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Question by A_New_Grandma:
Nana forced preemie newborn (less than 9 lbs at the time) to suck on a lollipop.?
I just came across a video of my daughter in law’s easy minded mother, that showed her forcing a lollipop into my grandson’s mouth and beaming as he was sucking on it. He was born two months premature, and was less than 3 mos. old at the time, but basically his digestive system was more like a 3 week old and he weighed less than 9 pounds.

I used to babysit my grandson overnight a LOT, many time 3 days straight. I noticed that whenever he was over at the other grandparents for the day that he was a completely different child when he came back home.

He was very irritated and agitated, full of gas, crying a lot, had a hard time sleeping, etc. etc.

I asked my DIL what went on over there, as when he was here I never had any problems like those. I continually asked if they were possibly feeding him anything he should not have (i.e. giving him tastes of their food, feeding him baby food, etc.) and was told that she specifically told NOT to give him anything so she did not think they were. But then again, she was given baked beans at 3 days of age, her brother was put on whole milk at 3 days (because formula was too expensive) and a one month old in the family was being given pieces of chicken nuggets, Dimetapp was routinely used on most babies in the family after shots were given (to help them sleep) so there was no telling what they were doing to/with him.

I kept track of how he did whenever he was over there for the day and finally told my son that there was definitely something going on, it was NOT just a coincidence that he came home a completely different baby. EVERY TIME he was over there he came home distressed. EVERY SINGLE TIME. She then told me that maybe it was just because he may be over exhausted because he was not getting naps because too many people were always handling him, etc.

Well, the other day I was given a video of him that was taken back in May, showing the other grandmother forcing a lollipop into the babies mouth. Even when he turned his head, she would continually put the sucker back in his mouth, and she was very proud of what she was doing.

What person in there right mind would decide to have a less than 9 pound preemie suck on a lollipop? I just cannot being to comprehend that. And if they were doing that, it certainly makes me wonder about what other stupid things they were doing to that poor little helpless, defenseless newborn baby. She may very well have just given him teaspoons of sugar, as that is all a lollipop is made of.

Nearly every member of that family (both sides) have some kind of problem and many have asthma attacks that are caused by food allergies. Gee, I cannot envision why.

Whenever I expressed my concern over them doing something completely stupid I was told that “oh, they did that with all the children and we turned out fine.” What? No, they did not turn out FINE, they may be ALIVE, but that’s basically about it.

Has anyone heard of people doing this at that age? And what kind of problems can overloading a newborn with sugar cause?

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