MIL's not good food suggestions

[MumtoEliane]

Hi all, I'd like to know how would yoy deal with this situation:

DD is 6 monts, at the moment bottle fed, and having fruit a vegetables, pureed, mashed, or as finger foods. Well, my mothe rin law comes up with all this not very healthy suggestions. At easter she almost bought a whole easter egg for DD but then said she "might be a bit young?" thank god.

She has said lots of things like, dunk the dummy in sugar or Ribena so she keeps it in her mouth, put weetabix in the bottle, that type. Which I can easily ignore as she is not there when I don't do it.

But as DD eats more and more things and we get together every sunday, this is getting a bit more difficult.

Today she came for lunch and DD was having boiled carrot sticks and I was having a piece of cake. She said "Sure she could manage a bit of that cake?" I just smiled at her, but felt uncomfortable just ignoring the suggestion. She had 5 children and I feel bad telling her "she is a bit young" how can I tell her that brought up 5? or say that HV doesn't advise as she knows well that I ignore the HV for many other things...

I am dreading the day she will want to give her sweets or something and I have to tell her not to. Like next year at easter, as I think it will still be too early for DD to have chocolate.

I am sure this is not an isolated case, what did you do?

I would not let a 6 month old have cake / chocolate.

My mil always brags that her children (dh and 2 brothers) never had sweets until they were 2.5
However, dh and his brothers have terrible teeth as once they got tried sweet things they never stopped (and teeth brushing was never important)

Everything in moderation is what I say.

Babies need fat in their diet.

I wouldn't actually give a 6 month old cake all the time by the way. But I don't think it's good to have foods that baby can have and foods that baby can have. Everyone should eat together.

My mum used to give my dd cake when she was quite young- she always used to justify it by saying "at least you are getting some egg into her.."" I was a bit

They get fat from milk, and later on from the veried diet including full fat milk, cheese, other dairy, eggs.......

And I also think everyone should eat together but at 6 months there loads of things babies shouldn't have! From year one is when they can have the same as adults, thats the advice I've been given and the one I would follow as I think it makes sense.

DD sits with us at the table but she has her veggies and finger foods. We still can't share our spag bol, I think.

From six months they shouldn't have honey or too much salt.

Don't add salt to the spag bol as you're making it and absolutely she can have it.

We are introducing wheat slowly as she gets constipated easily. Meet from 7 months, and tomatoes a bit later.

I think they shouldn't have added salt at all. My DP eats wothout any added salt.

I meant MEAT