Am I a cruel Mother?

[DaniiSmith]

Hi everyone,

I really need some advice!

I'm a first time mother and my Daughter has just recently turned 6 months. We've started the solids process and I'm trying my hardest to give her fresh fruit, veg etc etc...

Now I'm a vegetarian, my partner isn't so we both decided to give our daughter fish, and if later in life she decided she would like to eat meat then I have no issue with that.

However, I went to a family bbq today, where I prepped veggies for myself and my daughter to eat. My family asked if I would like to try my baby with some meat... I said no. They then carried on saying to try her with crisps, coke and juice.
My response was absolutely not.

My mother and my sister called me cruel and it really hit a nerve. Am I? She's just turned 6 months, I'm not saying she can't ever try these things, I'm just desperate for her to get use to fresh veg and fruit and to enjoy them!

Am I being too rigid? Do I need to loosen up??

Greggers2017 people are that stupid. My in-laws put cola in babies bottles. My FIL gave a five year old sips of his beer. My SIL’s children play at being falling down drunk.

I believe the OP. They are either being sarcastic about her food choices and offering crap to her baby or really are doing it because , like my in-laws, they know no better.