I was researching finger foods and came accross this. All I can say is read the 5th comment, WTF???!!! Is this woman an idiot?
Last I heard was you should not give a baby peanut butter, ever!!!! Or dairy....ugh.
http://www.momcentral.com/chat/forum.as p?id=11970
Last I heard was you should not give a baby peanut butter, ever!!!! Or dairy....ugh.
http://www.momcentral.com/chat/forum.as



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I can't imagine giving him all that crap!
Peanut butter is a no no before one year of age, some reccomend waiting until 2-3 years of age especially if there is a family history of allergies.
I had also heard 3 years until a child is old enough to have PB, regardless of allergies.
We will delay meats for a few years because hubby is allergic to red meat to the point he can't even eat things with beef broth in it or any sort of biproducts from beef.
I have heard mixed reports on the PB thing, but even I - and I am very liberal in what I will allow Linnea to have - won't let her near the stuff until she's at least two. At least.
The no dairy thing isn't "no dairy for a year", it's "no cow's milk for a year". The advice exists largely to prevent people feeding their infants cow's milk instead of breastmilk or formula. Most babies who *can* tolerate cow's milk, unlike mine, will be ok fed small amounts of dairy - eg milk in the mashed potato, a little cheese on the tomato sauce, that sort of thing. Many children are also fed Petit Filous, but that weirds me out, personally.
And I can't imagine deliberately feeding my baby anything that made her gag. If she says she's not ready for it, I *believe* her.
He also said that 80% of babies tolerate cow's milk at 10mo, and 97% tolerate it at 12mo, so that is part of the reason they tell parents to wait, although the main reason is so they won't substitute it for breastmilk or formula. I don't see a reason to introduce cow's milk at all, personally. Why give her cow's milk when we have perfectly good people milk? I guess the only reason would be so she'll be used to it when she self weans, but that sounds stupid to me.
My 11mo dd loves cheese-it is her favorite food. Mine, too, actually. I guess she had cheese for the first time at about 9mo.
Peanut butter, though, we're going to wait on until she's older than two.
I reference this page before introducing a new food:
http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/so
Hot dogs?? PB&J???? Spaghettios???!!!
But seriously, how stupid can a person be to let an 8-month-old eat hot dogs? Even the tiniest piece of hot dog can become lodged in the throat and then swell. That's what hot dogs DO - they plump up! "Hey, let me shove an expanding food down my kid's throat and see what happens!"