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