baby were fine though!.

[quote 21Flora]@JewelGarden apart from ‘ Arsenic is also associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes and infant mortality, with impacts on child health (1), and exposure in utero and in early childhood has been linked to increases in mortality in young adults due to multiple cancers, lung disease, heart attacks, and kidney failure (2).’ according to the WHO. You keep feeding your children baby rice with unsafe levels of arsenic though.[/quote]
And yet generations of babies were weaned on it and live to tell the tale. 🤷‍♀️

YANBU McFlurries are delicious and would have done no harm to your baby. Seriously what do people think would have happened?

[quote 21Flora]@JewelGarden apart from ‘ Arsenic is also associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes and infant mortality, with impacts on child health (1), and exposure in utero and in early childhood has been linked to increases in mortality in young adults due to multiple cancers, lung disease, heart attacks, and kidney failure (2).’ according to the WHO. You keep feeding your children baby rice with unsafe levels of arsenic though.[/quote]
What levels are we talking about here? One spoonful? Five spoonfuls? A box a day? Five boxes a day?

And shut up with your jibe about my children, you have no idea if I even have children let alone if I fed them baby rice.

@Blossomtoes Yes, but current research shows how harmful too much arsenic is. It has been shown to permanently reduce the IQ of infants and exposure as a baby leads can cause kidney failure and cancer in teenagers. Why would you still give it to your baby when there are many safe alternatives? There are safe legal limits, of which 50% of brands in the U.K. exceed by at least double. A number of US firms have announced in the past few days that they will no longer produce baby rice. Times change.

Nobody should be eating that crap never mind a baby, no wonder disease is at an all time high.

@SnoogyWoo

Nobody should be eating that crap never mind a baby, no wonder disease is at an all time high.

ah yes, ‘disease’ caused by McFlurries is all over the papers

@SnoogyWoo

Nobody should be eating that crap never mind a baby, no wonder disease is at an all time high.

It’s not though, is it? People just no longer die from it.