Unbelievable!!!

[Slinky]

Stopped off in Tescos today with my mum and DD2 -decided to have some lunch whilst there.

A woman comes along with a baby who looked about 6 months old. Baby starts grizzling, so woman (not mother - I could hear her saying mummy will be back in a minute) goes to the counter and buys 2 VERY LARGE cokes. She then proceeds to pour coke into baby's bottle and hands over to the poor little thing.

Woman now aware that both my mum and I are sat there gobsmacked - mum says rather loudly "what the b**dy hell is she doing????" and "OMG, can't believe she's giving it to that baby".

Another woman comes back - the mother - picks the now crying baby up - tips the coke back into the cup and tops up the bottle with carton of baby milk. Poor little thing then gulps down the milk.

What my mum and I don't understand is - a) does the baby normally have coke because mum didn't seem angry/concerned. I would have gone absolutely crazy if my mum/friend had done that -not that it would have crossed their minds to do that!

Sounds like the non mum woman could have learning difficulties (not being sly).
If the mother wasn't too concerned may be she knows there's no point in being cross, but then why would she leave her baby with someone who wasn't wholly responsible?

mad isn't it?

about a month ago i saw a girl giving her little girl(16 months ish) coke in a babys bottle.

WHY???

that exact thought occured to me suzywong! (but i am not articulate this evening )

TBH you'll never understand grannys (if the woman was the granny), my biggest fear of leaving DS with my mum is that if he gets a mild cold and she will be happy to stuff him with antibiotics, I wonder why my sisters and I have not muted due to excessive antibiotic use.

She uses them as aspirins "you, take one, one's enough to clear it up" GRRRR!

jaysus......
I came back home yesterday to find my 27 yr old brother had given coke to my 10yr old ds over the weekend, after dh and I had gone to a wedding overnight...He got a right bollocking about that...I tend to go with Suzy though, I think the person who did it may not have been mature enough one way or another to supervise such a thing...
Scary though

maisystar
I'm just about to have my second glass of wine, just give me a few minutes to start babbling

oooh, i'll have a second glass too-see if it helps

I like your clear calm rational way of thinking Suzywong, what a great explanation.
When i gave L prune juice in a spouted beaker and we were out i got worried that people would think I was giving her coke! Uggghhh the very thought of it!

I went to the house of some friends of my dh's who had given their baby coke in a baby bottle. I was gobsmacked? Then again, I was breastfeeding and they were equally gobsmacked (had never seen it before).

When I met dh, he used to go pick up his kids and stop at macdonalds for dinner with them on the way home. When he arrived home the kids would be running around like maniacs for a good hour. I finally figured out dh was buying them large cokes with their Happy Meals. He had no idea that coke was full of caffeine and no idea about the sugar high either.

My friend saw a toddler in a pushchair at Chester Zoo drinking Red Bull through a straw. Its just frightening........

My in-laws gave ds his first ice-cream, a magnum, at the age of one, expressly against my wishes because I'm apparently "just such a mean mummy". FIL also occasionally gave him sips of special brew and taught him how to do a "glasgae nod" (headbutt) just before he started nursery.
They still don't see what was wrong with any of it.

I'm afraid Irn Bru in the bottle is a pretty common sight around here. My dh is a theatre nurse and every Friday morning they do "Community dentals" i.e. extractions on children requiring general anaesthetic. Last week there was 2 year old having 6 rotten teeth removed. The mother gave him Irn Bru to drink (from a bottle/teat) as soon as he recovered from his anaesthetic. The dentist gave her a bollocking, but it didn't look as if it had sunk in

When DS1 was little I saw a baby (about 9 months) sitting in the pram with a can of Irn Bru. I also had a friend at the time who used to come to my house and put coke in her son's (about 15 months at the time) bottle, she would put her finger over the teat and shake it up and down then take her finger off and they would both laugh as the gas escaped.

i am gobsmacked as i read this thread.

here i was feeling guilty that DD has diluted squash and apple juice - Ribena light carton in emergencies.

giving toddlers tea is another thing i don't understand.

The creche manager at my gym has apparently had to speak to a number of mothers about bringing in feeding bottles with coke for babies as young as 4 months old She says it appears that in some cultures it is not seen as doing anything bad and the mothers are shocked to be told it could be harmful.

My cousin is a theater sister in a day surgery unit. She tells me that it is quite common for 2 year olds to be admitted to have all of their teeth removed as a result of decay cause by sugary drinks in a bottle!

She says that the parents are so useless she wan't to sterilize them at the same time

Saw a kid in the back of a car, unrestrained on Sunday. Car was in the fast lane of the M6 ffs!

What Sozie just said reminds me. At the creche at our local leisure centre one of the carers there commented that it was nice to see that my children always (well nearly always) have fruit with them for a snack and that she gets sick of seeing kids who regularly have packets of crisps at snack time.

My mum had a client who complained that her son was as high as a kite all the time. Mum asked if he was still getting milk to which client answered 'oh he doesn't like milk, he'll only take Irn Bru'. No wonder he had rampant hyperactivity.

For those not familiar, Irn Bru is affectionately known as Scotlands other national drink. It is a bright orange conconction with enough caffeine to keep a bull elephant dancing all night and enough sugar to rot it's tusks.

Well I must be an awful mum Turquoise - my ds definately had ice cream before he was two, and it was even me who gave it to him. Funny - when he was teething and not interested in eating anything else I actually thought that icecream, which at least made his gums less uncomfortable wasn't really such a bad thing.

what's wrong with ice cream? my dd's have it regularly (last night it was vanilla with fresh raspberries)

I must be a bad mum - DD has ice cream and tea - I don't think either of these things can be as bad as coke!!

We've done ice cream before two as well. Never do coke etc though, which most people round here think is weird. Ds1 came out of a party when he was 4 saying proudly "I've had two cups of coke" (first time ever). He must have burnt off the high at the party, but the next day hw eas on the floor. He's a really lively boisterous boy without fizzy drinks, but that day he was exhausted from the minute he woke up. Has never had it since (well, AFAIK!).

Oh and tea: my step-mother used to give my half-sisters milky tea with lots of sugar in bottles. This was before I had children, so I didn't realise, but now, with hindsight, I'm gobsmacked.

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Slinky - The woman must have been educationally subnormal to give coke to a 6 month old baby! poor child.