DH accidentally let baby eat some cinnamon bun?

[August24Mama]

AIBU to be annoyed by this... DH had my 6mo and he was eating a cinnamon bun. He said baby grabbed it (she's very fast with her hands) and brought it to her mouth. He immediately stopped her but not before he said she ate a tiny amount of it. Baby is acting fine and no reactions or anything but I'm still annoyed? I'm strict with what she eats don't want her eating processed foods, and obviously no added sugars until 2. She's only had a handful of freshly made fruits and veggies since starting solids at 6 months, I guess now we can add cinnamon bun to the list.

AIBU to be annoyed when it was an accident? I didn't go mad at him or anything but it's been nagging at me since it happened.

I think we have all been there as first time parents panicking over things like this. I remember losing my mind when I couldn’t remember if I had sterilised my babies bottles or not in the haze of tiredness.

i started worrying less when I took my son to soft play for the first time and he ate some discarded raisins from the floor whilst I was looking elsewhere for a nano second!

all will be well, everyday is a new day with little ones x

If it was my cinnamon bun that had been pinched I would have been furious, she would have been on bread and water for a week!

@August24Mama

You must laugh together like it really doesn't matter. Because it doesn't! My adult DCs would probably have been fed a cinammon bun back when mine were that age.

And to put it in perspective, my DC1 ate a big spider at 6 months old. I am not joking, I thought... what is that piece of cotton coming out of her mouth. It was a spiders leg!

Not having a go at you OP, but i've witnessed this too with two friends of DD. Their diets (and lives) were so strictly controlled that when they came to my home, where my children have a very healthy balanced attitude to food, these kids went wild. I can trust my kids to have balanced snacks, when they're hungry, but these kids just saw unlimited access to the treats and ate so much they were sick. They weren't babies either, these were nine year olds, I didn't expect I would have to be monitoring their every movement in the other room, lesson learnt!

Anyway, you know you need to have more help with your anxiety, which is good. i think in reality kids need far less strictly controlled lives than all the parenting gurus would have you believe. If you model healthy behaviours and give firm but fair boundaries, with mature explanations, kids turn out fine. Anything extreme is a bad idea

You are massively overeacting or maybe this is a wind up?

Or maybe the problem is with you.

Ah, don’t be too hard on yourself. We’ve all had these moments of madness. I was still sterilising at 10 months. DC was eating worms out of the garden yet I was obsessed with the cutlery!

ignore all the horrible comments, I guarantee most of the posters have an equally embarrassing PFB moment.

This comment has put me right in the mood for a Greggs apple turnover mmmmm.....

I am not the one making a huge fuss about very little.

DS‘ first ever food was chocolate ice cream. We had been planning to introduce solids within the next couple of weeks. However, DH had him in a sling while eating/holding a chocolate ice cream cone and talking to a friend. Suddenly, most of the generous scoop of ice cream was gone and DS was beaming all over his brown, sticky face.

He was fine. Still adores good, Italian ice-cream.

Read your thread yesterday but saw it was still trending so just thought I'd pop in to see if it had escalated any more and baby was now running around the streets like a gangster or had developed a taste for crack or something.

Your baby is putting way worse things in their mouths every time they put their hands in their mouths. This is literally how they get an immune system. My midwife said as soon as they could put their hands in their mouth sterilizing bottles etc was pointless. Seems logical.

one day when my first was 8 months and crawling my then husband popped in from work, we were stood in the hallway talking i looked down and the baby was chewing his laces, he worked on aircraft so were covered in oil, hydraulic fluid and aircraft fuel. No side effects, no anxiety, no hospital visit, she lived.

I've read all your updates but do please do try not to worry. Cinamon bun at 6 months is fine! I would have probably given baby a little piece on purpose. My DS was on my knee at 4 months and leaned forward and took a huge bite of my scone with cream and jam (accidentally!). He was totally fine.

See this is the argument that convinced me to be a bit more relaxed with sugar and sweet treats once mine was over 12 months. I had a good friend with a baby of a similar age, who never allowed her to touch the slightest speck of processed sugar, not allowed the biscuit all the other kids got at playgroup, no chocolate advent calendars at Christmas, no easter eggs, no ice creams at the seaside. I remember when she'd be saying no to birthday cake at parties and offering cherry tomatoes instead and I was feeling smug like 'just you wait till they're older, my kid is going to be so well balanced and yours will be obsessed'.

Except guess what, my kid is fucking obsessed with sugar, would sell her grandmother for a kinder bueno and doesn't seem to have picked up any of this promised balance and moderation she was supposed to be learning. Friend's child will still turn down chocolate/ biscuits, doesn't like them, whilst my child helpfully offers to eat them for her.

I do think that it's a comforting story we tell ourselves and I wish I'd been a bit stricter for a bit longer.

@August24Mama I have definitely been there. I was going to wait till 6 months on the dot, and had a careful plan of which foods I was going to feed and in what order. A week before DD turned 6 months she swiped a piece of thickly-lurpaked toast out of my sister's hand and stuffed it in her mouth. I was honestly horrified, I remember squeaking in dismay at my sister 'it's SALTED butter!!!!!' whilst my sister just laughed. And I do laugh about it now. But it's ok that you really care about how you're weaning and want to get it right. We all have our PFB moments.

It's a gateway bun for a full on Greggs habit. {Other bakeries are available}.

A baby will eat a lot worse than that when they become mobile.

Toddler DD ate a whole bag of goat food at Odd's Farm. 🐐

@August24Mama Sugar {actual sugar, not sweeteners} is fine.
I was forbidden sugar by adoptive mum, and sugar became a total passion...I became obsessed with sweets and sugary stuff.

If I wanted to make a sugar addicted child, I'd ''ban'' sugar , so it had a special currency to it.

My son was allowed sugar - completely unrestricted, and his teeth and body size {lean} were perfect. {He's an adult now}

He hasn't got a sweet tooth at all, sugar has no ''specialness'' to it.

A cinnamon bun, or quality ice cream is fine.

Or maybe you haven't read the OP's posts?

Well done, @August24Mama .
I was very worried about DS in other ways as a baby- I didn't want to leave him with anyone- I wanted him within my line of sight at all times. {Probably instinctive} when they are so very young.

I recall toddler DD1 happily licking the nose/mouth of my cousin's dog. She then went on to become a total Sugar Fiend. But she still went on to play two sports at County Level.

Honestly it really, really doesn't matter what they eat so long as most of their diet is healthy.

Cinnamon buns are lush. Congratulations on raising a child with great taste.

Mine ate the blueberries he found under the fridge the other day 🤣 oh and my baby girl ate crackers I'd just chucked in the bin when I dared to nip for a wee. Both still alive

It’s called humour and she didn’t say that she had an anxiety disorder on her original post. Still a massive overreaction which many many many other people have said.

Sorry I don’t agree. We haven’t all been there for things like this and panicked but yea we all worry as parents. I would suggest this post is on the higher end of worrying over nothing than other things.