Should a baby eat jelly?

[P0ndLife]

Just that really... 8month old has begun to reject breakfast porridge. MIL tried jelly which he loves (she's convinced it's good for growing bones )
I didn't mind as an occasional thing but it's becoming regular breakfast and I'm worried about the sugar content.

Am I laying the foundation for obesity?

Background: ebf bottle refuser till 6 months, slow uptake with solids since then

I'd keep it as an occasional treat. Have you tried shreddies? My DD loves them.

There's no reason why a baby shouldn't eat jelly (so long as it's not the raw cubes which can be a choking risk) but you're right, the sugar content isn't ideal and there's virtually no nutritional value. At 8 months they should be getting most of their calories through milk still so I wouldn't be too worried about solid refusal. There's lots of other things to try for breakfast. Weetabix, fruit, toast, lumps of cheese or ham.

It's pretty normal for babies and toddlers to start rejecting whatever you have just figured out that they like. Try weetabix, natural yoghurt and fruit, cheese, scrambled eggs and so on. There's nothing wrong with a bit of jelly but it offers very little nutrition.

Thanks! I hadn't thought of shreddies and he loves satsuma... Such a shame he's inherited my sweet tooth though

It wouldn't hurt as a snack/pudding. But see what you mean about not setting up a breakfast jelly habit how about weetabix with warm milk, or he might like a bit of toast?

If he likes the texture could you make juice jellies?

I think the texture is very easy for him~though the ton of sugar helps~ ... Will google juice jelly, though I suppose that's still a treat really

You've just reminded me My dg used to make us milk jelly when we were little was yummy!

No reason why they shouldn't eat jelly, but it's more of a pudding than a breakfast. Having said that, on the weekends my DH would get up with DS and feed him his breakfast (weetabix e.g.) and then his "breakfast pudding" of rice pudding doesn't seem to have done him any harm, and at 2yo he's happy with a bowl of Cheerios now.

Get some gelatine and make some jelly with diluted juice.

The only downside is that he will lie in bed looking pathetic when he's a teenager and a bit poorly and beg you to make him jelly "like when I was little".

Not for breakfast! Maybe try different foods like weetabix, mix berries or fruit puree into the porridge or plain yoghurt, or toast with jam/marmite etc.

Juice jelly, milk jelly, a whole world of healthy jelly I was unaware of
Fingers crossed he'll go for it!