How to stop grandparents giving your baby chocolate?
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Just say you’ll be eating it then lol because it will go off by the time she can have it!
What makes her think bubs is hungry? A lot of what used to be thought of as signs are just developmental. The nhs say the digestive system isn’t ready until around 6 months. So baby will be fine on breast milk for now. I would be furious about the chocolate thing. Your child. And she needs to respect how you parent and the choices you make. X
If she can't respect your wishes as parent, then I definitely would agree that I wouldn't trust her to watch your LO later down the line.
Just say no and set the boundary that if she feeds baby anything without your consent she won't be seeing baby until her behaviour changes.
My mum keeps pushing me to start weening.... ive told her they have guildlines which im following "if you dont start now that baby will still be drinking milk at 18 from a bottle!" He turned 5 months on bloody friday 😡
My in laws & my grandmother are like this (and he literally has a dairy allergy!) so they don’t get time with him unsupervised. Even if we’re in the same house, one of us is in the room with him if there’s ANY food around
It’s so annoying my LO is 3 months and my MIL keeps saying I should try her with food now. I’ve told her loads of times she’s not ready and I’m not weaning her anytime soon. She then went and brought her some chocolate buttons for Easter. She walked it showing me baby them and I shut that down so quickly. This is my second baby so I’ve not put up with all the bs this time around and put everyone straight 😂 They’ve all been warned to respect our decision and boundaries or they will have nothing to do with our children 🤷🏻♀️
All our grandparents were obsessed about her not eating until she was 6 months. Every time I saw them they would ask if she was eating, every time she cried they would say it was because she was hungry. When I mentioned her waking up at night they would say it would stop if I fed her earlier. I honestly just tune it out. I don't have an answer for the chocolate thing. Have you explained the reasons why you don't want her to have chocolate. I've told the grandparents we are keeping off chocolate/sweets for aslong as possible and then once we do start giving them we won't make a big deal out of it.
I have a sister with 3 kids, a cousin with 1 and 1 myself. All aged nearly 2-6. I am the only one who has had restrictions on my child's eating. My sister and cousin happily gave their babies chocolates, juice, sweets. We have always been more strict. My son is almost 3 but still very rarely has a very small amount of chocolate. He got given an advent calander by his uncle and he still has it as we give him one as a treat for doing a poo on the potty. No juice, only milk or water, no sweets etc. My family really struggled to understand at the beginning, especially my nan who has always been a boundary stomper and my mum struggled with her when we were kids and being raised the same way. I made it very clear that if anyone didn't respect my rules as a parent, they were not trusted around my child. That would be it. She realised I was being serious and has never broken the rules. He loves grapes, blueberries and raisins and he's over the moon when he gets a punnet as a treat.
My girl was 4 months for her first Easter people got her chocolate. I just thanked them and ate the chocolate my self haha no way she having it that young when she’s wasn’t even eating any foods at all x
I would just be blunt If you can’t respect and obey with my rules please don’t have my child alone.
Oh no I would really struggle with that!!! My brother and his husband have often expressed the fact they think its cruel that my sister doesn't give her little ones sweets and chocolates, but she's just trying to get them more used to eating nutritious foods while they're young and developing their taste buds etc. They don't know about sugary and processed foods so it's not like they're being deprived. They now love vegetables, beans, tofu etc and actively choose it over unhealthy foods because they genuinely prefer it, which is amazing! I'll be doing the same with my little boy and I know I'll be having comments made, and I'm sure my MIL will do the same as your mum has. So hard when people feel like they have some sort of say on how you parent your child. I think you just have to stand your ground and say these are my wishes and how I'm choosing to parent. Regardless of how you would do it please just respect my wishes for MY child