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.

@Ponoka7

For me it would depend on if the baby is bf or bottle fed. Baby milk has cow's milk and sweeteners in. A small amount of ice-cream isn't that far off. If the baby is bf then the nappy explosion might indicate a dairy sensitivity. The point is that it isn't needed and wasn't going to cool the baby down. They say hold off until six months, but there's a grey area in the research from five months. If it's the other parent, then they get a say, anyone else, then it's a no.

What the fucking fuck

@SnoogyWoo

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

lol calm down it's just ice cream.

Pretty shocking tbh. I have a nearly 7 month old and I personally wouldnt dream of giving him anything close to ice cream at this age.

I can only imagine that the type of person who finds that 'shocking' must be of a very delicate disposition, or have led a very sheltered life.

@Serpenta

I can only imagine that the type of person who finds that 'shocking' must be of a very delicate disposition, or have led a very sheltered life.

Or have a pfb.

Yes, or that

Some people on this thread are bonkers. It's a bit of McFlurry! The pearl clutching and outrage is hilarious.

The reason they say 6 months is because there are ALWAYS folk who interpret that flexibly. It's most likely fine to start weaning a 5-month-old but weaning earlier than that is associated with a variety of poor health outcomes including obesity, infections and anaemia.

Weaning before 17 weeks is associated strongly with weight issues.

I don't think it's the end of the world tbh, I did start weaning DS at 5 months though which is entirely unacceptable on MN. I didn't give DS ice cream at that age but it was February when he was 5 months so it didn't really come up, I'd probably have let him have a lick if he'd been 5 months in June

@HavelockVetinari

The reason they say 6 months is because there are ALWAYS folk who interpret that flexibly. It's most likely fine to start weaning a 5-month-old but weaning earlier than that is associated with a variety of poor health outcomes including obesity, infections and anaemia.

Weaning before 17 weeks is associated strongly with weight issues.

Guidelines were 4 months when mine were born. So that's when I started. Absolutely none of the issues you've outlined there with any of them. Youngest is 11 so not that long ago!

Calm down. When my lot were little Heinz sold jars of baby food to be used from 12 weeks as it was the age we started to wean. My children didn't choke and they all grew up to be healthy adults with no allergies and were happy to eat anything. Giving a baby ice cream at 5 months is not the worst thing you can do to them.

Depends on whether it's the first baby or third 😂

I'm glad I didn't read about breast milk ice cubes/ ice lollies when my first was tiny. I had postnatal OCD and I just imagine myself reading it, thinking that's what I 'should' be doing to be a good mum and feeling like shit when the baby didn't want any.

Feels like a hell of a lot of effort to express breast milk to freeze when the baby will have 2 or 3 licks and just decides they want milk the normal way as it's easier!

Meh. DS2 had a lick of ice cream at about the same age.

I can assure you the world did not fall in.

He enjoyed it very much.

No fucking way would I be expressing for ice lollies 😆

@HavelockVetinari

The reason they say 6 months is because there are ALWAYS folk who interpret that flexibly. It's most likely fine to start weaning a 5-month-old but weaning earlier than that is associated with a variety of poor health outcomes including obesity, infections and anaemia.

Weaning before 17 weeks is associated strongly with weight issues.

My children are now in their twenties. Guidelines in the nineties were to start weaning at four months but three months was fine if they were hungry babies. None of them made it to four months and my health visitor advised me to start giving solids to my youngest at three and a half months as they were a small baby. None of them are fussy eaters and none of them have ever had a weight problem. A minute amount of soft ice cream on a hot day will not hurt a five month old baby in any way whatsoever.

Honestly I don't think it's an issue - I mean not great if it's a regular part of their diet, but it's a soft, milk based product which isn't a choke hazard. So many people start weaning before 6 months, for various good and not so good reasons. Yes not ideal food but there are so many other truly bad things going on in this world, an issue like this would not be on my radar.

Times have changed, my 2 used to love rusks and baby rice. Oh and wotsits and skips, also partial for a chunk of a french stick.

Some people would be shocked if they knew what us 70s babies were weaned on. Runny eggs at 3 months old?! The very thought! Mashed up food from mums plate at 4 months?! Oh the outrage.

Drop of whisky in baby's milk

@Ponoka7

breastmilk tastes sweet too so ice cream wouldn't be far off that either 🤷‍♀️

@vodkaredbullgirl

Drop of whisky in baby's milk

@vodkaredbullgirl

women folk in Hungary used to cook poppy seeds & honey in milk, strain & cool the mixture then give to babies to help them with sleeping or dip a bread crust in the milk then let baby chew on it to relieve teething pain

poppy seeds contain opium alkaloids.
nothing like a hint of class A drug in your evening bottle, eh?

@Creamcrackersandricecakes

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.

Agree!!

It’s giving me a good chuckle though! 😂

Your voting system makes no sense.

Phew, it's not just me, was just thinking the same thing lol
I haven't voted as the options are back to front
I do think it's a daft idea to give McFlurry to a baby, and never would myself, but hey, that's just me and I'm aware others think differently - their choice.

It would obviously be wrong to feed someone else’s baby ice cream but no big deal to feed your own baby. They are your baby! It’s not like you let them have a nibble on some anthrax.