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?

I have lived at the fit o' the Walk too, and pilrig street for 5 years, so feel entitled to comment

Yes it is bad, no it is not bad enough to get this worked up about

I wouldn't say the op was worked up, higgle.

Yes

pmsl!

You could always get some subtle MN cards printed:

"Need parenting advice? Pop on to MN, but leave the fruitshit at the door."

Yes, a little sticker with a Fruitshit in a red circle with a line through it.

I shall pop to the printers tomorrow MadameOvary!

you must have hit loon jackpot shouting in your car.was your dh black affronted? fruit shoot surely an oxymoron

paggering is that the same as a sherricking

millyR, thanks for that. If the only admonition is that 'there is no need', I don't see any harm really. My 2 year old can drink out of baby bottle (I don't think he does that now though), fruit shoot bottle, beaker, sippy cup, straw but mostly from an open cup.

I mostly do not pay any attention to HVs who give parenting advice.

I can't remember what the purpose is of the sip cup/open cup; it may be about it being good for your child's development to learn to sip, and the teat thing is to do with teeth and exposure to sugar,as children suck for comfort and not just for thirst, so could prolong sugar exposure, but I think a quick google would give a variety of (no doubt conflicting) dentist opinions.

I used to live at the foot of the walk too

I was on Kirk Street myself

"Fruit juice from a bottle bathes your child?s teeth in sugar and may contribute to tooth decay."

I googled as MillyR said and couldn't find any conflicting opinions - basically, the above is the case, so no juice in bottles!

BOF - me too!!

For almost ten years actually

Nooo, really? 26, first floor, until 2001- I wonder if we knew each other?

I was at 14, top floor from 1995 - 2004ish - I used to work at the Central.

At the traffic lights!! Am shocked, was the buggy brake on? Could the poor the malnourished mite's buggy have rolled under a car? Could he have got out and run 'pell-mell' across the road necessitating another mn Bollocking? Was it a nuk bottle that mimmicks lady teats or a nasty cheap one with a picture of a teddy on the side? Was the mother a smoker? Did he have a DVD player in the buggy? If he'd made a run for it across the busy road would she have smacked him? I think we, the MN police need to track down this poor little one, he is almost certainly in for a life of CITV, late nights, trouble at school, crime, drug adiction and prison. We must rescue him now before its too late and introduce him to the world of homous, spring water, raw carrot and fresh fruit smoothies. Arise the women of MN to change a life for the better!

Fruit shoot sports cap bottles aren't suitable for children under 3 years- read the label.

A friend of mine moved in there about then with her son and twin boys- it would be funny if it was the same flat. We might even recognize each others kids! Do you remember the urchins out in all weathers with no coat? (not mine!) they used to knock at my door to get fed...it was like something out of the nineteen-thirties!

Once saw a woman give a 3 year old irn Bru in a babies bottle. On a train from Glasgow to Ayr.

Isn't Irn Bru one of the Scttish 5 a day? The other four being

• tablet
• Deep fried Mars Bar
• Cowans chews
• Edinburgh rock

Fruit Shoots are probably for the middle class "puffs" into all the organic shite...

tablet .... drool

yum weegie 5 a day
a fag
morton roll
square sausage
fried tattie scone wi broon sauce

ah'm reminiscing noo being a wean