- Pregnancy
- Baby & Toddler
- Parents
- Getting Pregnant
- Baby Names
- Product Reviews
-
Registry
- Community
-
More
Want a personalized experience?
Download the free app
Maryland Babies
Oy.
On Tuesday I just caught my mom before she put "just a drop" of honey on DS's waffle. Today I get an email that he ate "half a peanut butter sandwich!" for lunch. Holy jeebus. He's fine - thank goodness - but this generational gap is going to give me a heart attack.
Anyone have any links to a short and sweet summary of age-based dietary restrictions that I could forward on? 
This discussion has been closed.
Re: Oy.
Wholesome baby food has lists of what foods are appropriate, as well as, a forbidden foods list. I think they are a little conservative, but their lists are clear, concise, and easy to read.
https://wholesomebabyfood.momtastic.com/
Yikes! Talk about scary. That was one of our issues once DS started on table foods, too - everyone wanted to "just give him a little taste" w/o thinking about the ingredients in the food. Luckily, we managed to avoid any issues, and now that he's 1, pretty much everything is fine. We're still policing for anything w/ peanuts b/c my sister has a severe allergy, so our pedi has asked us to wait until DS turns 2 to introduce nuts. We've made it VERY clear to anyone who feeds him anything that it cannot have peanuts in any form in it, and luckily everyone has been very cautious about that so far.
PP's suggestion of using wholesomebabyfood.com is a good one - I agree that they are very conservative, but in this case, it's probably better to be overly cautious w/ the list you give her rather than being too flexible!
... every single day of forever.
Oy is right. My mom looked incredulous when I told her not to feed DS stuff with peanuts in it yet (he was pretty small at the time). I suppose things are just very different now than 30+ years ago. She also didn't believe me when I said babies sleep on their backs now, haha.
wholesome baby food is a good idea, I would forward her that.
Unless there's a history of food allergies in your family, I don't think there's a big issue w/ alot this and IIRC, recent research has shown that banning all these foods or delaying them hasn't really yielded much benefit.
Fair enough. I'd seen the Wholesome Baby Food site and honestly thought it was a little liberal since it contemplated PB as early as 6 months. In all fairness I probably overreacted since DS will be 11 months next week and as far as I know we don't have any peanut allergies in the family. If I'd had it my way his first bite would have been in a hospital parking lot "just in case".
lovelylittleworld
BFP#2 1/12/12 ~ Missed M/C 8w2d
Kathryn's 100% correct on this - we've spent a lot of time discussing it w/ our pedi b/c of the aforementioned situation w/ my sister's severe peanut allergy. Our practice has 7 doctors, and of the 2 that we see regularly, our "usual" is the one that asked us to hold off until 2, but the other that we see (who also happens to be a family friend) is the one that just spent time at DS's 1 yr checkup discussing the latest research on delaying introduction to allergens. Of course, different pedis will hold different opinions on the matter, but he was telling us that many are now going w/ what current research is indicating and not worrying about when the potential allergen is introduced, figuring that if LO is going to react, they're going to react no matter the age, and that being a certain age won't necessarily help or harm the situation.
If nothing else, at least you know you don't need to worry about peanuts anymore!
... every single day of forever.
Here's to that!!
lovelylittleworld
BFP#2 1/12/12 ~ Missed M/C 8w2d
Either way though - your mom should be following your cues on this. I know what the data "says" but I was still kinda leery of peanuts and shell fish.
No doubt. My parents are actually pretty fabulous about following our guidelines on everything. This was my mistake - no honey/PB are such givens to me that I didn't even think to spell it out for them. Now that his foods are expanding far beyond breast milk the conversation just needed to be had. She has the wholesome foods link now and we talked about restrictions again last night. Problem solved. I just need to remember the generational gaps and be more explicit about these things.
I mean...my grandmother raised all three of her kids on cow's milk and Karo syrup!! (Whole milk for the boys, skim for the "delicate little flower" that was my aunt.) The thought makes me cringe - but times have just changed....
lovelylittleworld
BFP#2 1/12/12 ~ Missed M/C 8w2d
re generational differences - a few months ago, I mentioned DD's increasingly picky eating habits and how she will sometimes not eat at all at meal, etc. I'm not panicking about it, but eh, I'm aware of the situation and moderately concerned. Two weeks later, DD spent the night at my mom's house. The next day, when I pick her up
Mom - I don't know what you were talking about her not eating - she ate like a horse here!
Me - oh, wow, great! What did she eat?
Mom - she had 2 bowls of macaroni and cheese (kraft) and 2 bowls of ice cream.
Me - smacking head!
I used the guide from wholesomebabyfood too and put it as well as big sticky notes on the fridge noting the really off liimits foods.
That said, when Aiden was about 10 months old, he pulled a jar of peanut butter out of the recycling bin and starting licking it.
miscarriage on 11/26/09 at 5w6d
Our doc knows how up-tight I am with this kind of stuff, so she told me to put the PB on DD's skin a couple different times before feeding it to her. Kids with really bad allergies will usually have a skin reaction. After the third time of DD walking around with PB on her upper arm I finally let her eat some.
Side note- It was hilarious watching her try to lick it off her arm.
My mother still thinks I am "mean" for not using bumpers.
She follows what I say, but if she disagrees she'll shake her head and say, "It's a wonder you kids survived!"
If it makes you feel better Rags, my MIL gave DD grapes and didn't cut them. Hello, choking hazard! I cut them into fourths.
I also found out DD most likely doesn't have a peanut allergy when I gave her Chick-Fil-A nuggets and found out after the fact that they are fried in peanut oil. Oops...