A viral TikTok about chocolate cake has commenters chatting about baby boundaries
Here’s a pop quiz. You’re holding someone else’s four-month-old baby at a birthday party where chocolate cake is available. Do you:
A) Feed the baby some cake?
B) Ask the parents if it’s OK to feed their baby anything?
C) Do nothing?
If you answered A, this mom on TikTok would like a word. She’s currently going viral on the video platform for sharing a story about that exact situation, and it’s a great reminder to not feed other people’s babies, especially if you haven’t checked with their parents first.
Mom Katie explained in the video that she was visiting a friend with her husband and baby when someone else at the house, who was holding the four-month-old, decided to give her a taste of chocolate cake.
@katieandariam Am I overreacting, though? 💔🙄🙈 #babyboundaries #babytok #fypシ
♬ original sound – Katie Moudallal
“I grabbed my baby, stormed out of the house, haven’t spoken to this person since,” Katie explained.
And OK, maybe storming out of the house was a bit much, but Katie also explained that she’s been fending off people in her life who keep telling her she overreacted and that someone else feeding her baby without her permission was “not a big deal.”
“The reason I’m so mad about it is because I felt like a precious moment had been taken away from us and just for the expense of, like, someone’s laughter,” she explained. “On top of that chocolate cake has like, sugar, dairy, caffeine, all these things in that I want to control with my baby. Like that is my boundaries, what I set and nobody should overstep that.”
Um, yeah, duh. A baby’s parents are the only people who should decide when new foods get introduced. On top of being a precious milestone for many parents, it’s also dangerous—what if Katie’s baby had had an allergic reaction to an ingredient in the cake?!
Many of the comments saw reason and supported Katie’s position.
“I would be SWINGING no solids are going into my babies mouth until she’s 6 months,” one person wrote. Another added, “This is absolutely crossing a boundary. Stand your ground!”
Though there were definitely people who agreed with Katie’s principle, if not necessarily her approach.
“That person probably didn’t mean any harm, just make it a learning lesson and say, please don’t feed my baby without my permission,” another commenter said.
The important thing here is pretty straightforward, though: Don’t feed someone else’s baby without checking with them first. Just don’t.
