Sil giving my baby tea

[abi9396]

My baby is 6 months in 2 weeks. He stayed the night and mil and sil house last night. He came back with tea stains over his bib and sock. My eldest son then told me that sil had given him some of her tea to drink. Mil, sil and my partner are all denying this and claims the baby spilled her tea on accident and that’s how it’s over his bib and sock. If they did can this be harmful at his age I am worried?

Yep but we know better so we do better, that's how science works, 1 day, if I have grandchildren and we've learnt more I hope I'm able to put my ego aside and say, great, we know a better way now, rather than cling to the 'it never did mine any harm' nonsense mentality

With all due respect to everyone merrily going on about milky tea for babies , this baby isn’t even 6 months old yet, surely a bit of puréed carrot or carrot sticks depending how you wean is better than tea. I’ll hold my hands up I hate the stuff (strong black coffee always !) and have judged people giving their kids tea in baby bottles but seems to be less of a thing now. Oh and I’m Northern Irish and it’s not really a thing as much as all these lot lol’ing make out

No one in all the “lol what’s the problem, I give my two-week-old a Starbucks” has yet explained WHY in the ever-loving fuck you’d give a baby tea? And in this case, someone else’s baby! To what end? To dunk the Hobnob they shouldn’t be having into? Are they doing some plumbing in your house?

I wouldn't leave my child with people who lied to me.

I was thinking that

my entire family and my friends family, my wife's family too! were practically raised on a 'boc boc of tea'. Had milky tea from infancy. You realise there are cultures who's babies drink tea from a very very young age as babies and this country has the largest population on the planet so they must be doing something right.

Yes, because it can be dangerous for all babies. That absolutely is true, whether FF or BF.

For BF babies it is always dangerous, and for FF you have to tread very, very carefully. There are only certain, rare circumstances you do it under.

HCPs are very rarely up to date on their information.

Breastmilk is perfectly designed for your baby, and it changes composition depending on lots of factors, from how baby is feeling (if they’re ill), to their temperature etc.

Formula obviously doesn’t do that.

You can buy baby food from 4 months +, but that is only because legislation has not been updated to match current research and evidence.

Early weaning (before 6 months) can cause digestive issues like IBS and Crohn’s; that’s why they’re so prevalent now, because babies guts are not physically ready for food at that age.

My dad asked me when DS1 was about 6 months old if he enjoyed a bottle of tea yet! It was a very real thing (and I'll be honest it still is where I live! A bottle of tea 🙈).

Id be annoyed too op!

i think calling it a boc boc might actually be worse than the tea 😬

My earliest childhood memories involve sitting next to my granny on the couch and sipping milky tea off a saucer whilst watching ‘watch with mother’. My heart still feels the love of her and those precious times together.

Sorry, before the saucer it woukd be a bottle of sugarless tea and till today, I’m 65, I don’t have sugar in tea or coffee.

Me too, and in my 40's.

My baby drinks breast milk. Nothing else. My first child drank nothing but breast milk at that age, my second baby drinks nothing but breast milk. Introducing other drinks is my decision, not the decision of a mil or sil. I would be furious, both the tea and the milk would not be ok with me.

Except their bottles are made up using water so they’re actually drinking lots of it every day.

Water mixed with formula is milk, not water. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Yes it’s milk, but it’s clearly also majority water 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️.

So is a cucumber, but I wouldn’t give one to a baby under six months either. Nor would I expect to be served a cucumber when I’d asked for water, or vice versa. Giving a baby formula is very different to giving them water.

@bussteward yep boc boc of tea is pretty chavvy

Aye right.

Listen you're showing a massive lack of understanding of the most basic biology. Formula is mostly water as is breastmilk and some fruit and veg. However it's the proportion of nutrients to water that is important hence why the instructions to make up formula are so exacting. Are you really this lacking in basic understanding or bein obtuse?