Whose introduced foods?

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What did you start with? How are you dealing with allergens? I’m a FTM and my anxiety is so high bc I’m terrified with the whole starting foods and allergen thing. Did anyone’s LO have an allergic reaction? How bad, what did you do? Any and all advice is greatly appreciated!!

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My 6 month old is eating French toast and strawberries as we speak lol Here’s a picture of the Italian wedding soup he had for dinner the other night.
We have done all the allergens, peanut butter, egg, dairy, soy, shellfish… you name it. Allergies almost essentially don’t exist at this age due to babies having an immature immune system. This is why it is so important to introduce them early and frequently so their immune system doesn’t recognize it as foreign  later on and cause a reaction. We do eggs omelet style cut into strips, we do peanut butter on toast (very thin layer cause it will make the bread sticky and that can cause choking) ****alway serve peanut butter with something such as toast or mixed into something to thin it out. It is a choking hazard due to it being so sticky*** for dairy I do shredded cheese sticks, yogurt, pretty much anything with milk, for shellfish we gave him shredded crab and for shrimp we butterflied them. Check out solidstarts.com it’ll give you info on how to serve foods safely by age.

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Mine is allergic to oatmeal / oats. She would vomit 3 hours after eating every single time she ate oatmeal and that’s how we narrowed it down to that. It’s crazy because we are told that oatmeal is a good starter lol. Doc says it’s very uncommon and to re introduce in 1.5 years.

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FTM here too. We’ve done a LOT of applesauce, bananas, potatoes, black beans. She had green beans last night for the first time.

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May baby is our second. We are doing purées this time just like we did with our first. Our pediatrician suggested one good at a time with 3 days between new foods if that makes sense. so if you try prunes on friday no new foods until monday so it will be easy to tell that any reaction was to that new food. we did eggs and peanut butter after our first started some ginger foods around 8-9 months and will fit he same this time! we did just a little bit at a time for high allergens like those and he did just fine with them! After he was over a year we slowly introduced seafood and gave him a little bit more each time. After having shrimp for dinner one night he got hives all over his face within and hour of eating, so we called our after hours number and we’re instructed to give children’s benadryl. We checked on him every couple hours through the night and he was fine. we haven’t given him any seafood since because i’m way too nervous. this time i’m going to be sure to have benadryl on stand by when we start high allergen foods just in case!

Whose introduced foods?

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