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My baby accidentally drank tea

127 replies

stressedmum22 · 24/04/2022 11:28

I'm quite an anxious mum in general so please be as kind as possible, as I do think I'm probably worrying for nothing here.

My little one (who recently turned 1yo) picked up a lukewarm cup of tea from where I'd stupidly left it on the living room floor. I had nipped to the kitchen for something and came back to her drinking it (well mostly pouring it all down herself 🙈). I can't remember how much was in it.

Is tea / caffeine harmful to babies??

OP posts:
Kat1953 · 24/04/2022 15:34

Apparently I once downed most of a glass of a wine at a similar age before my parents could reach me. I slept a lot afterwards. I barely drink as an adult and I do it still makes me sleepy 😆

Apparently, gripe water contained alcohol until the late 80s too.

I hope your baby enjoyed their first cuppa, op :) Proper right of passage!

MathereaganW · 24/04/2022 15:38

No tea is great

SnowRoses · 24/04/2022 15:40

She will be fine. 80’s babies had tea in bottles all the time 😂

quietnightmare · 24/04/2022 15:42

Did she like it ?

BonjourCrisette · 24/04/2022 15:43

I drank weak milky tea and coffee at this age every day, and I am now 53 so I think your baby will be fine!

Dramaticpenguin · 24/04/2022 15:51

In the 80s our neighbors kids always had tea in a bottle!

PlainJaneEyre · 24/04/2022 15:57

My children grew upon tea and "dippy biscuits" since babies 😂

DomesticatedZombie · 24/04/2022 15:57

OP, I'm sorry but that's really very sweet. Your baby will be totally fine.

DomesticatedZombie · 24/04/2022 15:57

Kat1953 · 24/04/2022 15:34

Apparently I once downed most of a glass of a wine at a similar age before my parents could reach me. I slept a lot afterwards. I barely drink as an adult and I do it still makes me sleepy 😆

Apparently, gripe water contained alcohol until the late 80s too.

I hope your baby enjoyed their first cuppa, op :) Proper right of passage!

That is why gripe water was BLOODY DELICIOUS.

lemmein · 24/04/2022 16:02

My friends little girl used to take her own cup to grandmas and hand it to her as she walked in so she could make her a cup of tea - she was about 1 then, she's still alive 😁

Hrpuffnstuff1 · 24/04/2022 16:13

Ours used to have tea in their beakers.🤣🤣
It was funny to watch.

Stravaig · 24/04/2022 16:15

If it makes you feel better you OP, I was apparently smashed on alcohol twice as a wee one. Once as a fussy baby, refusing all foods, until a desperate parent tried some leftover trifle. Super-boozy sherry trifle. Oops. Then again as a toddler, when I wandered the room, drinking the dregs of everyone's afternoon cocktail glasses. By the time my folks finished seeing their guests out I was apparently giggling like mad, falling over, getting up, then doing it all again. A long sleep and I was all better.

A wee sup of caffeine in tea will be absolutely fine. I expect my parents felt as you do though!

iRun2eatCake · 24/04/2022 16:17

TigerLilyTail · 24/04/2022 11:29

It's absolutely fine. In some cultures, they actually give tea to babies in bottles.

My DM gave me a tea bottle

BlackeyedSusan · 24/04/2022 16:24

and I can add that red wax crayons are fine too.

and is nappy cream as both me their dad consumed nappy turned out fine... oh no, hang on...

perhaps not the nappy cream...

nappy cream is a bugger to get out of carpets though...

BlackeyedSusan · 24/04/2022 16:27

Do not leave them alone with paint to go to the loo...

It does not quite wash off and they look like they have been beaten black and blue for a week with an array of fresh (blue paint) and fading bruises (green and yellow paint) , and slaps. (red paint) (was really glad I took a photo of that before I bathed her)

Fandangofran · 24/04/2022 16:28

I was born in the 80's and my mum used to give me bottles of luke warm tea every day. Apparently it was a very common thing then. I never came to any harm from it and I never heard of anyone else being harmed either.

BlackeyedSusan · 24/04/2022 16:29

I used to pretend to be ill to get gripe water... with alcohol.

Ps if you have not dyed your baby blue, nor immaced your baby you are doing better than certain other posters...

Stravaig · 24/04/2022 16:43

@Kat1953 Same here, rarely drink and it makes me sleepy quickly!

Original poster
stressedmum22 · 24/04/2022 18:26

SnowRoses · 24/04/2022 15:40

She will be fine. 80’s babies had tea in bottles all the time 😂

Oh really? I'm an 80s baby. I probably did too, I have no idea though!

OP posts:
JudgeJ · 25/04/2022 12:13

Stravaig · 24/04/2022 16:15

If it makes you feel better you OP, I was apparently smashed on alcohol twice as a wee one. Once as a fussy baby, refusing all foods, until a desperate parent tried some leftover trifle. Super-boozy sherry trifle. Oops. Then again as a toddler, when I wandered the room, drinking the dregs of everyone's afternoon cocktail glasses. By the time my folks finished seeing their guests out I was apparently giggling like mad, falling over, getting up, then doing it all again. A long sleep and I was all better.

A wee sup of caffeine in tea will be absolutely fine. I expect my parents felt as you do though!

Reminds me of a boozy afternoon drinking sangria with friends, their children playing but eventually looking a bit wobbly. On questioning they said they been eating the strawberries etc. in the kitchen, they come from the jugs of sangria, I was saving them to have over ice cream for pudding later!

starfishmummy · 25/04/2022 12:18

I've seen lots of kids that age drinking tea, it used to be pretty normal years ago. On

I'm not sure what age I started but Mum always used to say that if we were visiting anyone and they asked if I'd like a squash I used to say I'd rather have a cuppa!!!

FirewomanSam · 25/04/2022 12:22

Apparently I once downed most of a glass of a wine at a similar age before my parents could reach me. I slept a lot afterwards. I barely drink as an adult and I do it still makes me sleepy 😆

@Kat1953 I apparently did the same thing. Parents rushed me to A&E and the doctor just shrugged and said ‘she might have a headache in the morning’.

Actually, from the way they tell the story I think it’s more likely they had drunk it themselves, turned their backs on me for a second and then couldn’t remember whether or not the empty glass had had wine in it or not, which makes it even funnier. But either way, the doctor apparently wasn’t at all concerned .

Princetopple · 25/04/2022 13:15

Honestly, your baby will be fine. And you'll always remember to keep your tea out of the way now.

Where I live, it's still pretty common to see babies and toddlers drinking tea from a bottle! And they all seem fine and healthy.

10HailMarys · 25/04/2022 14:44

In my family, babies drink tea pretty much as soon as they can sit up unaided. I was having tea in a bottle at your daughter's age! We're from a working class London background and it's just what we do 😆I was highly amused by the look on my very middle-class friend's face when she saw a picture of my toddler nephew and I both enjoying a cuppa while we were engrossed in the story of Hairy MacLairy.

Ohhelpmetoo · 25/04/2022 18:07

When I was a child in the fifties and also when my own children were young it was common to see a child with a bottle of tea .
your baby will be fine . Honestly.

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