You gave the baby a McFlurry?!

[SlateCoaster]

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.

Your voting system is messed up. The YANBU words don't match YANBU at all.

For what it's worth, the baby is WAY too young for a McFlurry. I opened this thinking we were talking about an 18 month old (meh).

Rather than going nuclear, I suggest you gently suggest that this is not to be repeated.

I don't understand this thread. Someone else have their own baby a spoonful of ice cream? I'm not seeing what the issue is tbh. It's only relatively recently that weaning was advised after 6 months - my oldest DC started weaning at 4 months and were perfectly fine. Allergies aside, it's not harmful to give a 5month old baby a little bit of ice cream on a hot day.

@Thewiseoneincognito

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.

Holy god! What the hell . Poor children

Mcflurry ingredients:

Reconstituted Skimmed MILK, Cream (Allergen Ingredient: MILK), Sugar, Whey Powder (Allergen Ingredient: MILK), Glucose Syrup, Allergen Ingredient: Skimmed MILK Powder, Stabilisers (Guar Gum, Carrageenan), Emulsifier (Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids), Flavouring.

Lots of things humans aren't designed to eat, so not something anyone, baby or adult, should be having frequently - definitely best left as a one-off treat sort of thing.

@BrilliantBetty

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 don't think you can say anything about formula or ice cream when you fed your child baby rice ffs.

Non issue, especially if the baby is someone else's.

I mean the baby won't drop dead but it seems an unnecessarily silly thing to do. At 5 months the baby is developing it's taste and it's gut is still brand new obvously a bit daft to bombard the brand new system with overly sweet processed crap.

@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.

It was one single poster making a dickish remark!

Love the 'formula milk is more sugary than vanilla ice-cream' takes. They're special.

The parent eating a McFlurry is bad enough, giving a bit to the baby just is worse.

As someone else said

First baby - OH MY GOD NO! Burn the parent at the stake!

Third baby - I have a photo of him chopping on my magnum at that age....

I don't think you can say anything about formula or ice cream when you fed your child baby rice ffs

It was recommended by health visitors when I had mine. It was the first thing most people over 30 ate. Ffs!

I still remember watching my nephew at nine months old crawling over to my DC pram and licking the wheels. After it had been outside on the mud and rain. He is still alive almost a decade later.

It was at that moment I got over myself as a parent.

It was one single poster making a dickish remark!

Two

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.

Meh couldn't get worked up about it.

I wouldn't give them actual spoonfuls myself but I did let my DS try various things, ice cream included, at this age on my finger. He's fine.

Definitely a bad idea. I guess when they deal with the consequences of that action at the business end of the baby’s digestive system they may reconsider it as a plan.

I didn’t wean until 6 months but I wouldn’t lose any sleep over this
as a one off.

I don't think you can say anything about formula or ice cream when you fed your child baby rice ffs.

It was what was recommended by HV.

Fruit and baby rice is a very normal thing to give.

Hang on, wtf is wrong with baby rice? This is a standard thing to feed a weaning baby, or at least it was when mine were little. They are all fine btw - no one died from the horror of being given perfectly normal baby food!

@newnortherner111

The parent eating a McFlurry is bad enough, giving a bit to the baby just is worse.

The Horror! A grown adult making a decision to have an ice cream on a hot day!

I really can't get that worked up over this, it's a couple of spoonfuls of ice cream (probably not even that), I stopped worrying so much when my DD shoved a handful of dog hair into her mouth. A little ice cream won't do any harm.

@PixieDust28

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.

@PixieDust28

This post is about me! I am the childs mother and I gave my 5 month old son a couple of spoonfuls of ice cream. I mentioned it to a friend (mother of 4) and she wasn't impressed. Her reaction was "You gave your 5 month old a McFlurry?!"

So I created this post to get other people's opinions.
He is my first child. We have started weaning him on little bits of fruit/veg. When my partner and I are eating, he tries to take our food and watches us with an open mouth - just like a little bird does when it gets fed by it's parents. Yesterday it was such a hot day, I treated myself to a McFlurry (I DO NOT normally eat fast food). My little man was watching, opening his mouth like a little bird because he wanted some of what mummy had. I gave him a couple of teeny spoonfuls (a few dabs of ice cream on the spoon) so he could feel the sensation of something cold that melts (our health visitor said other parents introduce this sensation with Quavers!!).

But as a first time parent.. I am just interested in the opinions of others.

Thank you so far to everyone who has shared their opinion.

@MrsHuntGeneNotJeremyObviously

Hang on, wtf is wrong with baby rice? This is a standard thing to feed a weaning baby, or at least it was when mine were little. They are all fine btw - no one died from the horror of being given perfectly normal baby food!

I think it's because it doesn't have any nutritional value (not my opinion and don't even know if it's true but I've seen people on here say it before).

So what?

Wait until your DC wonders off in the garden and you find them trying to eat soil. Then you won't worry so much about ice cream 🤣