in thinking feeding a 3.5mth old baby chocolate isn't a spectator sport???

[glaskhamhasoneintheoven]

I was picking DS up from nursery today, one of the mums was there with her friends (parents of other nursery children) and she pulled out a bag of milkybar buttons and started feeding them to her baby... Her and her 3 friends were all stood round the pram laughing and poking them back in when she spat them out... At one point she was holding her lips closed saying 'come on just eat it'. In the 5mins we were waiting a few other parents gathered around the pram to watch, all laughing and giggling about feeding a baby chocolate... One mum asked the babies mum how old she was, the mother replied '3.5mths, I've been giving them to her since xmas, she loves them' so at 3mths she was feeding her baby buttons!!!!

I was horrified!! Seeing this... I was also horrified to see so many other parents thinking it was highly amusing!! So AIBU??? I just couldn't go on the rest of the day without ranting about this, and DH is at work so I can't rant to him!!

nekabu, I think the "problem" is that for older generations chocolate was indeed a real special treat only available in small doses and if used as "medicine" kit again would be made into wonderstuff (medicine, i.e. really available to soldiers for calories, etc.)...
thaN OUR GENNERATION CHOCOLATE BECAME NORMAL and cheap, but attitude was still in our parents generation...it is only now that all the negative stuff comes out...teeth/weight/etc.
but chocolate is a very addictive substance....so...hrd to change attitudes!

FairLadyRantALot, thanks for that, that makes sense! As I don't like it myself and thus don't have any 'emotional' attachments to it, it just wasn't making sense to me for people to feed it to babies but I can see why if they think it's a lovely, special treat.

btw..I am very addicted to the stuff but am aware of this, so, try to get the right attitude and not make it sound fabulopus...

surely the issue here is the forcefeeding, the foodstuff of significantly less interest.

Dd has had tastes of chocolate ever since she was weaned at six months. I consider this to be more acceptable than for her to grow up hearing her mum refer to people as chavlets and pikeys