Boiled alcohol
Today my mother made lunch for me, my husband and 9 month old baby. I didn't think much of it at first as I was just thankful I didn't have to cook. She made some meat, potatoes and a spinach blend. I've told her we are careful with what we feed little one (not even a silly amount tbh just mindful).
Anyways afterwards my mum asked if my daughter liked the spinach thing and I said yes she ate it. My mum then says it had wine in it! Just a small amount and the alcohol was boiled off but still I am really angry. Why would you not tell me that before baby had ate it?! I do not want to feed my baby girl wine (even without alcohol), and I didn't go through 40 weeks of insanely painful caffeine withdrawals in pregnancy so she could be fed wine!
Am I overreacting? I'm sure there was no danger to baby cause it was so little and alcohol was cooked away but I am still hurt by hit :/
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You have a right to be upset because around 40% of the alcohol remains even if some of it has evaporated during cooking.
I find it weird that she asked if she like it first before saying it had wine in it. That seems purposeful unless she isn’t in the right state of mind idk. That’s weird. I would be angry too.
I would be furious she should have said something before you fed it to baby not after and the fact she asked if she liked it first she knew what she was doing and you wouldn’t have wanted baby to eat it if you knew
I can't tell you that you're overreacting, I understand the reason to be upset. But, I wouldn't personally worry about it. Even ripe fruit has an alcohol content. It would have been nice if your mom had mentioned it before, so you could make the decision to feed it to your baby or not.
with the fruit thing those levels are extremely low compared to actual wine so it’s still worrisome to feed a baby the food with real wine in it
It's weird she didn't say anything till after but if you don't like it that's your decision.
I'm confused about what caffeine withdrawal has to do with the cooked wine, though.
@Bella Yes, absolutely. She mentioned that the amount of wine added to the spinach dish was small, and I'm also assuming that baby had a small amount of the dish. So the trace amount baby likely took in is why I commented that it isn't something I would 'personally' worry about. Everyone is different and she is perfectly entitled to not wanting her baby to have any amount of wine.
Yeah, I would be upset for not knowing beforehand. I totally get the 40 weeks of suffering for someone else to do something I don’t want my baby to have.
I would be annoyed that I wasn't told before she ate it, but equally the amount of alcohol consumed would be negligible so it wouldn't worry me.
I think it was a bit stupid of her but it wouldnt make me angry, I honestly dont even think I would be annoyed. It will be a negligible amount of alcohol, some of the teething products have more alcohol in it. You even say yourself you think theres no danger to baby so I sort of dont get why youre angry over it? Annoyed maybe but even then, I'm not really getting why it's a big deal, she probably just wasnt thinking (or she was but knew a dribble if wine in a whole meal is negligible) baby is 9months old, had a yummy meal and came to no harm. I wouldnt say this is someone "feeding your baby wine."
Honestly things like dirty soft play areas and other snotty noses kids would stress me far more than this would
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