Oh thanks everyone, its good that our journey both times is helping, you know what they say, you learn from your mistakes
We do pretty much the same with allergy prone foods, just introduce them a bit later and keep an eye on them to notice any changes. Its usually associated with family history but there can be some randoms like my cousins son, who is allergic to egg and they don't know anyone in the family that is, poor buggers face swells up.
With egg its the same as when you are pregnant, you just need to make sure it is cooked all the way through. Scrambled egg is one of DD2's favourites now and I even managed a break through with DD1 the other night, she shared in some of my lunch and didn't even care that there was ham and chives in it, scoffed the lot DD2 has had small amount of penut butter, just on the crust of my toast and no reaction, but she won't eat it properly, seems to prefer vegemite. I do make sure I remove large pieces of nuts from things, like out of the curried sausages last night, this is because they can't chew them properly and it can be a chocking hazard. Honey I definitely wont give till after 1.
Turtle - we used to do that with DD1 just for amusement, she would pull funky faces but go back for more. I think as long as its not a regular thing it should be okay. Good for learning sour tastes too.
I was a little bit cautious of giving DD2 our dinner last night as it was curried sausages and vegies, as the sauce was a little bit spicy. So what I did was only coat the sausage and vegies in a teeny amount of sauce. She absolutely hoovered it, I think it did get a bit spicy at one stage cause she kept rubbing her face, but the whole time attempting to pick up more and shovel it. She kept going for her water bottle to. Today there was no change in her stool or behaviour so I am guessing the spicy food didn't harm her.
When we were introducing foods where there's a higher risk of allergy (egg, peanuts etc) I just made sure that i didn't offer any other new foods around that time so that I could see if there was a reaction.
Everything allergy-wise was fine until recently, when DD had satay which would have been her 4 or 5th time having peanuts - she had what I'm assuming is a reaction to the peanuts. We're having her tested to make sure, but not until February. Thought I'd just mention it because I wasn't aware that there could be no reaction the first few times and then a reaction - luckily a few of the girls on BB put me straight! I've since found out that DH's cousin's son has a peanut allergy, so maybe I should've been more cautious, but I didn't know that at the time (and even if i did I think I likely would've assumed it was indirect enough to give it a go anyway).
Scrambled egg is an absolute favourite in our house too so I'm glad that seems to be ok.
I'm going to make her some scrambled egg for breakie tomorrow then.
We're still not interested in food that much. This morning I made her a banana sandwich and it got squished up and thrown over the high chair. It seems to be more of a game at the moment. Although, she vacuums up sticks of cucumber and yells at me when I'm chopping it up! So funny!
We find DD not too fussed on scrambled or fried egg, she'll try it, but doesn't eat too much of it. Give her a sliced up boiled egg and she loves it. The only time I can be guarenteed she'll eat all a sandwich or piece of toast is if it has peanut butter on it, probably because she was so used to it in utero! We also find she loves any meat out of the slow cooker, especially chicken. I think it's easy for her to chew up, and she sits there going 'Mmmm Mmmm Mmmmm' as she eats it all.
MummaSue we can go a week with just playing with her food, and then she'll devour everything in sight for 2 days straight. I find it hard to relax about it too. Lately it's more fun to watch it fall as she lets it go over the side, or to splat it flat (we say she loves to kill all her food) with her hand over and over again on the high chair tray.
Today in a cafe, an elderly woman came up and demanded to know how old DD was. I said 8 months, and she told me she was far too young to be eating a biscuit (milk arrowroot) and she would choke and die. She almost went to take the biscuit off her when I rather sternly said 'she is fine, you sit back and watch her eat it'. Thankfully DD didn't gag while she finished it, and she apologised but still mumbled that she was too young. It was quite heated for a minute there!
I'm struggling abit at the moment. with food in general (and sleep but that's another story), it's not specifically a BLS thing. Bub gags on most things and gets very very little of anything in. I also thought she was drinking water from a cup but have noticed that she doesn't actually drink much mostly it just dribbles out again. She does't like gagging and after this has happened she won't try anymore food, even favs.
i thought by 8 months she would be getting some food in.
she is abit of a lightweight, still gaining weight but i don't want this to slow too much. She also breastfeeds alot over night- is she hungry or is it for comfort? why doesn't (can't) she sleep through? she still BFs as often as a newborn
DD2 has had small amount of penut butter, just on the crust of my toast and no reaction, but she won't eat it properly, seems to prefer vegemite. I do make sure I remove large pieces of nuts from things, like out of the curried sausages last night, this is because they can't chew them properly and it can be a chocking hazard. Honey I definitely wont give till after 1.
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