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@grizz: my MIL asked my LO at 7 weeks old if I'd let her have a taste of whipped cream or anything yet. DH's birthday was this week and she asked me if I was going to give LO, at nearly 10 weeks old, any icing or ice cream. Then when she was near LO she called to me to look and pretended to feed LO some ice cream. Maybe my MIL is related to your FIL!
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@Mrs. Twine: hahaha, I'll just keep LO in the house till age 7
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@grizz: Yes. Always.
MY parents are the worst offenders. They always say they're "pretending" to give her drinks, bread, food, etc. My mom loves to tease her (and everyone's dogs) by putting food and moving it around right up in the face. So she can reach and take a bite if she tried. Even when DH says no, they keep putting stuff to her mouth saying it's "just pretend." My SIL let her taste watermelon and I was okay with a lick, but she kept trying to feed her more and more and teach her to bite (at 4 1/2 months).
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@grizz: I would go crazy! I'm a vegetarian (and we plan on raising our baby as a vegetarian), and we ALWAYS get comments from friends/family about how they are going to feed the baby meat. That's like me telling a religious person that I'm going to expose their child to satanic things (not that I think meat is the devil, haha, it's just the best thing I can think of). So weird!
Thankfully, I have some food allergies, and I might just lie (and say baby has them too) to keep people from freely feeding her/him.
People are the WORST!
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Dude... Your inlaws... all I can say is you're a saint!!
My inlaws always joke that they're going to feed him pizza, cookies, etc. it's either that or I get to hear about how I should give him formula. Or quips about my kitchen being a mess. (It's not a mess). Sigh. If they actually tried to feed him, I'd lose it.
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DH's Gram gave E three chocolate chip cookies on our beach trip this year. He was 10.5 months old so it wasn't the worst thing except it was 3 of them (and not those little mini ones, either) and we hadn't given him any sweets yet...we wanted his birthday cake to be the first!
If it was any other family member I would have pitched a fit but she's pretty much untouchable. I had to grit my teeth and smile.
I can't imagine anyone trying to give a three month old anything but BM or formula though! Way too young!
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...I gave a friend's 11 month old a piece of fruit once (some type of melon, I think). Granted, the kid was STARING at me eating it and making chewing motions, so I asked my friend if it was ok if I gave her some and she said yes. Pretty sure the kid ate more than I did, lol.
Besides that one time, its NEVER crossed my mind to give a baby any kind of food, especially one so young. ESPECIALLY without asking. Yikes.
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Only the inlaws have - they gave LO some ice cream as soon as I left the room, came back and LO was spitting it out and apparently "she grabbed it and fed it to herself" - yeah because a 3 month old can do that! They try to sneak her biscuits and sweet things when they don't think I'm looking which is one of the reasons why they don't babysit. LO is 11 months old and I'm getting more relaxed but I don't see why they need to only feed her sweet foods!
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Oh my gosh, yes!
I have a 4 week old, and were having birthday cake with whipped cream on it on the weekend, and my FIL took a big scoop of it on his finger and said he was going to let her taste it. I kinda crapped my pants a little, and told him absolutely not. Her stomach can't handle cow's milk and sugar at not even a month old, sorry.
So then he said that when he baby sits her and mom's not watching she can have whatever she wants. Annnnnnd that's why they won't be allowed unsupervised visits until they can follow my rules (and quite frankly some common sense).
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So apparently this is a common FIL thing! Mine has been campaigning to babysit, but I'm going to go ahead and file that under 'Never happening'.
MY parents are the worst offenders. They always say they're "pretending" to give her drinks, bread, food, etc. My mom loves to tease her (and everyone's dogs) by putting food and moving it around right up in the face. So she can reach and take a bite if she tried. Even when DH says no, they keep putting stuff to her mouth saying it's "just pretend." My SIL let her taste watermelon and I was okay with a lick, but she kept trying to feed her more and more and teach her to bite (at 4 1/2 months).
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