Peanut Butter

lindseystans

Our ped said I can now give LO peanut butter. What has y'all's ped said? I'm too scared to. What if she has a reaction!? 

princesses1979

I am really surprise that your ped said that because most will say wait until they turns a year. But they all are different, but go with your guts just incase, also do you have anyone in your family with  allergies or allergic peanuts

ashleytiff

We don't have any allergies in our family so I've given my guy PB and berries and he's been fine. He loves strawberries

AKOL0

At her 6 month appointment, the doctor said they changed the start age to 6 months for peanut butter. However, she really wanted us to wait until 9 months to start. My LO doesn't turn 9 months for 5 more days. I've been thinking about starting then, but I'll probably still wait to closer to 10 even though nobody in the family has any nut allergies. 

cls2015

Apparently the thinking about giving babies peanut butter is changing.  Recent studies show that introducing peanut butter in infancy reduces the likelihood of developing an allergy.  It is thought by many now to be a good first food.

ive been thinking about starting DD with peanut butter for a while now, but my husband has been away a lot.  I really want him to be here...just in case.  I think we'll try later this week when he's back home.

sgb721

We gave our daughter peanut butter and almond butter around 6.5 months. No family history of nut or peanut allergy.

If you are nervous give it to her during a week day during office hours so you can call the pedi if you suspect a minor allergy. I've heard of some moms with a distant family history of allergy giving it to their kids in the hospital parking lot but  that might be overkill if there's no family history.  Some people also try putting it on baby's skin first to try and test for allergy (not sure it works that way).

Trust your gut and stick with your comfort level. You'll know when your baby is ready for it and if s/he is showing any signs of allergic reaction.

oneblessedmess

merryl79 said:

I am really surprise that your ped said that because most will say wait until they turns a year. But they all are different, but go with your guts just incase, also do you have anyone in your family with  allergies or allergic peanuts

Ours said that that guideline has changed due to further research. In a family with no history of allergy it is okay to give PB starting at 6 months; in fact research shows that babies who are introduced to PB as infants (before age 1) are less likely to develop allergies to it later. But I do agree, go with your gut. My LO hasn't had peanut butter yet.

fridley6

From reading and learning about studies recently done where babies ages 4-11months fed 4 teaspoons a week had 80% less chance of developing a peanut allergy, we decided to go with it. Allergies, especially peanut are just skyrocketing in schools now, we didn't want that for LO and she did fine and loved it! Also gave berries at 7.5 months

meq124

I had a thorough convo with my Pedi about this. I am a pediatric ICU nurse and she was a peds critical care md before going to general practice, so it was a pretty medical convo but these were her exact words regarding the study "The topic of infant feeding and allergy is quite confusing and controversial. I feel as though the recommendations change every few years. The recent study that came out in 2015 studied infants at risk of food allergy may benefit from early introduction to peanuts. The study introduced peanuts 3 times a week to infants in one group and none to the other at risk group. The early introduction reduced the peanut allergy to 3% compared to 17% in the avoidance group. The infants in the study were first tested to ensure that they were not allergic to peanuts before they were entered in the study. If they were allergic to peanuts at 3 month- 4 months, they were excluded from the study. This is a new peanut study and there are no set guidelines are out there for me to recommend with confidence. "

Her and I both lean towards the old school waiting until a year, but these things are always changing and I don't think there is any wrong way to do it as long as you are safe with it.

lindseystans

meaghanquinn said:

I had a thorough convo with my Pedi about this. I am a pediatric ICU nurse and she was a peds critical care md before going to general practice, so it was a pretty medical convo but these were her exact words regarding the study "The topic of infant feeding and allergy is quite confusing and controversial. I feel as though the recommendations change every few years. The recent study that came out in 2015 studied infants at risk of food allergy may benefit from early introduction to peanuts. The study introduced peanuts 3 times a week to infants in one group and none to the other at risk group. The early introduction reduced the peanut allergy to 3% compared to 17% in the avoidance group. The infants in the study were first tested to ensure that they were not allergic to peanuts before they were entered in the study. If they were allergic to peanuts at 3 month- 4 months, they were excluded from the study. This is a new peanut study and there are no set guidelines are out there for me to recommend with confidence. "

Her and I both lean towards the old school waiting until a year, but these things are always changing and I don't think there is any wrong way to do it as long as you are safe with it.

Very good information. Thank you! That's awesome that you're a pediatric ICU nurse, I bet you know a ton of stuff I'm trying to learn  

corndogrobot

I was worried more about choking on PB than allergies. We don't have PB allergy in either family. I was worried more about her swallowing the consistency so I gave her some peanut sauce from our Thai food. She made a sour face at first but then loved it. She makes sour faces at everything the first time she eats it... Even bananas.

kyrenora

My sister is deathly allergic to peanut butter, and we live awfully far from the hospital, so I'm planning on doing the introduction when we're at my MIL's house because a) she's a nurse and b) she lives much closer to a hospital than we do.

abbymessina

I haven't given peanut butter yet cause I'm too scared too.  A friend of mines little boy is severely allergic to nuts but he wasn't at first.  It took a few times of giving it to him for him to start having reactions to it, so it may not happen the very first time of them trying it, which is really scary to me. You think their ok with it then all of a sudden they arnt !

juliekay25

I'm terrified of allergies. My doc gave me some epi pens just in case. We live half an hour from a hospital so the pens give me some peace of mind. There's no allergies in either of our families but you just never know. So we have 4 epi pens just in case. We keep two in his diaper bag so it's always close and the other two in the medicine cabinet. Hopefully we will never need them. 

juliekay25

Ok so here's a dumb question.

how are you giving lo peanut butter? Like on toast or what? I give just plain pieces of toast and wondered if I could put a little peanut butter on it. 

oneblessedmess

juliekay25 said:

Ok so here's a dumb question.

how are you giving lo peanut butter? Like on toast or what? I give just plain pieces of toast and wondered if I could put a little peanut butter on it. 




STUCK IN THE BOX

Yup we started out with a thin layer of PB spread on toast. Yesterday I gave her baked apples and put a little PB on that too.

NewMumzy25

I put a bit of peanut butter on his banana chunks he eats and tried it at my in laws cause we also live 30 min away from a hospital so If he does react I want it to be in an easy to get to a hospital place went good and he loved it lol.