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Unwanted food for baby

PoppySeedWindsorPoppySeedWindsor member
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So I've got a 5 month old niece, a 4 month old nephew and my 3 month old darling Merri. We're all meeting up in August for a family reunion. The other two are already on cereal...and the nephew is already getting solids placed in front of him.

I've had my parents and multiple family members say they're going to give Merri food EVEN THOUGH this is DIRECTLY AGAINST what we want. I'm SO STOKED to be headed home, but I'm nervous about leaving her with people. Both hubster and I have shit ass touchy stomachs and we want to set Merri up the best we can for a good tummy future.

I'm not afraid of being blunt with my family...but when I do, I tend to do overdo it. How might you handle this??
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  • moonsparklesmoonsparkles member
    Thirding pps. Also in the same boat as you re bluntness. I over do it too.
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  • RedDawnsRevengeRedDawnsRevenge member
    LalaMama81 said:

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    I wouldn't leave her alone with them.

    This. If I thought they would completely ignore me on something of this importance, they wouldn't get to babysit.
    I totally thought I could trust my mom to watch DD1. We were remodeling the kitchen and needed her out of the house while DH worked on it and I was at work. Half way through my shift she sends me a picture of DD1 eating ice cream! (And sitting in a nasty fosters freeze high chair!) she was 14months old and had never had ice cream. When I got home at midnight she was still bouncing off the walls.
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  • AshleypixieAshleypixie member
    Why would giving her food be such a big thing for them? They've actually brought this up more than once? My MIL basically does every frickin thing we are against and there's no such thing as being too blunt with her. If they have their feelings a little hurt about not being able to feed someone else's baby food, not your problem. It just means they won't be alone with her.
     






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  • ricekezricekez member
    Even older pediatricians believe in waiting to 6 months and skipping rice cereal (our ped is probably ~50 and anti-rice cereal). I'd not let Merri alone around the crazies in your family and keep her away from the baby food.

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  • JessimaxJessimax member
    I know how you feel, in a month or so I am going to have to beat my father off with a stick as far as giving solid foods.
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  • SoulTerminationSoulTermination member
    edited July 2014
    My MIL is telling us to give A rice cereal at night to help her sleep longer. "Just a watery teaspoon or so, to help her stay full for longer than a couple hours so you can sleep." Yeah, she'll be fuller longer, but that's because her digestive tract isn't mature enough to break down something like that yet! Really sad part is, DH and I are so short on sleep during this leap that I'm thinking of testing it out to see how she tolerates it. We're both hoping she doesn't have her daddy's poor stomach. =/
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  • allyandmike24allyandmike24 member
    This thread ended up being an unexpected delight. 

    Good luck, Poppy. It's so weird what people fixate on with babies. My MIL always wants to feed the baby a bottle despite the million times I try to explain to her how difficult it is for me to pump and how there are tons of other ways to bond with her. 

    My own mom is terrified of BLW because she is sure that LO will choke to death. She's said on multiple occasions that if she's sitting for LO she'll mash up any food we leave "just to be safe". 
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  • Abcollins57Abcollins57 member
    @SoulTermination‌ the pediatrician advised us to thicken LO's bottles with rice cereal to help with his reflux, so I got excited thinking he may actually sleep a little better also. It completely backfired when it made him so gassy, DH and I had to stay up all night alternating who held him while the other slept a bit.
    My advice: try it during the day first so it doesn't ruin whatever nighttime sleep you may be getting!
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  • Alana1977Alana1977 member
    Ugh people who obsess themselves with whAt and when other people's babies eat drive me nuts! I have had so many people tell my husband and I that our baby should be on solids because THEIR babies started at three months, that my husband has now started questioning why we are not yet introducing solids. I have to keep reminding him that our baby is breastfed and the recommendation is six months and no we are not starving him by waiting.
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  • chirico3chirico3 member
    My MIL told me her dad insisted on giving her 6 months old a very small piece of watermelon. Very small. Despite her telling him to not do it.
    Well, the baby (husband's brother) had a terrible diarrhea and had to go to the hospital b/c he was getting dehydrated.

    So, stay with your baby and don't live her to people you know will give her food. You don't know how her stomach will react, you don't want to deal with a sick baby!

     

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  • PoppySeedWindsorPoppySeedWindsor member
    Thanks for the input everyone!
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  • sking72sking72 member
    I wouldn't let anyone hold the baby and when people complain point out that no one was going to respect your parenting choices. But im pretty spiteful, don't know if you want to be that dramatic.
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  • PoppySeedWindsorPoppySeedWindsor member
    I'm down to let people hold her. We live in KY and this is the first time they get to meet her! I definitely think I'll just have myself or my husband in view at all times so we can make sure people don't give her food...especially when the drinking begins. 
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