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.

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they will put all sorts in their mouths

sharing food with babies is one of best ways to encourage them to eat. Obviously processed sugar isn’t ideal but I really wouldn’t stress. A friend was over the other day with her 7 month old and let her eat cake, not the icing and we laughed at how much her face lit up and how we’d never have done this with PFB, but a wee bit sugar isn’t going to harm them

1st baby I see. 😂

My sister and I regularly ate cat dry food for their bowl. We survived.

Do unfollow the accounts that you find anxiety inducing. Life became easier once I deleted Insta!

Not only are you unreasonable to be annoyed - you're showing a disturbing level of fanaticism.

I vividly remember whenever I went to a certain friends place we would sneak to the garage and eat all the dogs choc drops ( I assume they were cacao mixed with god knows what).
Sorry to be a bore but please do not let your child eat a snail or slug. A teenager close to where I lived ate one as a dare and caught the bacteria that some can carry.( rat lung disease) He lived for about 3 more years, heavily brain damaged. 99.9% of the time it would be fine but he was very unlucky. I just thought I'd let people know, as it's so rare that it doesn't seem to be well known.

My DD used to eat the dirt out of my planters. She's 40 now.

Don’t worry OP, it’s natural to feel concerned when you are doing everything you can night and day to protect a little one, and especially if you have PPA or similar things will sometimes be even harder. You’re doing a great job.

Oh Jesus. It’s your first child isn’t it.

I am all for the world ending its relationship with processed foods - would happily see the back of the forever - however, get a grip.

For goodness sake what is wrong with a 6 month old baby eating a bit of cinnamon bun, it's not going to hurt her, she isn't gorging on them.

Some of these posts are harsh! I mean, the OP says she has PPA and I completely understand the wanting to control food when baby is very little.

OP, it's ok. My first arrggh moment was went I gave my daughter a spoonful of my food which had shellfish in... everything was fine. DD was fine.

I think it's more damaging to obsess over sugar and label good and bad foods than it is to let your child have some occasionally. As she gets older you can't stop her having food like cake etc at parties etc. those who have had no exposure to sugar etc (my DD included) were stuffing their face their face at the first opportunity they had to have something 'sweet'. Ie. Low sugar cake. That was a wake up call for me to relax a little. Ill let her taste whatever I'm eating (soup which is probably too salty), yogurt (with a touch of maple syrup). She enjoys it, it's nice to see her happy. I'm also hoping that desensitizes her a bit.

My point: tiny tastes here and there are probably better than nothing at all. Unless you want a child that eats so many sweets on Halloween that they throw up, or chocolate at Easter, or birthday cake.

Ps. I started a list of 'babies first foods'. I stopped adding to it at about 10 foods because she was just having everything. Just make sure to introduce the allergens separately. ☺️

That's good, all's well that ends well.

I am very, very sorry to read that you have PPA. That must be a real blow. You are doing well to be communicating on here.

At the end of the mother and baby yoga course I did, DD1 was about four months old. While I was listening to the teacher talk about next term DD1 ate the paper slip she had just given out.

In what way would it negatively affect them? What would they have a reaction to? In a cinnamon bun?

I’d understand if it was raw honey or something, but it’s a cinnamon bun. Mine ate all sorts at that age. Older ones would ‘sneak’ them McDonald's fries, chocolate and so forth if they had them as a treat thinking they were being a nice brother/sister. Never hurt anybody and made for good sibling relations😁.

Ah this is a perfect PFB moment!
You will look back on this in a few years and have a good laugh. @August24Mama

If the child is okay, that's fine.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 This made me genuinely chuckle!

DD’s first food age 5 months was a fistful of icing off a piece of carrot cake. She was fast and rammed most of her fist in her mouth before we could blink.

I genuinely love it when someone who has been a bit of a div just totally accepts the feedback and owns it. It takes a big person to admit they got it wrong.

Fair play to you OP. I think most of us have had moments of madness with our babies and got our knickers in a twist about something inconsequential. I hope your PPA improves but don’t beat yourself up over this.

You had a mad moment but you’re over it now. No harm done. Onwards and upwards to the next loony thing your baby inevitably does! 😂❤️

Good for you OP it's easier all round

When my son was a baby & up until he was two-ish I purposely wouldn't give him anything sweet because my thoughts were "what he doesn't know he can't miss"

That said my auntie & his nana minded him for me when I went back to work & I sure as hell wasn't going to police what they did (within reason) he greeted me one day when I was picking him up with a sausage in his hand so you kind of have to laugh & just accept you can't control everything 😆

Yes YABU and you know it otherwise you wouldn’t have asked.

If you have PND, please focus on getting this sorted. Take the pills, so the therapy and face the trauma.

@2021x Op @August24Mama has already good humourly accepted it was an over reaction... jesus wept give her a break 🙄

As soon as mine started walking I had to ve on high alert: insects, cigarette butts, spitted chewing gum- all went into his mouth. He just bent down and put it in. I had to struggle to open his mouth to get it out. I put a dummy into his mouth if we were outside walking on a pavement because he was so fast. I bet you can imagine what people said about that... turned out he was autistic so that explained it...

Friend of mine: first baby’s first foods: steamed veg, Greek yog, etc. second baby’s first food: churros

YABU, baby will be fine. What do you think will happen? Are you waiting for some kind of reaction from baby?

Don’t panic OP. When I read your post I thought cinnamon was now deemed poisonous to under-threes and I’d missed the memo!

Take comfort in the fact your DC grabbed an item of food. When my DD was around the same age she rolled across the floor while I was (briefly) in the next room putting the kettle on, and I found her behind the floor-length curtain eating a woodlouse. That wasn’t on my ‘allowed’ food list either but at least it could -hopefully - be classed as organic.

I hope you can get help for your anxiety - there are many challenging years ahead which are best met with a level head and a robust sense of humour.