Small vent about sad weaning behaviour

[Huron]

I have a dd, 11mo, and I know being a new parent is difficult, and I try not to judge, etc. Plus, I realise advice changes over time - for example my mother was ff, but bf us, but also started to wean us at 3mo because that is what she was told was best...

BUT I just saw a young mum and dad buy a pack of QUAVERS for their baby, who must of been about.. oh... 9mo. I thought maybe the baby is just holding the pack, but no, watched mum&dad open it and start feeding the poor thing. I honestly wanted to throttle them - and cry. How can the baby even eat them? My dd would choke.

Okay, needed to vent !

Oh come off it; it's not bleeding arsenic! Quavers, though salty, are quite easy to eat for a baby of 9mo who is used to finger food

Hey - don't worry about it. Quavers melt in the mouth, and all that.

[being flippant emoticon]

but a 9 month old can have finger food, and quavers do dissolve, yes, most likely salty, but i would not have felt like crying

my DD could eat an apple at 9 - 10 months, quavers would not have been an issue

It wasn't my cousin was it? She rang me a few weeks back to ask if an 11 month old could eat Quavers. I grilled her about the contents (salt etc) and told her it was ok as a one off but not to make a habit of it. Not her child btw, she was babysitting.

i used to give dd those organix corn snacks occasionally at that age
just posh quavers innit

And actually after reading it many times on MN extensive research, I can confirm that there is not so very much salt in Quavers compared to other crisps.

So, nerrrr.

Quavers are a bit salty, but not the devil's toenail clippings. DD is nearly 8 months and will happily eat Organix snacks, which are lower in salt and don't have weird additives but are basically posh Quavers (as I see CatIsSleepy has already said). She only gets a couple at a time, admittedly.

Babies choking is quite unusual; they do gag spectacularly when they first try big lumps but that's how they learn to control moving the food around in their mouths.

Could have been a petite 15 month old.

And what does the age of the parents signify ? Are you unconsciously disapproving of young parents as a species ?

I agree that quavers are not the worst thing to give as a treat.

(have not been on one of These Threads for months)

Hello BALD...

Oh heavens, I am a mother-who-abuses-baby-with-crisps -- sometimes it's the only way I can get a few minutes peace to make the tea (or do something similar). My baby is 9 months, I've been letting him have a few crisps most days for months now. They are from the left-over bags the other DC didn't quite finish, so I am being thrifty with food... er, do I get points as an eco-mother, at least??

I would give him unsalted rice cakes and organo-wonderful-snacko food instead, but they don't keep him occupied while I'm cooking tea!!

All of mine have been known to partake in the odd quaver/chocolate button from a young age. They are all healthy and eat a good variety of foods (compared to many toddlers). My almost 7mo dd2 will happily hold rice cakes/corn snacks etc and I would give her a quaver if I had nothing else with me.

DS could basically spoon feed himself at 6mo.
Also, as someone else said, the child may have been a lot older- my dd1 is 2.4 but could easily pass for a 12-18mth old.

It could have been a Greggs sausage roll FGS

my DD discovered at a very young age that she loves Doritos, when she pinched some of ours! And she is still alive!

I wouldn't mind some quavers now actually...

Oh I'm glad of this thread.

I saw a one year old with wotsits the other day and had no idea if I was supposed to be judgy about it or not.

Wow Fanjo, still alive after DORITOS? How?

DS ate just about anything he could get his hands on as a baby (from flapjack to slugs) and he is pretty much the healthiest 3yo I know! His immune system is so robust he rarely gets ill and when he is it's not that bad.

I THINK - can't remember but I think that my ds could manage an apple at about this age. Certainly he wouldn't have choked on a quaver - and he had no solids at all til 6 months. 3 months later he was hoovering up all sorts!

My 7-month-old wouldn't choke on a packet of quavers. I wouldn't give them to him anyway, but he would manage quite cheerfully if I did.

Oops, still wearing silly name.

I'm fine BALD. We have a sleeping breakthrough (ie. DH goes in, I DO NOT FEED at night anymore, I put in earplugs )

Frazzles...

Whew...

I probably should admit at this point I am not British, only recently moved here, so I am not entirely familiar with UK snack food. I haven't actually eaten a Quaver and perhaps am presuming they are worst then they are.. In Canada I was constantly advised not to give babies adult 'junk food', and to me they look like the very bad version of chemically produced, high salt, junk. The kind of taboo thing that strangers would openly criticise on the street back home, (like a baby with a coffee, beer, etc.)

But if I am wrong then I'm actually pleased to know it wasn't that bad. Also I have notice that the UK has a very different attitude to weaning than we do in general. So I suppose it's for me to learn.

Sorry if I offended anyone.

I think that my son would be have been able to cope with a quaver at 9 months, although he has never had quaver yet and he is nearly seven years old. I have just never bought them as I don't like them.

However I think mothers are more cautious and judgemental when they have a first born.

I remember when my niece was a newborn and she was crying. Her elder brother asked why the baby was crying and his mother answered that she was hungry. My nephew who was four years old promptly tried to feed his two day old sister Hula Hoops. My sil intervened rapidly and the this incident doesn't seem to have caused my niece any health problems. In fact she is now a lovely three year old who eats a good diet.