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.

On holiday in Turkey I saw a British mother bottle feed her baby ? 10 months old COCA COLA - no lie.

Someone gave my 8wk old baby alcohol 😔 I was visiting an elderly relative at their care home and it was the Xmas party. My baby was sitting on their knee facing away from me and we were chatting. I caught the lady on the chair next to baby dipping her finger in her alcoholic drink and letting the baby suck it. 😠

Same baby at 4 months old, very unhappy and screaming in a hotel room I was staying in with my mum. I nipped to the loo and baby went quiet. Came out to find my mum holding a chocolate finger in baby's mouth who was happily sucking all the chocolate off the biscuit 😖

It was fairly common to rub whisky on a teething baby's gums or to dip their dummy in jam when I was a baby. We were also probably scoffing porridge or weetabix or my DMs favourite, rich tea biscuits soaked in milk, well before 4 months.

I get that we know better now but a few licks of ice-cream isn't really a big issue.

To be fair, you did ask to be judged!
I think it’s fine, I have ; healthy kids and I would have done that if so inclined.

My daughter in law squashed a chip up and fed it to her six month old in a restaurant. When I had my son the health visitor recommended baby rice at 8 weeks. Times change but I’m sure a bit of extremely soft ice cream won’t cause any harm

The ingrediants in a McFlurry or a MacDonalds Happy Meal are much more natural than those found in the vast majority of baby food; and tastes less sweet too. People need to think before they criticise.

Are they?
Taken from Maccy D’s website:

Vanilla Reduced Fat Ice Cream
Ingredients: Milk, Sugar, Cream, Corn Syrup, Natural Flavor, Mono and Diglycerides, Cellulose Gum, Guar Gum, Carrageenan, Vitamin A Palmitate.
Contains: Milk.
M&M Mini Milk Chocolate Candies
Ingredients: Milk Chocolate (Sugar, Chocolate, Skim Milk, Cocoa Butter, Lactose, Milkfat, Soy Lecithin, Salt, Artificial Flavors), Sugar, Contains 2% Or Less: Corn Starch, Corn Syrup, Colored with (Yellow 5 Lake, Red 40 Lake, Blue 1 Lake, Yellow 6 Lake, Blue 2 Lake, Yellow 5, Red 40, Blue 1, Yellow 6, Blue 2), Dextrin.

I did the same. My baby was almost six months. We bought an ice cream. We were on holiday, if was July

We let her have a mouthful or two

No harm done

I would. It's just ice cream

None issue. If you gave baby a Mars bar then I suppose they could say something.

@GuidoTheKillerPimp

*The ingrediants in a McFlurry or a MacDonalds Happy Meal are much more natural than those found in the vast majority of baby food; and tastes less sweet too. People need to think before they criticise.*

Are they?
Taken from Maccy D’s website:

Vanilla Reduced Fat Ice Cream
Ingredients: Milk, Sugar, Cream, Corn Syrup, Natural Flavor, Mono and Diglycerides, Cellulose Gum, Guar Gum, Carrageenan, Vitamin A Palmitate.
Contains: Milk.
M&M Mini Milk Chocolate Candies
Ingredients: Milk Chocolate (Sugar, Chocolate, Skim Milk, Cocoa Butter, Lactose, Milkfat, Soy Lecithin, Salt, Artificial Flavors), Sugar, Contains 2% Or Less: Corn Starch, Corn Syrup, Colored with (Yellow 5 Lake, Red 40 Lake, Blue 1 Lake, Yellow 6 Lake, Blue 2 Lake, Yellow 5, Red 40, Blue 1, Yellow 6, Blue 2), Dextrin.

I'm guessing OP's baby had a taste of the ice cream without any bits in not the worst one you could find on their website

No for me. Mcfurry is only allowed after 5 years old, once or twice a year at most. They can have gelatos from 2 years old.

Wow!
This is a whole new world to me.

I doubt it would do much harm, their baby -their decision, although I probably wouldn't. It wouldn't bother me as much as the time i
took my kids to a local event for local families where the only drinks they served were teas, coffees and cans of coke. My kids were under 3, they couldn't even offer them water so we went home. I saw a whole load of other very small children guzzling cans of coke and I was shocked.

Fucking hell. 40% here think giving McFlurry is OK for a 5 month old. Jesus wept...

Did he really weep though?

I've voted YANBU as in not unreasonable to think it's wrong - it is.

Because he is your baby and you feed him, who cares what anyone else thinks. I would of done exactly the same. I have two boys are both are completely different eaters, one is so picky and the other will eat anything and I’ve not raised them differently. Also why are you justifying how often you eat McDonald’s, it’s no one else’s business

@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.

Formula is basically the same as ice cream.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

You moron.

@Quiero

This thread is batshit but beautiful old school mumsnet at the same time. Lovely stuff. I do wonder whether there’s a correlation between the ‘Oh my god Sugar ’ posters and the people who can’t understand why their kids are lying and eating in secret when they’re older.

Babies weaned at 3 months on Greggs pasties and cold tea in their bottles might raise a slight eyebrow from me but that’s about it. Parenting must be so hard nowadays with all these extra things to make you feel guilty about.

Absofuckinglutely

Guido that ingredient list I would assume is from the American McDonalds website going by the spellings of 'flavor' and 'color'. There are different regulations about what goes into food in the UK. I may be wrong but I don't think we have corn syrup in ice cream in the UK.

I do wonder whether there’s a correlation between the ‘Oh my god Sugar shock’ posters and the people who can’t understand why their kids are lying and eating in secret when they’re older.

I see. Now I understand why some posters boast about giving alcohol to their babies, presumably to avoid them becoming heavy drinkers in secret when they are older.

These babies are getting pretty nippy and quite good at raiding the cupboard and bars when you don't look!

This thread IS batshit indeed. It should go in Classics, it IS true that posters fall over themselves to justify or encourage feeding McDo to a 5 months old.

Yanbu

When my children were 5 months? No. With the benefit of hindsight now they're older, meh, wouldn't get worked up about it.

@Cheeserton

Fucking hell. 40% here think giving McFlurry is OK for a 5 month old. Jesus wept...

It's 61% at the moment. OP said YANBU = Get a grip, it's a million degrees at the moment and it was just a couple of spoonfuls. No harm done. And YANBU is at 61%

Consultant paediatrician here. Happily gave my kids all kinds of interesting food experiences early on. The six months advice is guidance only, based on estimates of best practice, and often on current consensus opinion - think of how different in maturity babies can be - one born at 36 weeks v another born at 42 for example. Some of the specialist dieticians bemoan the lack of variety early on, as there’s a fairly strong alternative school of thought that a big variety of flavours pre-6 months when everything is new leads to babies being more accepting of many different foods when they’re older. I’m not sure I agree - but that’s the point - it’s not an exact science! Allergy advice shifted massively a few years back from avoiding potentially allergenic foods before 8-12 months to introducing them alongside other weaning foods. I can see the sense of not over-exposing to sugar early on as they may prefer it, but you can control what you give them. I’m astonished by the fuss about it on here to be honest - I think I could only get really worked up about it if McFlurry’s were their main source of nutrition! Don’t you worry, people get utterly neurotic about their babies and I think that can be more problematic than giving your baby the lovely experience of nice cold ice cream.