A new mother in my FB feed

[karinothing]

umm

I am guessing people were not nice?

[kangaroo11]

Uhhhh

[osulori]

Oh dear.

[bunch]

I'm guessing that people admitted to all the shit they fed their kids. Bet that mom regrets it tonight when the baby starts wailing in pain.

[yellowbrkrd]

[hermione]

I bet there's at least one person who says doctors don't know babies as well as mommies do. Mommies know best ALLLLLLLLLLLLLWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

[cmarie11]

That's like when DH's grandmother asked us if we tried giving A a little food on our finger "just to see what she would do".

When we said, "Um, no", her old lady friends proceeded to tell us its because we're first time parents and with the next kid we will.

Mkay then.

[heygrey]

yikes. that poor little belly.

[Stingyshark]

Uhm


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[Deleted]

That poor baby's belly. Even babies without allergies are often very sensitive to milk products before a year

[winecheery]

!!!!!!!!!!

[rex]

i would have to hide that post.

how is this not general knowledge by now?!

[browneyedgirl9]

Yikes.

[runblondie26]

Well, thank god it wasn't pizza.

[Yankees21]

Two weeks?!

[humpforfree]

Um do what now?

[fortmyersbride]

Eek.

My MIL gave DS an Oreo at 3 mos. She thought it was "ok" b/c it was dairy-free (he is MPI). I was raging pissed.

[caramia17]

I am adopted and was in foster care for 3 months prior to coming home with my parents. There are all of these pics of me from that time. Eating food. The letter the foster mom gave my parents was like, "Caramia loves vegetables. She had green beans at 8 weeks! Yum!" I was also a fat baby and my H saw the pics one time and he was like, where's your pizza and steak?

But that was....several decades ago. She definitely should know better.

[turtlegirl]

Jul 24, 2014 20:44:39 GMT -5 @bunnybean said:

She got back with a "thanks for all the concern, but it was just a little bit on my finger!"

I'm breezy and I'm really not very mom judgy, but two weeks!? Surely she knows better.

I'm pretty darn breezy when it comes to most things, especially food. But really, 2 weeks old. It wouldn't even cross my mind to see how a two week old would react to even just a tiny bit of food.

[sent]

Maybe some parents really just don't know. My husband thought he was brilliant when he said "well since the rice cereal is so liquidy, instead of feeding it by spoon we could just feed it to her in her bottle like if we're out or something."

[curbsideprophet]

Jul 24, 2014 19:44:43 GMT -5 cmarie11 said:

That's like when DH's grandmother asked us if we tried giving A a little food on our finger "just to see what she would do".

When we said, "Um, no", her old lady friends proceeded to tell us its because we're first time parents and with the next kid we will.

Mkay then.

My second is six weeks old and has only had breast milk. I guess I am doing it wrong.

[fortmyersbride]

Jul 24, 2014 22:03:37 GMT -5 @abbycobb said:

Jul 24, 2014 21:20:39 GMT -5 fortmyersbride said:

Eek.

My MIL gave DS an Oreo at 3 mos. She thought it was "ok" b/c it was dairy-free (he is MPI). I was raging pissed.

How does a 3 month old even eat an Oreo?!

She held it up to his mouth and let him suck on it. She even took a picture b/c she was so excited to give him "his first treat"! I was at work when it happened. Between that, and deciding on her own she would start him on formula (instead of the pumped milk I left him) so he could "wean", she wasn't left alone with for quite some time. We had been letting her keep him home from DC when she visited, prior to those incidences.

[curbsideprophet]

Jul 24, 2014 22:09:36 GMT -5 fortmyersbride said:

Jul 24, 2014 22:03:37 GMT -5 @abbycobb said:

How does a 3 month old even eat an Oreo?!

She held it up to his mouth and let him suck on it. She even took a picture b/c she was so excited to give him "his first treat"! I was at work when it happened. Between that, and deciding on her own she would start him on formula (instead of the pumped milk I left him) so he could "wean", she wasn't left alone with for quite some time.

I would have flipped out at all of this.

[fortmyersbride]

Jul 24, 2014 22:10:49 GMT -5 curbsideprophet said:

Jul 24, 2014 22:09:36 GMT -5 fortmyersbride said:

She held it up to his mouth and let him suck on it. She even took a picture b/c she was so excited to give him "his first treat"! I was at work when it happened. Between that, and deciding on her own she would start him on formula (instead of the pumped milk I left him) so he could "wean", she wasn't left alone with for quite some time.

I would have flipped out at all of this.

Yeah, I was pretty much in a blind rage at that point. She said she decided to give him formula b/c it would help him STTN, and that waking to BF him would "seriously strain my marriage". She also mentioned during that stay that SIL had informed her how toxic immunizations are, and SIL would know as she has many more kids than me.

Not that I still hold a grudge or anything

[JayhawkGirl]

Just tonight I explained to my nephew that my 7 month old is too young for yogurt. That poor baby's tummy.

And fortmyersbride I would be livid. Just livid.

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Jul 24, 2014 22:24:03 GMT -5 @this said:

I feel like I'm in the crazy minority. I didn't do this, but an infant licking some yogurt? It's not like he/she was eating/licking more than like a 1/8 tsp. Like I said, I wouldn't do it, but I don't really get the outrage.

/flameful

Team you. From the OP I thought she was dishing it out of the container and on to the spoon to be fed as a bottle replacement? 

A lick. Really. I just can't care. 

With DD I was all concerned about this all the time (Thanks Internet!). With DS I don't make it a point to do it but it has happened. Whatever.

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Jul 24, 2014 22:15:05 GMT -5 fortmyersbride said:

Jul 24, 2014 22:10:49 GMT -5 curbsideprophet said:

I would have flipped out at all of this.

Yeah, I was pretty much in a blind rage at that point. She said she decided to give him formula b/c it would help him STTN, and that waking to BF him would "seriously strain my marriage". She also mentioned during that stay that SIL had informed her how toxic immunizations are, and SIL would know as she has many more kids than me.

Not that I still hold a grudge or anything

Uhm, I don't know how you have managed to remain civil with this woman!

[thebreakfastclub]

Jul 24, 2014 22:24:03 GMT -5 @this said:

I feel like I'm in the crazy minority. I didn't do this, but an infant licking some yogurt? It's not like he/she was eating/licking more than like a 1/8 tsp. Like I said, I wouldn't do it, but I don't really get the outrage.

/flameful

I have to agree and am not in the dairy outrage camp.   Formula is powdered milk after all, and my 6 month old loved whole milk yogurt.  

/additional flameful - I didn't really care when that wholesome food lady's chart said to start yogurt, citrus, or 100+ other things.  

[humpforfree]

Jul 25, 2014 7:30:28 GMT -5 @this said:

My 7mo wasn't supposed to have yogurt? And babies aren't supposed to have dairy until a year?! What the what?

This thread is blowing my mind. lol

Yeah- I had no idea about yogurt/dairy being put off.... Yogurt was on my "soon" list for him & I have him cheese (5.5 months) last night. Lol.

[thebreakfastclub]

My son got an EI at 6 months, and we were told to start yogurt then to help with the effects of the abx. He's had it almost every day since.

He started cheese shreds probably 6 weeks later.