Went around to my MIL's for Sunday dinner a while ago. DS at just 6 months was on day two of baby rice and after announcing that I'd begun to wean him I had to spend the rest of the meal fending of attempts to feed him salted mash potato dripping in bisto gravy and other such items.
Even now at 10 months, after DS has had a full meal, a nutricious and colourful array of finger foods and is fit to burst, they ignore my pleas and put cold, gravy soaked bits of leftovers on his tray.
I brought up this subject at baby group the other day and was horrified to hear that one mum cought her MIL, sneekily feeding her DS, at the tender age of 4.5 months, a 'Blue Ribbon' chocolate biscuit bar and later that day stuck a finger of triffle in his mouth.
Why is it that MIL's and the older generation in general seem so bent on the idea of feeding our baby's unhealthy, chokey food stuffs that they don't need and we dont want them to have? Why do they do it and what's the worse thing your MIL has tried to feed your baby?