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When did you give your baby sugar?

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TheBeesKnee · 19/03/2024 00:49

As in, sugar from sources other than fruit?

DS is almost 11 months and the sweetest thing he's probably had is an orange. He was trembling with excitement and his head nearly popped off! He has fruit for dessert after lunch and dinner. He eats well. Is breast fed and drinks water sometimes. He's had Calpol, which obviously contains sugar but I'm not sure if that counts.

My parents and in-laws keep making comments about giving him a taste of chocolate or juice etc etc. I'm not comfortable but when I complained about this in my "mums" group I got lots of comments about how the babies have tried biscuits, chocolates, brioche etc and I'm now second guessing myself.

Am I being unreasonable? Am I too strict? I don't actually know how long I'm going to keep this up for, I know he will try sweets and chocolate etc at some point... but I don't know when!

Just looking for some experience, feedback, insight etc.

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allthevitamins · 19/03/2024 22:09

Jeepers, who knew that giving your DCs virtually any sugar before school age was so bad? We do know there's a lot of sugar in fruit, don't we?

I mean moderation is good. But they literally start mainlining haribo from about 4 at parties.

What's wrong with the odd rich tea biscuit, or bit of jammy toast from about 9 months onwards?

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