to be livid with my brother for feeding my 8 month old CHOCOLATE?

[vannah]

At a family birthday get together today? And then have the rest of my family including my husband telling me that I am over reacting because I started crying - out of being so angry???

He gave her one rectangular piece of milky bar. This was when I was in the other room..

Oops - sorry for the double hijack!

OMG!FFS! If you react like this to 1 square of the devils chocolate God knows how you will react when she comes in pssed at 13/14yrs!!!!!!!!!
Get a grip!

LOL your capital letters for CHOCOLATE and crying about it. Honestly, in a year's time I think you'll look back on this thread and cringe.

It's nothing to cry over, really. Not ideal, but not the end of the world.

LOL My PFB had a spoon of choc mousse at 10wks! She hadn't been weaned at that point, now 2.6 and has only recently started to like chocolate. Last year she got to choose treats for her xmas calander and chose yoghurt covered raisins!LOL

Oh be nice to the poor woman. She needs to realise it doesn't matter, but not get a tirade of abuse. We've all had our pfb moments. Are you still there vannah?

why were you crying, didn't he offer you any?

Did you want to be there?

I so did to watch that sparkle... my DS2 pratically had a fit when he first ate chocolate, it was the best thing that had ever happened to him

so I understand but you will look back and laugh

I wish someone would feed me CHOCOLATE RIGHT NOW .

I was like this with my pfb & my FIL, because he eats rubbish despite his type 2 diabetes & his 'harmless' treats have got him where he is healthwise now, but I wouldn't have been quite so much like this with anyone else.

I think Uncles are meant to do this kind of thing & it wasn't a deep-fried mars bar.

In the big scheme of things yes YABU really, especially if you cried & it upset your relationship with your brother.

Nor will your dd have to go 'cold turkey'

vannah, just ignore us all

I cried when I gave my PFB his first solids, he'd been only breastfed before that and this was the first food he'd been given that wasn't from me!!!

Now he's 10 and has just eaten a bowl of coco pops for dinner!!

you'll cringe at your memories too one day!

It really doesn't matter. I got upset when my granny gave my DD a teaspoon of baked beans with a good dosing of salt. She was 10 WEEKS old

She's now 21 years old and getting pissed and eating kebabs with the rest of em. I don't blame me granny or the beans though

Is this a joke?

As said above, get a grip, I could understand you being a bit annoyed but to cry?

DD2 (10 months) has all kinds of goodies that I deprived DD1 of as a older baby. A lovely little bit of chocolate croissant she demolished today.

a friend of mine gave my ds wine on his finger when my ds was 8 months old . I really don;t think choc is a problem. Please don't worry

My FIL gave my PFB a chunk of pork pie on his first birthday. I was not best pleased but I kept it to myself. Crying would have been way OTT.

I totally understand where you are coming from and wouldn't be best pleased. I wouldn't feed anything to any other child before asking a parent!

Ohhhh be nice you lot !

Although highly insulting I have had a good laugh reading your replies and now feel a bit silly.
Yes there are underlying issues, my brother knows that both of my children and I have pretty bad eczema, Im somewhat neurotic about what they eat - esp under the age of one. He doesn't speak to me at all - its a family feud situation (bit complicated, I married the 'wrong nationality') therefore this added to it -yes.
And to those of you who suggested he asked first, I agree. But with not talking to me, that would be hard to do.

well don't feel silly. Can be harsh on here especially not knowing the circs.

vannah - I would have been furious, too. Because we weaned both our children very carefully due to allergy issues and at 8 months I would not have wanted them to have any new foods, let alone chocolate.

Would I have cried with anger - it depends how I was feeling. If tired, hormonal, sleep-deprived etc etc etc, yes I might have. And with family issues like yours probably - but that's not really a result of the chocolate.

So possibly you over-reacted, but not by as much as people on here are making out.

My DD (just one) had never tasted chocolate until last week. We were on holiday at a castle type place and DD was having a bit of a toddle and was just staring at a family who were having a rest and a snack. The nice mummy (austrian I think) offered DD a wrapped kinder bar which DD grabbed and so I undid it for her and fed it to her while smiling and thanking the kindly austrians.

Wasn't ideal she ate a whole choccy bar, but was way less ideal to be rude to a kindly family. Offering a baby something "nice" is kind of hard wired into lots of people. And if someone is doing something nice it's surely best to think OK and get on with it.

Difference comes if it's regular - I watch the GP's like a hawk (well sort of).

Erm so yes, YABU.

Interestingly, DD did not look terribly excited by kinder treat. She accepted it, like any small child, as if she was royalty and would have expected nothing less. Then ate it very matter-of-factly and went and ran around in the cloisters until she got very overexcited indeed (all that space in a straight line!!!) and had to be stuffed back in her pushchair.

Vannah, my DS is 14 months old and has chocolate a few times a week. But at 8 months I'd have been upset if anyone had given him chocolate. I wanted to give him his first Button and see his reaction. And I think 8 months is quite young - in a baby's life the time between months is HUGE in terms of development. I can't say that I wouldn't have cried too, tbh.

to the op
yabu