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.

YAB a bit U. Only a couple of tastes and the baby is 5 months not a newborn or tiny baby. Most start weaning about then anyway. Yes we started with banana and babyrice but a couple licks of ice cream doesn't contain nearly as much sugar as formula (it's soo sweet) or the Ella's pouches of mango etc.

I'm not saying fling the 5mo a happy meal. But a couple of mouthfuls of ice cream.. meh.

I’ve seen worse!

A very ‘glamorous, over dressed’ young group of mums pushing these huge elaborate white prams around a department store in my town who had given their toddlers red bulls and monster drinks.

I couldn’t believe my eyes.

YABU. Completely unnecessary. The longer a baby doesn't develop a taste for sugar the better.

It honestly won't hurt if it was just a couple of spoonfuls. Not so long ago babies where weaned at 4 months. I know advice has changed but I really don't think this is anything to get worked up about.

IMO unnecessary to give a baby that age sugary crap atall...but also YABU in the sense that it's actually none of your business, as if their baby.

IF you're talking about your partner and your own baby; and looking for opinions to see if you are right to be cross, then that's a different story, as yes I would be pissed too if my H had given the kids anything that I deemed inappropriate.

But if not your baby, then don't let it get to you.

Good idea? No
End of the world? No. (Unless the baby is known to be intolerant to dairy)
Likely consequences? Nothing

This.

My two both decided they were weaning at 23 weeks and grabbed food off our plates to eat. Many 5m olds are ready to wean.

I let DS2 have a lick of my icecream at 9m... he grabbed it and wolfed the thing down gleefully. I had to buy myself a new one.

DS1 has never really had one as weaning revealed that he had CMPA, and with sensory issues, he dislikes the intense cold.
The CMPA became apparent through formula and baby porridge.

What peachescariad said

Meh. I couldn’t get worked up over this. A non-issue IMO.

Honestly couldn’t get worked up about this unless feeding them crap from maccy D’s was a regular occurrence.

If it was my DH I would ignore. No I wouldn't want my kids eating crap so young but it's a lick off a spoon, no big deal

@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.

Well done for making bottle feeding mothers feel shite. They may as well miss out the bottle stage and go straight to a McFlurry every four hours.

My DC are 19 and 20 and were weaned at 4 months as was the advice at that age. by 5 months they were eating a lot more variety of foods than a few spoons of ice-cream. Whilst it's not ideal, it's not the end of the world.

Not that we had as much information generally available then anyway, the internet being pretty much a newborn as well as not generally available in the average home.

We had to rely on midwives and books :)

I would have been livid because I didn't introduce any foods until 6 months, but if I'd already started weaning then it's just a small amount and I don't see the fuss.

I agree it's not a good idea and I wouldn't do it, but it probably won't make the baby ill.
For me it's a case of why would you introduce a baby to sugar that early? I would be worried that once they have had that they will be less likely to eat veg etc and would want to establish them eating healthily before I introduced them to the idea that McFlurrys even existed.
On the other hand what do I know. That is the approach I took with DS1, and he was a fantastic eater, would eat lentils, spinach, liver, all sorts as a baby - but also became an absolute sugar monster as an older child/ teenager, snaffling biscuits, cake etc at the drop of a hat. So maybe I created a monster with my lack of McFlurrys at five months.

I'm not sure how the breastfeeding only brigade managed to turn this into an attack on formula, but alas, they've done it again.

Grow up.

I'm no fan of McDonalds but I can't imagine, as a one-off, this would cause harm.

I'd be more wary of the child developing a taste for them when older.

Couldn’t get worked up about a couple of spoonfuls tbh.

DD decided she was weaning at 5.5 months when she snatched a ginger bread man out of my hand and started gnawing on it.

@Zari29

I would be pretty furious. You don't feed someone else's baby that young. We only started solids at 6 months so this would have been a massive issue for me.

It was the parent. 🤷‍♀️

I’m pretty sure mine tasted ice cream for the first time around that age.

@Whyhello

At 5 months they shouldn’t even be having food but if they do, it should be fruit and vegetables. I wouldn’t even give my 10 month old a McFlurry.

Are you serious? It was few bits of Ice cream! All my kids were quite hungry babies and were spoonfed at that age. No negative effects, no allergies, have grown up healthy with no issues. So I totally do not agree with you that a 5 month shouldn't be given food. While that may well be the current advice it's not gospel and all babies are different. It's up to the parents as they know their own baby best .

But honestly judging a parent for giving a 5 month old a tiny bit of ice cream! I think the world's gone nuts.

first baby? I’d be really cross. By the time I got to number 3, I was far more relaxed about this kind of thing.

@SoMuchForSummerLove

A lick of ice cream off a spoon is really no big deal.

I can't imagine me stopping to 'discuss my weaning strategy' with my husband before letting one of my kids lick a bit of ice cream.

Babies are messy, most of it probably went on face/hands/clothes/hair/shoes/walls anyway.

I meant it would have been helpful for them to work out what they want to do, did they want to try just giving veg first or happy to let baby eat anything. Some parents don't like their babies eating meat early.

I think 5 months is too young to be eating although if a few months older I’d think it was ok I’m the rare occasion.

@RoomOfRequirement

I'm not sure how the breastfeeding only brigade managed to turn this into an attack on formula, but alas, they've done it again.

Grow up.

They always manage to. Didn't you know their capes are washed and dried already for the week ahead .

YABU to start a thread about it but not have the balls to say it to them. If you're that bothered by what they were doing, say something.