Message still not getting through this is what I heard today!!

[sweetkitty]

BFs sister has 8 month old DS apparently he doesn't like milk from a bottle and won't drink from a sippy cup so on her friends suggestion she buys him Fruit Shoots and he drinks mainly these now! Also my friend was saying his proud father was giving him a rusk at 8 weeks old saying "it says on the box from 4 months onwards but your 8 weeks how clever are you?"

I was so shocked but it kind of reiterates that women listen more to their mums etc than government advice, round here there seems to be the consensus that babies need as much food as possible shoved into them as soon as possible. So many times I have had to stop my mother shovelling buttons or lucozade into DD1.

[Berries]

fruit shoots - I won't let my dds (10 & 8) have those very often

[Radley]

OMG fruit shoots and rusks.

dd2 refused milk in any way shape or form from being 3 months old, and under guidance of a top heart surgeon said that if the only way to get calcium in her is to have yoghurts then so be it, and we also had to put her on cows milk, but I wouldn't have dreamed giving her fruit shoot or rusk at that age, saying that i know someone who gave her son crushed up rusks in his bottle when he was 4 weeks to try and help him sleep through.

[sweetkitty]

I know Fruit Shoots are full of crap have you read the ingredient list? Makes me laugh when they say no added sugar on them but are full of artificial sweeteners and preservatives instead probably only 5% fruit as well.

OK for a treat once in a while but I think she is giving him up to 6 a day!!! And the cost? Must be way more than a carton of fresh orange juice.

[starlover]

he actually drinks fruit shoots? or drinks milk from a fruit shoot bottle?
that would make more sense... won't take bottle or cup, so they use something else?

why would she give him expensive fruit shoots over regular cheapo squash? not advocating giving 8m olds squash... but you see where i'm coming from?

[hunkermunker]

[FairyMum]

Perhaps thinks fruit shoots are full of fruit. Counts towards one a day?

[sweetkitty]

No Fruit Shoots instead of milk because he doesn't like it, they must think he doesn't need milk as he's been on solids forever, don't think he would drink cheapo squash from a cup although see your point why not put fruit juice in a fruit shoots bottle?

Knew you would shudder Hunker makes me shudder too I got told I was depriving DD for not giving her chocolate before a year old.

This is sad but one of the reasons I will not ask my Mother to look after the DDs is that she would give them all sorts of crap food as soon as I was out the door just to spite me.

[prettybird]

That explains the Scottish tooth decay!

[expatinscotland]

I will not allow my dd to have ANY beverage like Fruit Shoots.

[sweetkitty]

True prettybird after the lucozade fiasco (my mother trying to give DD1 a taste to see her reaction wtf?) I told her about tooth decay etc and she said your cousins DS had to have most of his baby teeth pulled out as they were all rotten from drinking cola.

[prettybird]

... and she still tried give your dd lucozade? !

Have to admit that ds (5.5) does get fruit shoots and the odd treat of Irn Bru (less than once a week) and has coke when we are having lunch out. But those are infrequesnt "treats".

He normally gets diluting juice, or apple juice drunk with a straw.

But he does still have a full set of perfect baby teeth. :)

[prettybird]

... and she still tried give your dd lucozade? !

Have to admit that ds (5.5) does get fruit shoots and the odd treat of Irn Bru (less than once a week) and has coke when we are having lunch out. But those are infrequesnt "treats".

He normally gets diluting juice, or apple juice drunk with a straw.

But he does still have a full set of perfect baby teeth. :)

[Bugsy2]

A child drinking the occasional Fruit Shoot - no problem but a baby having Fruit Shoots as its main source of liquid nourishment is soooooooooooooooooo bad.
When I hear stuff like this, I think that maybe people really are too stupid to cook vegetables!

[prettybird]

SOmetimes you do wonder at the iginorance of some people.

And this is the result:(:

According to the BBC "Children in Scotland continue to have Europe's highest rate of tooth decay, according to research...... a quarter of Scotland's under-fives suffer 75% of the country's dental decay problems.........background was also a factor, with children from the most deprived areas three times less likely to have decay-free mouths at the age of five than those from wealthier areas. "

[TheBlonde]

Some health professional advice is crap too - friend was told to give her 3 mth old baby flat coke as babe has the vomit etc bug !!

[prettybird]

I've done that - but not to a 3 month old! Ds would have been over a year.

Had to choose to ignore advice when ds had a D&V bug "not to give him milk products": as he was fully breast fed at the time, that would have meant that I would have had to starve him!

[festiveface]

but how safe is a fruit shoot bottle anyway? my ds2 had a similar drink in one of those bottles whereby the top bit of it came off.
he's 7 so it was o.k but for a baby OMG

[williamsmummy]

am really hoping that this is not true and I have seen some odd things in my time.
But a baby being fed fruit shoots............HAVE the parents got any brain cells at ALL??

[Roobie]

They've probably had too many fruit shoots themselves williamsmummy! I don't let my nearly 4yo dd have these never mind a small baby.

[Boopert]

That is disgraceful.
My ds who is 3 gets the odd Fruit Shoot maybe once a month, coke once every few months and the rest of the time water or diluted fruit juice!!!!
I would be ashamed if i were the parents....

[Tommy]

I suppose it depends on how stronmg you are to ignore your Mum's advice! My SIL has a baby and was holding out to 6m to give her solids and my Mum was poo pooing it and saying "12 weeks or 12lbs - that's when solids should start...." Felt very sorry for SIL as she doesn't ahve the guts top tell my Mum where to go... (like I do )

[Tommy]

God - I am turning into Cod with my typos....really should preview

[misdee]

no, this is a joke right? my kids like fruit shoots and do have them when they are at the hospital visiting, but i wouldnt give them to dd3 who is year old. i was desperate for a drink once and took a gulp of the orange one, it was really strong and sugery. i have tried to cut down the amount the older 2 are having them.

[cece]

Tommy 12lbs!? DS was about 3/4 weeks old when he was that weight!!!!

[williamsmummy]

yeah! my 2nd baby was 2weeks old when he was 12lbs!!
but have heard this 12 lb thingy , is old fashioned these days.