Chocolate Bar At 7 Months...

[QuootiePieBANGERSandMash]

Please list WHY its so wrong... I looked over yesterday to find my MIL had given my DS a caramel bar and he was sucking the chocolate off. I just didnt know what to do! I didnt have a responce in my head so just kind of sat there dumb. She then went out to Tesco and bought him a packet of Milky Bars. And she held him later that evening and he'd "grabbed" her donut off her, and eaten some... I wasnt there, so, it might be true, but, I doubt it. Please help me to tell her to stop it, as politely and intellectually (sp!?) as you can.... thanks...

Sorry, forgot to add

I still haven't found a polite way of telling my mum not to add salt to my babies food. She seems to think that my children are deprived because I never add salt! They don't seem to realise do they that it's our choice and responsibility how we feed our babies?

Quootie, I did a similar thread on this - here . Some people put forward some good reasons on it for not giving chocolate (other than the 'are you bloody insane????' argument, which was the only one I could come up with).

Um, sugar overload on kidneys?

Next time she does it, grab it quick and say last time you gave him a doughnut/caramel bar/Ginster's pie etc he was up all night screaming in pain and had the runs for 3 days, poor boy. She wouldn't want that, would she?

You could try explaining how you want to wean your child and what the WHO recommends, but MILs seem impervious to such info, ime.

Then you eat his doughnut/chocolate/pie like the good mummy you are.

at donut grabbing BTW! Can your MIL really not outwit/outgrapple a 7 month old?

lol "outgrapple"

excellent new word

I shall use it today, out loud.

(I have been outwitted by a 7 month old, however )

You have to be firm with her otherwise before you know it she will be marching him down to Maccy D's for a big Mac & Fries.

I was so anal with MIL about what he could and couldn't eat that the other day she phoned me as ds had asked for milk and I had only left water (he is 2.3)and she did not want to give him something without my permission. I was very embrassed but at least I know she is not giving him pork pies behind my back.

As someone has suggested tell her about the WHO guidelines or if that fails just tell her that he doesn't eat his meals if he has snacky stuff in between and you want to wait until he is at least a year before you let him have chocolate.

Thanks Ill pop to the WHO website and stock up on ammo

Nogoes, she would aswell! (go to McD's). My DH in all his childhood pictures is at least 2 or 3 stone overweight! His dad and grandad had diabetes, and his dad has only just died of a heartattack and diabetes was named on the certificate aswell... some people are so blind!

get this - my MIL gave my DS a chocolate finger biscuit at 4 and a half months!! 2 days before I was going to start weaning him too.... They think I am some weird hippy for not letting him have sweets. I have a feeling that although I have made my feelings on the subject clear they are still giving him this shit behind my back - what else can I do???