no its not a dumb question - croup is when the upper respirtory system becomes inflamed, and babies/kids have difficulty breathing. It is usually caused by a cold, and has the trademark barking cough. It sounds horrible. and it is worse if there is stridor as well, which is a gasping whistling sound made when they are breathing in, between coughs. You can see their chest gets sucked in. Its pretty scary - and most people don't consider it serious, but it is especially when there is stridor involved. Babies/kids will be hospitalised then for treatment. Ironically it usually occurs in the middle of the night, and when the weather changes dramatically, and in the day, they can be as right as rain! Until I had experienced it with Nat, I didn't think croup was that big a deal - I now know differently.

And yep, AJP is right there is baby yogurt- Vaali (i think thats how you spell it) make one, or the other option is "grow" your own. I know several mums who are doing that.

BTW kim, well done on making some baby food. Its pretty hard to stuff it up. i usually just steam a whole lot of a type of food, then puree - mash it up then freeze it in ice cube trays. The cube is about a tablespoon. once they are frozen, I pop them out into ziplock bags, and take out as many as I need for a meal. At the moment Aston is having about 3 cubes per meal.

AJP how did the avocado go after being frozen?