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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
Do you let your toddler eat raisins?
My DS hates them, so I never buy them, but my DH brought home a box from the store yesterday and let DD try them. She LOVED them! I'm a little hesitant about letting her eat them again though. They seem like a pretty big choking hazzard for a 20 month old (even though she did fine eating them yesterday).
Am I being ridiculous?
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Re: Do you let your toddler eat raisins?
The raisins we give DD are pretty tiny.. not sure how she'd choke on them.
Sometimes, as a special treat, she even gets chocolate (or yogurt) covered ones.
I would, but they are one of the few things DS doesn't like!
The one time I gave them to him, he moved each raisin individually into the cupholder of his high chair tray.
I'm sure they are fine, not a choking hazard, they are pretty small.
Ok, thanks everyone. She loved them, so I am going to let her have them again.
I was always very laid back about letting my kids eat anything and everything, but last year the next door neighbors of my DH's aunt lost their 3 year old grandson after he choked to death on a grape and I became very paranoid after that.
A grape is much larger.
Um, it actually never even occcured to me to give LO raisins as a snack. I personally hate them, so in my brain this means no one else likes them either.
I should really give them a try with LO. I bet he would love them, simply because I hate them and would now have to buy them.
::adds raisins to the grocery list::
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"Aren't raisins a choking hazard?
In 2010, the American Academy of Pediatrics removed raisins from their list of choking hazards because they couldn't find any reported cases of children choking on raisins"
Okay, I stand corrected.
I guess we will start trying raisins.
Glad you found that... because I was thinking "but they really aren't a choking hazzard... at least not on the list I have".
DD goes nutso for raisins, she loves her 'rainits' SOOO much and will ask for them, and if i ask if she wants oatmeal she'll pipe in with "oatmeal with rainits???"
BUT
she gets a really bad diaper rash from raisins, so i have to limit how much she gets. easier said than done considering how apeshit she goes for them.
dd ate raisins at 13 months .. the flight attendant gave me a box when we flew from SF to DC .. dd LOVED them !
just like any other food, supervision at first is key
We do, they're too small to choke.
We don't let him run around with them, mostly because he'd feed them to the dog and they're not good for dogs, at all.
My DS LOVES raisins and craisins. I didn't read all the responses, so someone may have said this, but sometimes the raisins don't digest and I find whole ones in his poop. YUM!
i was concerned for a while, too, but i've been giving her them any time we went out to eat for several months (about 6 or so??) now. i would only give her literally one raisin at a time. this kept her occupied when out, she looked forward to eating them whenever we went out (still does). now i won't give her the box, but i'll place several down at a time... i think the choking hazard is when they all glom together.
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Yes to raisins. And I'm sorry, but I agree with the PP who said you're being a little ridiculous. Raisins are small and soft - I can't imagine how they'd be a choking hazard, especially for a 20 month old.
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He's only had them twice. I did worry about them sticking together/choking too, since DS basically shovels as much food as he can into his mouth at once. That said, he seems to like them well enough but not love them, so I'll probably not give them very often, anyway. Also, our dentist is not crazy about sticky/chewy snacks, and I'm assuming they fall into that category anyway.
Good to know. I, too, was under the impression that they are a choking hazard for kids under three. I think my daughter would do fine with them, but I had been avoiding them because of the choking danger.