18 month old eating cake

[Smarshian]

So my DD has a healthy diet - a typical day would be cereal and fruit for breakfast with full fat milk, jacket potato/sandwich/omelette for lunch and homemade cottage pie/lasagne/fish pie etc with veg for tea.
She has some snacks on occasion- mainly fruit or crackers etc. Every now and then I'll let her have a little bit of chocolate/ couple of crisps/ taste of ice cream (maybe once or twice a week - but not a lot at a time).

I'm usually pretty laid back about her diet but we went to a birthday party yesterday and she was given cake in her party bag (quite a large slice), after her dinner DH gave her the cake which is much more sugar than she is used to. Anyway this morning she woke up early and threw up all over her cot. She seems fine in herself. Do you think it's the sugar? I feel terrible if so that we caused her to be sick.

It could be almost anything with an 18 month old. That would be quite a delayed reaction to fast acting sugars in cake. Try not to worry.

It could be a coincidence.

I’d say coincidence.

More like over eating than the actual sugar iyswim.
If it was a tasty treat after a full meal she may well have eaten much more than she would usually.

Honestly don’t sweat it.

Last Saturday my 2yo ate more cake than he's used to at a friends BBQ and then didn't want any tea. In the morning I found he was sleeping next to a pile of dried sick. I didn't hear him in the night and he's been fine since. I assumed it was the junk he ate he day before. If your dd seems well and eats ok today I wouldn't worry about it.

Sounds like a bug

sounds like she has probably caught soem germs from the other children at the party. Next time tell dh to eat the cake!

Thanks all for the reassurance- she seems fine now - her normal happy self. Think maybe I'll just try to keep hr food bland today. Maybe correct about the overeating!