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.

@Serpenta

do people really make breast milk ice lollies?

Is that a thing I've missed?

well...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12569011

The important question is - did baby enjoy it?

I voted YANBU, But I do know of a woman who bought a 2 litre tub of the cheapest crap ice cream available to feed to her baby "because he doesn't like his pureed food, but he loves this".

Actually the best age to wean is hotly debated and people don't necessarily have to wait until 6 months, that is the guidelines in the UK. Signs of readiness are important. Also there's research to say that 4 months is best in terms of allergies etc. So I'd say it's entirely up to you, a few teaspoons if theyre already having other bits of food is fine. And they have no teeth to rot either, bonus! 😂

SlateCoaster

You are the one starting the thread and asking! I am replying.
Why do you bother asking if you don't want to hear what people think?

Giving a McD. to a baby, no, I am not sorry and yes I do judge.

LOL.

Babies have accidentally eaten or deliberately been fed FAR worse than a tiny amount of McFlurry and survived in peak health.

Obviously no sensible person would include such stuff as a regular or substantial component of a baby's diet, but it is such First World privilege to obsess about the tiniest details of a few dabs of ice cream.

Joke aside, the comments "my kid was fed all kind of junk food when he was little and is now a magnificent fit and healthy adult" are unhelpful and disingenuous.

We do have an obesity problem in this country, kids ARE fed far too much junk food and sugar, more than ever.

Normalising McDo from 5 months is doing no favour to anyone at all.

It's "only" a pack of crips, it's "only" a can of coke, it's "only" cookies, it's not crack cocaine, bladibla.
Looking at the state of this country, it's just as bad, and it starts somewhere.

@fashionablefennel

SlateCoaster

You are the one starting the thread and asking! I am replying.
Why do you bother asking if you don't want to hear what people think?

Giving a McD. to a baby, no, I am not sorry and yes I do judge.

It wasn't 'A McD' - the friend said ' you gave A McFlurry to a baby' - the OP gave him a 'few dabs on a teaspoon', not a full tubful.

@TakeYourFinalPosition yes, it's true. I had immunosuppressive treatment. And was told not to eat soft serve ice cream like Mr Whippy and McFlurried due to the risk of listeria.

Oh my word, @fashionablefennel, £14 for a serving of breast milk ice-cream!

'Er, just a Cornetto for me thanks!'

My 4 month old will be enjoying 2 or 3 mouthfuls of ice cream when we're in Cornwall next week - I doubt it'll scar him for life.

@fashionablefennel but there's a difference to a bit of junk as part of a healthy diet to junk food 24/7

If it wasn’t your baby what’s it got to do with you?

If it was a tiny bit I think it's fine. I wouldnt really stress. It's obviously not a daily thing

@sowhatsnext you can read the ops updates by clicking see all on original post. It was her baby

It's a bit too young to be eating that.

Looking at the ingredients of McFlurry versus Formula Milk - they are actually pretty much the same! I wouldn't worry about a "taste" of anything at that age. Petite Filous used to be pretty standard early food for babies.

It's completely unnecessary to give a 5 month old mcflurry. I just don't understand why you'd do it full stop.

I couldn't get worked up over this.

I gave my baby a spoon of Baileys icecream at about 4 months (back when you could start weaning them at that age - and lots of people were giving rusks in bottles from 6 weeks ) , he absolutely loved it, sucked the spoon for a few mins and then held onto it like grim death in the hope of getting some more

No short or long term ill effects.

BAILEYS ICE-CREAM?

You clearly want your baby to be an alcoholic sugar muncher!

@Ponoka7 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.

No one can make you feel shite except you. You fed your baby, and presumably she/he is fine as are the millions of babies fed formula all over the world everyday.

@ShinyGreenElephant

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

Total bullshit. The machines have a four hour clean and sanitize cycle that runs every night. The reason they always seem broken is because only one specific company is allowed to repair them and it's a nightmare to get an engineer out.

Too young for food let alone so much sugar, but the parents decision

@TakeYourFinalPosition

The problem isn’t the ice cream ingredients, the milk has been pasteurised. The problem is whether the machine used in Mr Whippy/soft serve has been cleaned. If not, it can harbour harmful bacteria. Apparently enough vendors fall below hygiene standards for the risk to have been mentioned by doctors in various medical journals/pregnancy websites. Personally I wouldn’t take the risk, either during pregnancy or while the child is very young.