lollipop for 3 month old

[Anonymous]

Would you consider giving a lollipop(dum dum) to a 3 month old child endangerment?. My sister in law(19) is always posting pictures of her 3 months old eating Popsicle, cheese puffs, milk shakes. But isn't allowing a 3 month old to hold and suck on a lollipop a huge chocking hazard?!? Am I overreacting here?

[Anonymous]

How can a 3 month old even eat cheese puffs and popsicles?

[Anonymous]

How does the 3 month old even do that?!

[Anonymous]

A three-month-old cannot eat cheese puffs or milkshakes, or hold and eat a popsicle or lollipop.

[Anonymous]

Op here-I assume she's just sucking on them. She takes pictures of her with these things and posts them to fb all the time. I private messaged her and very nicely explained how dangerous giving baby these sweets before her gut is ready can be and she told me "mamas always know best." Then today she posted the picture with the lollipop and I just couldn't help but be afraid that the baby would choke on it.

[Anonymous]

No, now you do know about going to the dentist and what not.

[Anonymous]

Teen Mom stuff

[Anonymous]

Op again-the baby is very awakardly holding the stick to the lollipop with both hands(I assume it was placed in her hands like that) and her mouth is on top of the lollipop.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like really stupid parenting decisions, but then, so is having a baby at 19 with those kind of decision making skills

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would you consider giving a lollipop(dum dum) to a 3 month old child endangerment?. My sister in law(19) is always posting pictures of her 3 months old eating Popsicle, cheese puffs, milk shakes. But isn't allowing a 3 month old to hold and suck on a lollipop a huge chocking hazard?!? Am I overreacting here?

Your SIL is a moron. Whether or not she's posing a baby with this food or actually feeding her the food, it's stupid and unsafe.

Where is your brother in the mix?

[Anonymous]

Posing child with food is silly, not endangerment. There's no way a three month old is actually eating any of those things.

[Anonymous]

It's my sister in law on my husbands side. His brother is one of those adults that has a learning disability that never was diagnosed as a child.

[Anonymous]

That is some crappy stuff to give to a baby and it's certainly not advised by anyone I know. However, people have been feeding their very young babies all sorts of weird things since the dawn of time. You talk to people from other cultures and you'd be surprised at what they will put in a 3-month-old's mouth. So while I agree with you that it's unhealthy for the baby, I don't think it's child endangerment. Yes, the baby can choke but she probably won't. She's just licking those items, not trying to swallow them whole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Posing child with food is silly, not endangerment. There's no way a three month old is actually eating any of those things.

+1. I don't think a three month old has the skills to get the thing completely in her mouth, so I wouldn't worry about choking. Also, if she's doing this stuff now, I'm sure she'll be feeding her five or six month old cheetos and pepsi, so I'd save my concern (and nagging) for then, when it really matters. Pick your battles, you know?

[Anonymous]

Poor baby. What a future. I dread to think about it.