To sit on the train and say nothing to this woman

[CHOOGIRL]

I was sitting on the train today and a woman (30+) got on with her baby who cannot have been more than six months. She then opened a bottle of fizzy fanta orange, decanted into the baby's bottle and then fed it to her. To say I was would be an understatement. I have no idea whether Fanta is OK for babies, but it just felt wrong. I so wanted to say something, but didn't. WWYD?

I would do nothing.

And unfortunately after today (when a social worker supervised a mum giving her 5 month old a sugar dummy - that's a fairground sugar dummy made entirely of sugar) I think no 'authority' like SS would be interested.

It's very sad.

I would have ripped the can from her hands and thrown it out of the window in the manner of an unexploded hand-grenade, while simultaneously calling social services, like any right-thinking mumsnetter- isn't that the correct etiquette in these situations?

i wouldn't have said anything, but would have looked shocked

silly twat probably thought it was ok, cause it was orange.

not a lot you could've said, and jamming the can down her throat would not be considered polite travelling behaviour.

Saying something would serve no purpose unfortunately.

I can top that. I once saw a woman who opened a can of red bull who then proceeded to pour some of it into her baby's bottle. The baby was about 8 or 9 months at most.

lol at BOF

OMG!

why not tell her she can get advise on the best fizzy drinks for babies on mumsnet?

How awful, baby's teeth will have holes in them very quickly if she does this regularly. I wouldn't say anything, it would be resented and ignored.

advice

f*ing Redbull?!!!

I remember being shocked at seeing a baby about that age drinking coke out of a bottle a couple of years ago, but that tops it!

at all these anecdotes

Laurie was that in the news or something you witnessed?

I haven't stopped thinking about it all day. This was a grown woman, who was well dressed. If it was a teenager I would probably have made conversation with her about the baby before mentioning something in a non-threatening way. But because this woman looked like she should have known better I said nothing.

BOF

Yes Red Bull. I couldn't believe it either.

LIW

dd witnessed it today at contact with her mum (mum fed it to her new baby)

OMG thats dreadful, I probably would be really really shocked and shoot her dagger looks but would not say anything. Bitoffun lol yes good idea.