What is with the food pushers, anyway?

KonrsBride · November 2008

Why is it that every time a person sees a baby of a certain age (that age might be different based on the person) they feel the need to shove food in that baby's mouth!?

"Lets see if she likes cranberries!" Well I'll tell you that she probably will choke on the skin. Seriously. Take your hand away from our baby's mouth.

My DH had to say "NO" in a voice meant for a toddler to get this man away from DD.

Carmell226 · November 2008

I actually had to grab DH's Aunts hand from going in DDs mouth, my ILs ALWAYS try to feed her crap I just don't get it!

teach2183 · November 2008

I have not experienced that at all. DH's aunt did ask what we brought for DD to eat on Thanksgiving, to make sure we brought her something festive. She was glad to hear we brought sweet potatoes. DD also started crying when others would touch her (stranger anxiety), so no one really got close enough to feed her. I find it strange that people would think it's okay to feed a child that can't ask for food something.

Temp174496125006552 · November 2008

Really? That's so out of line. Seriously, people are ridiculous.

We haven't had any of that (knocking wood), but anyone who tries to shove food in Ben's face will promptly get a piece of my mind.

KonrsBride · November 2008

My DH's family is really bad about this. They act hurt and offended because we wouldn't let them give our daughter food that they think she'd "like". If you want to feed her the food we brought, fine. But don't come near with frosting, kthxbai.

olivia_eve · November 2008

Yup, DH's family kept wanting to give her frosting at her baptism party. Yeah, great idea, let's give her whipped cream frosting, which contains both milk and tons of sugar. It's especially a good idea because she only started solids a week and a half ago. We had to tell them multiple times that she wasn't going to have any, and they acted like we were party poopers.

7/04Bride · November 2008

Who was the man who your DH said "no" to??

mrszimm · November 2008

olivia_eve:
Yup, DH's family kept wanting to give her frosting at her baptism party. Yeah, great idea, let's give her whipped cream frosting, which contains both milk and tons of sugar. It's especially a good idea because she only started solids a week and a half ago. We had to tell them multiple times that she wasn't going to have any, and they acted like we were party poopers.

This happened at my DD's christening party w/ DH's aunt. DD was only 3 months old!!!! When I got upset she told me, "Oh, honey, she'll be alright. A little frosting never hurt anyone."

I get so sick of his whole family acting like I'm a fuddy-duddy all because I won't give my baby crap her tummy can't handle.

LoriFalce · November 2008

We haven't had this (except for that one instance with the pediatrician and the lollipop). But I think that might be in part because we're not really rigid about his food. By the time people wanted to start trying things with him, he'd usually had it already, so it wasn't a big deal. There wasn't really anything at Thanksgiving that was a big shock to him. He's had turkey, green beans, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, rolls, stuffing, all before. And I canned my own cranberry sauce and cooked and froze pumpkin for the freezer, so he's been eating that almost daily for about two weeks.

NikkiBenzo · November 2008

My family (NOT my DH's family, but MY family) does this to me all the time! We are Italian and they want to feed her meatballs, etc. since she was 5mo. On Thanksgiving I was the butt of everyone's jokes because I didn't want her to have ice cream. I caught my mom trying to sneak my DD ice cream. The rest of the day they were busting my balls about sugar. Saying things like, "Don't give Jordan water, it might have sugar in it." I was like STFU already. Finally I said look, "You all had the chance to raise us and feed us what you wanted, now let me feed my daughter what I want. Things have changed since we were little and I would rather not introduce her to crap until she is older!"

IckyThump · November 2008

I just experienced this on Thanksgiving. DH's aunt was holding DS at the dinner table. I was only half paying attention when I saw my MIL's head whip around in my direction, so I immediately turned and saw DH's uncle spooning mashed potatoes into DS's mouth. He had just started solids on Sunday and has only had sweet potatoes. I said, "Um, NO", but it was too late.

I wasn't pissed so much at the fact that DS had some mashed potatoes as much as I was at the fact that he thought nothing of shoving food into my six month old's mouth without asking. He's kind of a douche and made some remark about DS needing "real food". Luckily DH came back to the table before things got ugly.

Jaimers375 · November 2008

Glad I'm not the only one who had this happen. My aunt was feeding DS at the other table, she was giving him his jar of food but also sneaking him some mashed potatoes, I don't really mind, since he's had both before, but ugh....good thing it wasn't the green beans that were cooked with almonds.

KonrsBride · November 2008

7/04Bride:
Who was the man who your DH said "no" to??

Long story short, he's an uncle of my DH. He's about 4 years older than DH and is married to DH's uncle's ex-wife. All in all, a very nice man, but really loves to shove food into babies mouths. Last year he gave a 6 month old pumpkin pie with cool whip, so my DH and I were on high alert with him.

rach9305 · November 2008

Ha, my SIL was trying to give DS a sip of coke, and I walked up right as she was putting it to DS mouth. I said "umm" are you trying to give DS coke? and she was like oh it's diet coke, and he's just smelling it..yeah right!!! I wanted to say DIET is worse than regular coke!!! but I just walked away...Seriously??!!??

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