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.

Get a grip. Also what are you going to do if your baby is fussy? That will throw out all your ideologies of what you expect her to eat for the next few years.

Op baby be ok and you've a story now to share ...every single parent has a similar story, babies will grab and eat strange things in 1 second!

Can people please read all the op’s posts?!

She accepted very early on that she was being unreasonable and has since been able to have a laugh at herself.

I completely understand your feelings, OP.
Looking back I had what could be termed PPA too though, perhaps controversially, I think those feelings are within the range of normal especially for a first time mum. As long as it's not actually ruling your life you don't need to be medicalised for it and are entitled to be a bit primal and irrational after creating brand new life!

HOWEVER this is totally, absolutely, 100% fine and it sounds like you've managed to reframe it as a lovely, cheeky incident courtesy of your curious, joyful baby - which is what it is!

Good luck. If I'm anything to go by you'll have several more mad, worried moments before your child is older and need to be gently talked down and reassured by people not in the thick of high-alert, protective hormones 😁!

To be fair, we started weaning one of my children at the 4 month mark not so long ago when we found her basically lunging face-first at available food with a manic look in her eye 😂. She was always an incredibly hungry baby for milk before that anyway, so it was all in-keeping. When we gave her her first solids at 4 months she lunged for the spoon repeatedly and giggled like a loon so I'm pretty happy with our decision for that one!

One of mine ate a ladybird and a handful of sand. The other ate leaves and soil just because. Both still alive! Try not to worry yourself so much ❤️

Bless you op. Firstborn by any chance? I was extremely anxious when dd was born and I know exactly where you are.

I won't tell you to relax, or that it's just an overreaction as you've posted that yourself.

But I will tell you to be kind to yourself and know that you are doing fine.

It is never too early to start if you want to bring up a previous eater!

Hi OP - I don’t know if you’re still reading the thread - I have only read all of your posts!

Trust me when I say that most of us have been there with our PFBs! You’re not alone! But then we nearly all cave in to pizza and chicken nuggets at some point! You will be fine and your baby will be fine and fair play for taking the responses on the chin.

I'm sorry that it gave you such a worry. Hope you're feeling better now and also that the baby enjoyed their first lick of bun. It's a marathon not a sprint, so try to pace the worrying. You've got many years to go.

Lol apparently I ate a worm as a baby

Hahahaha.

When it's your second child they'll be eating crisps they found on the floor at Costa and you'll be like, "Oh well, it'll be good for his/her immune system I guess!"

I remember being SO upset when my PFB grabbed a banana from my hand and started eating it - he was six months old and I was waiting for him to show interest in solid food before I weaned him. Well he showed a lot of interest in that banana! Oddly enough, he hates bananas now.

By the time it came to baby number 5, she was given anything and everything by any child wandering past. She tried to suck the dog once. She's now 28 and incredibly healthy, so I really wouldn't worry too much, OP.

Wow, and I thought this was a safe space for mothers (including those with MHPs) to seek empathy, reassurance and advice. OP is struggling with anxiety. If you’ve nothing kind to say, maybe don’t say anything at all?

It will have exposed her to new flavour which is what you want at that age

I agree, some really horrible sneery posts on here and most of them probably would have felt similar with their PFB! We all told ourselves they would only eat organic unprocessed foods, never watch a minute of TV or drink high sugar drinks and then find ourselves 6 years later with them eating pizza and drinking fruit shoots whilst watching absolute shite on the TV 😂

That’s because you’re incapable of reading more than one post. If you’d read all the OP’s posts you wouldn’t be making an idiot of yourself right now.

Couple of things

You're laughing about it now and thats a good thing, it will be good for you to build on that with other anxieties that you have and that will be part of the recovery and healing around the anxiety

Secondly I would think really carefully about your assumption that your husband knows nothing about how you fell about bungate, becuase the dynamic between you will be full of unsaid things and tensions and you will feel that because you didnt say anything it wont have affected him. He very likely picked up on the implication that he did something wrong This is important becuase you posted 'my baby' and then you said you could have worded it differently but its clear your first instinct is that its your baby, not his

That has an impact on making your anxiety worse becuase you feel solely and wholly responsible for her outside of anyone else, thats a huge pressure on you but equally he will feel excluded if thats how your general view is of your status with each other

Have a think about those things and hopefully you're getting proper support with the anxiety so that someone can help you unpick those

I really do think @mnhq need to lock down threads like this, because all that’s going to happen is pages of idiots posting sneery ignorant comments.

My Dbro once ate a woodlouse - nice and crunchy!

Seriously?

And worms! Don’t forget worms…

One of mine ate handfuls of wet cat food (Felix as good as it looks) out the cat's bowl whilst the cat sat next to her looking sad. She's vegan now 🤣

Maybe parenting or mental health forums. Not AIBU

Reminds me of when I went to the pub with my toddler. We had been for a walk and stopped for a drink and a packet of crisps. Our daughter was toddling around the table but we realised that she had been hoovering up some of the dropped crisps on the floor… the carpet that was about 1000 years old and probably had undiscovered species of bacteria in it! 🤮

anyway she has the constitution of an ox so didn’t get ill… that or it gave her superpowers. Not sure which yet.

OP. It is very easy to worry yourself ragged at 6 months over every single thing. Everyone does it over something. Now when they turn 16 and eat and drink all manner of awful foods you wonder what on earth you were worrying about!