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Baby on bus eating pizza!

229 replies

Netcurtainnelly · 11/01/2026 21:38

Would you leave your baby in pushchair eating pizza?

Baby was definitely not walking yet and eating a piece of pizza on their own, lay back abit not even upright in the pushchair!😱

AIBU to think the base of a pizza isn't suitable for a baby, let alone eating without someone really watching over them.😕
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FurForksSake · 11/01/2026 22:53

@littleorangefox if they can grasp the hot-dog stuffed crust pizza ok, then they have the dexterity for a can. Let’s not infantise babies, it doesn’t help them at all.

User0311 · 11/01/2026 22:53

Is this for real? Not your child not your business

Watchoutfortheslowaraf · 11/01/2026 22:54

Netcurtainnelly · 11/01/2026 22:16

Heres the answer.

Generally no — at least not normal pizza.

  • Pizza is usually too salty
  • Often hard or chewy (choking risk)
  • Cheese and tomato sauce can upset sensitive tummies
  • 6 -12 months.

Generally no to what?

Homemade pizza isn’t too salty

chewy foods are fine for babies over 6 months

any food can upset sensitive tummies. Cheese and tomatoes are healthy foods, fine for most babies

6-12 months is bay led weaning age

The only concern I’d have is that baby was reclined and should be sitting upright. It’s odd to me you’ve started such a judgy thread

KateDelRick · 11/01/2026 22:56

Netcurtainnelly · 11/01/2026 22:16

Heres the answer.

Generally no — at least not normal pizza.

  • Pizza is usually too salty
  • Often hard or chewy (choking risk)
  • Cheese and tomato sauce can upset sensitive tummies
  • 6 -12 months.

I think our answers are far better.

Laughingmole · 11/01/2026 22:56

The baby on the bus just eats their pizza, eats their pizza, eats their pizza.
The baby on the bus just eats their pizza all day long.

FurForksSake · 11/01/2026 22:57

@KateDelRick should have left that and not edited it. Freudian judgemental slip, perhaps? 🤔 🤣

IncessantNameChanger · 11/01/2026 22:57

I'd not let my baby eat anything with the tomatoes + oil combo unless they was stripped down to a nappy. That's a stain that never comes out......

There is so much to judge others on. After having a child with severe SEN and being berated by Total strangers in the street on ds behaviour when aged 2-5. I have learnt it's deeply unpleasant and some of the comments stay with me ten years later. Also none of that supremely arrogant advice would have worked. If I had done it.

IDK. It's not good if they was under 6 months that's for sure. But if it's one rare treat at say 9 months it's not going meet socail services threshold. Every one of my baby fell off the bed before I realised they could roll over. Two of them escaped the garden. I think most of us have been a bit shit and dropping the parent of the year award once. They was all weaned on organic veg I sure did cock a lot things up. It's also hard to judge a baby's age. Lots of people think dd11 is a 7 year old boy.

KateDelRick · 11/01/2026 22:57

FurForksSake · 11/01/2026 22:57

@KateDelRick should have left that and not edited it. Freudian judgemental slip, perhaps? 🤔 🤣

😂😂true!

littleorangefox · 11/01/2026 22:57

FurForksSake · 11/01/2026 22:53

@littleorangefox if they can grasp the hot-dog stuffed crust pizza ok, then they have the dexterity for a can. Let’s not infantise babies, it doesn’t help them at all.

My bad. We should support baby led weaning and all that jazz of course. Start them young. They'll never learn otherwise.

FOJN · 11/01/2026 22:57

Goingootforawalk · 11/01/2026 22:10

Outrageous suggestions - hope you’re both joking.

…Irn Bru is the only correct option. That was the drink of choice for babies growing up in my neighbourhood.

Surely Irn Bru is only the correct pairing when the pizza is deep fried?

TakeTheCuntingQuichePatricia · 11/01/2026 22:58

How do you know the baby wasn't walking? Obviously it wasn't walking at that exact moment.
And why does that even matter? Is there a rule that you can only eat pizza if you can walk? My disabled cousin will be really upset to hear that.

MyOtherProfile · 11/01/2026 22:59

Netcurtainnelly · 11/01/2026 22:16

Heres the answer.

Generally no — at least not normal pizza.

  • Pizza is usually too salty
  • Often hard or chewy (choking risk)
  • Cheese and tomato sauce can upset sensitive tummies
  • 6 -12 months.

Interesting. We did baby led weaning and pizza was something I would make for the family so our under 1 year old could have the same as us. I made it so I knew it didn't have salt in it. It was basically bread with some tomato based sauce, veg and cheese. An excellent meal for a little one.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 11/01/2026 22:59

FionnulaTheCooler · 11/01/2026 21:46

Shocking. Everyone knows a Greggs sausage roll is the best way to keep your child quiet on the bus.

No, no, no. A warm Greggs' sausage roll is for the school playground or in the queue for the post office on child benefit day.

The bus is for screeching for the iPad.

FurForksSake · 11/01/2026 23:00

@littleorangefox there was no mollycoddling in my day. My two could light a fag off the gas hob, pour a lambrini and fetch my pills before they could talk.

Dontlletmedownbruce · 11/01/2026 23:02

What do you mean they weren't being supervised? Someone put a baby on a bus and waved them off? Or the parent was 2 feet away facing the other way but close enough to intervene within 1 second if the child started to choke. Either way the baby would be fine, there were probably some nosy judgmental people watching carefully too.

Hedgehogforshort · 11/01/2026 23:03

Baby led weaning what is that? Does one shape the food presented like a nipple?

or a bottle teet?

i suppose it depends on the boulevard one lives on.

PandoraSocks · 11/01/2026 23:03

NormasArse · 11/01/2026 22:50

I don’t think Buckfast has sweeteners.

😅

Delphiniumandlupins · 11/01/2026 23:03

FOJN · 11/01/2026 22:57

Surely Irn Bru is only the correct pairing when the pizza is deep fried?

I never fed mine a Pizza Crunch until they were 10 months at least.

NotAnotherOneNC · 11/01/2026 23:04

There is a huge temptation to ask AI to generate images based on this scenario (and the epic follow up comments).

DustlandFairytaleBeginning · 11/01/2026 23:04

@Netcurtainnelly

Pizza was one of the staple recipes they made in our toddler cooking class, along with fruity flapjack and fruit salad and pitta bread sandwiches etc. This pizza was definitely on the healthier side. Is it possible you might have seen something on their way home from something like that?

user1492757084 · 11/01/2026 23:05

There clearly was someone watching over the baby; you.
So no worries.

Queenoftartts · 11/01/2026 23:06

x2boys · 11/01/2026 21:48

Well my uncle apparently let my cousin chomp on a pork pie at a similar age, my mum always used to recount this at family get together, s my cousin is now 55 and very healthy and his Dad was a GP

Edited

I stole a pork pie 😄😂off my mum's friend. I was coming up to my first birthday.

Lostworlds · 11/01/2026 23:12

My youngest is almost 2 but if you were to look at them you would assume they are younger than one. He is tiny for his age and everyone misjudges him.

You’ve seen a snapshot of a person’s day, you don’t know what the child has had for breakfast or lunch. You don’t know if the parent has had a rough day.

Not sitting upright isn’t safe and probably not the best to be sitting eating on the bus incase the child chokes but again this may be a one off.

Pizza isn’t the worst thing a child can have. In lots of parenting/ weaning books they usually suggest a pizza or pizza alternative.

NoWinnersOnlyLosers · 11/01/2026 23:12

Clearly it is not about the pizza. He could have choked.

KateDelRick · 11/01/2026 23:13

NoWinnersOnlyLosers · 11/01/2026 23:12

Clearly it is not about the pizza. He could have choked.

It is about the pizza.