to report this mother and grandmother to the Mumsnet police?

[MadameOvary]

DP and I were in car at traffic lights. Two women (looked like mother and daughter) and a pushchair with a toddler, maybe two.
Older woman stopped, got a -yes- Fruitshoot out of the buggy bag.
I noted this as only a Mumsnetter could
But then
She proceeded to get a baby bottle out of the bag, complete with teat, pour the Fruitshit into it and give it to the bairn.
Before I could stop myself I bawled 'No! Don't give the poor kid that sugary shite'
Thankfully the car windows were closed.
Otherwise, this being Leith, I would have got a 'paggering'
DP looked at me askance and told me I was over-reacting.
Well, am I?

LOL

my advice is not to drive through Leith anymore

stick to Barnton and Morningside

more info needed:

was it organic?

Pmsl!!

Normal for Leith, surely? I used to live at the fit o' th' walk...

I see mums lighting their 13 yr old daughter's fags for 'em round here. Don't sweat a bit of aspartame, love!

Stick to Morningside from now on....

just as well they didnt hear you

you'd have got your heid banged in

Reminds me of when I was sitting outside a pub in a not very nice part of Brighton.

A Dad pushing his daughter in a pushchair took out her sippy cup - threw the contents of it on the pavement all over our feet then topped it up with more full sugar strawberry ribena.

I was only early 20s at the time so only judged him for the foot soaking. How times have changed

It was a blackcurrant variety, I believe. Not organic AFAIK.
Unfortunately due to the high volume of roadworks that was the only route we could take.
Normally I have my eyes shut till we pass Ocean Terminal, that'll teach me.

[phones Waitrose to see if they do organic Fruit shoots]

I am from Morningside, but the slummy bit or 'poor end'
There was however still pressure to keep up. Apparently another child in my street was sent to school with sliced turnip in their sandwiches and told to pretend it was cheddar cheese. I kid you not.

I once said to someone who was reading 'Hello' that I could not believe how many pics there were in it of women giving babies and toddlers juice in baby bottles (must have been a coincidence in 1 issue that there were so many).

The reader's reply was, "Well there can't be anything wrong with it, or they wouldn't do it."

So I blame celebrity culture for your fruit shoot incident. Posh does it so it must be fine.

MO, that is why children grow up to not know what an aubergine is, because they are told that turnips are a dairy product.

Was is a cooked turnip?

Maybe she gave it to the child to hold and she accidently took a drink.

There's more chemicals then sugar in this poison I'm afraid. There's nothing 'fruit' about it.

Milly
'Twas raw turnip (mmm crunchy)

Better raw turnip than dairylea slices. Very macrobiotic (probably)

Are you objecting to the fruitshoot (of course) or putting it in a baby bottle? What is inherently wrong with the latter? It is the same sucking motion to drink it.

Very bad for your teeth

There was a young girl of about 2/3 whose Grandmother worked at the small soft play place we went to, she spent all day sipping out of a baby bottle full of full fat Coca Cola. She often fell asleep at the top of the playframe. It was sad as her Grandmother was working, so she was being ignored and left to wander round all day. Her mother worked and lived away all week and came home at weekends.

What it is the difference whether it is in a fruit shoot bottle or a baby bottle?

OMG - that was me I am the grandmother

MN's are everywhere.....

Yes, and i bet you were off to Gregg's you norty woman

Blueshoes, I was told by the health visitor, and by the dentist, that you shouldn't give juice from a baby bottle with a teat on. If your child is old enough to drink juice, they should drink it from a spout type cup (toddler type) if they were going to drink juice at all. It is better for a child to drink juice from a free flowing spout rather than a teat.

The type of sucking motion used when drinking from a bottle is different to that used when sucking from a breast, and there is no need for any child to use the sucking from a teat motion except for the consumption and digestion of formula milk.

I was given this advice 10 years ago, so the advice may have all changed by now.

As for fruit shoot bottle vs. baby bottle, I don't know. I suppose it depends if fruit shoot style bottles are free flowing or require a sucking motion.

Oy, less of the cheek about Leith (or we will set the Leith police on you.).

Have seen a baby being given Red Bull but that was in Pilton and that really is scary round there. They will give you a "paggering" (WTF is that?) in Pilton.

Nah cant get into greggs with a fag hanging out of my gob