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Absolutely not! Grandparents are there to provide another loving adult that children can bond with and learn from. Grandparents are NOT there to undermine the parents. [/quote]

I did not say undermine.  grandparents are there to be loving adults,  which can include the occasional spoiling...

F me....mashed potatoes are now solid foods... for the love of god....

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Hey genius...mashed potatoes usually contain butter, milk and/or cream. Babies that age may well have an allergy to cows milk. They are only supposed to have breast milk or formula until a doctor says otherwise at a 9 month checkup.

Idiot.[/quote]

Okay.  I'm of the "respect the parents' wishes,"  but you're going a bit overboard here. Avoidance of cow's milk in the first year is one of those "abundance of caution" things.  A steady diet might be harmful (though there were kids fed this way not so long ago), but an occasional taste is very unlikely to do harm - kind of equivalent to the occasional car ride.

Some parents use rules like these as a means to control their children, other people, etc. It can get pretty crazy.

--PP grandma who has to turn off the wifi.

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NP - Actually, is the most common food allergy/intolerance in infants. The proteins pass through to breastmilk, hence why I'm now on a milk free diet for my son who is 3 months old.  It also is one of the things that takes the longest to get out of your systems. Most outgrow it by 1 year old. I can assure you I would be pissed at anyone feeding him food without my ok. I don't need a return of his raw, weeping diaper rash and reflux - and he only has a fairly mild intolerance in the range of reactions. [/quote]

This. What do you say now, Grammy? OK to make baby suffer because you know better than a doctor?[/quote]

How dumb do you think I am?  Obviously if the child has a know sensitivity to X you don't feed X to him.  I'm talking about parents who adopt a host of rules in the absence of a problem.  Like, no dairy till 1 year.  Or no wifi ever.[/quote]

Here's how dumb that I think you are:
You doooooo realize that there is no way of telling whether someone has an allergy/sensitivity until the first time they try something, yes? THAT IS WHY you don't feed infants things they might be sensitive to, because they are tiny and delicate and there's NO NEED to put them through suffering just so grandma can watch baby eat mashed potatoes.

NO BENEFIT to a two-month-old eating mashed potatoes. POSSIBLE HARM could be done. So--because of common effing sense and doctors' recommendations, normal/sane/smart people don't feed infants mashed potatoes![/quote]

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