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.

Honestly don't worry.

I did the same when my almost 7 year old was 5 months old, and even told the health visitor who laughed and said a tiny tastes of icecream isn't going to do any harm.

What harm would it actually do?! It’s fine. Most children i know are such ridiculously fussy eaters- don’t like this, don’t like that, won’t have this, won’t have that and I’m honestly beginning to think it’s because the parents fuss arse so much about what they give them, that a preoccupation with food becomes the norm. It’s so yawn!

It’s not recommended and it wouldn’t be good if ice cream made up a substantial part of their diet, but a couple of spoonfuls on a hot day… meh 🤷‍♀️ I’m not going to worry about it.

Just to say dd1s first taste of food was mint chocolate ice cream at 3 months! I came down stairs to find DH feeding it to her! Obviously I was not happy, but I can safely say she has made it to the age of 16 and the Ice cream did her no harm what so ever. Not even an exploding nappy.

Well I will raise you one OP. I have a puppy who I spoil. But I would never, ever let her eat ice-cream.

Last week DH, DD2 and I went to a famous ice cream place near us for a treat of 99’s. The girl in front of us bought a 99 and a small tub of the ice cream. A few minutes later we sat at the pier to eat the 99s and we saw the girl (in her 20’s, not a child) give her dog the ice cream in the tub😱😱😱😱

@aliensprig

I saw a parent feeding her four month old a magnum. Aside from the various weaning fails, who wastes a magnum on a baby?!

@aliensprig

abso-fucking-lutely.

if the higher quality is not appreciated it's a total waste.
I seldom drink anyway, but would only ever have wine mixed with cola (it's a Hungarian thing, like shandy in the UK) so no point using good wine, any cheap plonk will do.
A Magnum for a baby is VU

@Imapotato

It’s not recommended and it wouldn’t be good if ice cream made up a substantial part of their diet, but a couple of spoonfuls on a hot day… meh 🤷‍♀️ I’m not going to worry about it.

Just to say dd1s first taste of food was mint chocolate ice cream at 3 months! I came down stairs to find DH feeding it to her! Obviously I was not happy, but I can safely say she has made it to the age of 16 and the Ice cream did her no harm what so ever. Not even an exploding nappy.

My mum always tells everyone my first taste of food was at my christening age 4 and a half months, my grandad gave me a chocolate digestive

Must admit I love chocolate now but I'm sure it's not because it was my first taste of food.

I am genuinely interested to know do people REALLY stick to milk only until 6 months?
I don’t think I would have managed it when mine were babies.

Yes of course! It's completely normal now, just as it would've been unusual (or unheard of!) when we were being weaned. I can only think of one friend who gave solids before 6 months, milk only (formula or breast) is the standard, completely unremarkable option.

@ElephantOfRisk

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 :)

Yes to this ^, my kids are teens and were were told to start weaning at 16 weeks. They would have probably been having a few licks of yoghurt at 5m along with baby rice and mushed up veggies. I can’t see that a few licks of a McFlurry is too much different than a yoghurt. I certainly wouldn’t get excited about it.

My 5 nearly 6 month old has had few licks of ice cream thanks to his toddler dd and sucking on a space raider crisp that dd managed to get from teenage DS full of salt!!
Try forget about and it move on to the healthy stuff!

It’s 6 months for a reason

6 months is pretty arbitrary, actually. It's based on keeping children in developing countries safe, and arguably doesn't apply in countries that have safe water and food supplies. It also potentially causes harm - good summary of the debate here

A lot of cultures are far more fluid about weaning ages than we are, and manage to produce perfectly healthy children. 20 years ago, weaning at 4 months was the norm in the UK, yet childhood obesity and allergies were far less common than they are now.

@Annasgirl

Well I will raise you one OP. I have a puppy who I spoil. But I would never, ever let her eat ice-cream.

Last week DH, DD2 and I went to a famous ice cream place near us for a treat of 99’s. The girl in front of us bought a 99 and a small tub of the ice cream. A few minutes later we sat at the pier to eat the 99s and we saw the girl (in her 20’s, not a child) give her dog the ice cream in the tub😱😱😱😱

My dog loves a spoon of ice-cream, on her little saucer that's kept especially for ice-cream moments.

@Maharajah20 I am genuinely interested to know do people REALLY stick to milk only until 6 months?
I don’t think I would have managed it when mine were babies

Honestly yes! My 90th centipede baby was on milk only until 6 months. Granted it was a lot of milk (she was crawling at 4.5 months and needed the calories for her adventures!) but the current advice is that their tummies aren’t quite mature enough before 6 months. I know lots of people who were fine being weaned at 4 months in my generation (80s!) but improved research changes the advice. Just because I was fine being put down on my tummy to sleep doesn’t mean I don’t listen to the latest research re SIDS and the ‘back to sleep’ advice.

Funnily enough advice can go all the way around again though! Apparently my mum was dead set against me being swaddled as she worried about cot death, my grandma was super pro me being swaddled and 35 years later there I was swaddling my own baby against my mum’s advice

*centile!!! Not centipede 😂😂

Some experts think a child has a better chance of avoiding food allergies if weaned at 4 months.

My 90th centipede baby

Ooof. You must be kept busy looking after 90 centipede babies.

Not likely at 5 months though!

Perhaps not, but not far off once they get crawling! I'm sure babies not much older have put worse things in their mouth then a few tiny spoons of ice cream.

I’ve got no problem with that at all. My children are 11 and 13. Eldest was weaned at 20 weeks, youngest at 17 weeks. Neither are damaged from that - they’ve always been allowed to eat whatever we eat - they are healthy, happy, intelligent kids with no allergies, love trying all sorts of foods and don’t go off and binge ‘bad food’ behind our backs because they’ve always been allowed everything in moderation (unlike some friends whose parents have and still do restrict certain foods so when they have access to them at parties or play dates they have no control). This was him at six months.

Those machines are absolutely filthy, the reason they're never working is because they're such a pain in the arse to clean. You're recommended not to have any soft serve ice cream when pregnant due to the bacteria so I definitely wouldn't give that to a tiny baby. Normal ice cream maybe but I'd wait until a bit older personally even just for a taste

With my first I would've been shocked, horrored, angry and upset.
My second, slightly more relaxed.
My third and current... wouldn't bat an eyelid,
It's ice cream not crack cocaine

My first didn't have anything like that until she was 1.

My second got her first lick of ice cream soon after she started weaning at 6 months. Probably not ideal but her sister was having one so it seemed only fair....

I don't think it's that terrible tbh.

@legotruck

Fuck sake. A reverse

Nobody gives a shiny shit and your friend is no friend using a spoonful of McFlurry to act superior.

@legotruck

How is this a reverse?

Parent (me) gives a couple of little spoonfuls of ice cream to 5 month old (my DS). I'm asking if people think I was being unreasonable, not whether or not my friends comment was unreasonable.

@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.

Wow!

I think it's no big deal at all to give a 5 month old a bit of ice cream - but agree with PP that I'd probably steer clear of the machine stuff.

Well its not ideal but hardly the end of the world.

No-one died!

@Serpenta

My 90th centipede baby

Ooof. You must be kept busy looking after 90 centipede babies.

😂 all those legs!