Forbidden Foods
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Before Your First Baby...
Asked by D.L. from Chicago
on April 28, 2008
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I would like to request your honest feedback for an informal survey/question....
"What do you wish you would have known before you had your first baby?" (What surp...
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- i wish i'd known.... that babies cry..... more than i ever thought possible.... for no apparent reason. and sometimes after you've checked the diaper. fed them, bu...
- This is a good question. Before my first child was born, I would have liked to have known that many, if not most, babies cry every single day. A newborn baby can be pe...
- I wish I had read Happiest Baby on the Block with my first instead of my fifth! With my first my MIL told me, "whenever you want to hold him, hold him, you'll never...
When to Start Rice Cereal
Asked by N.J. from Grand Junction
on April 18, 2008
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My son will be 4 months at the beginning of May and I have heard that I can start him on rice cereal. I have also heard that 4 months is too early. From those moms out...
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- "Solids" (including rice cereal) should start around 6 months. We started our son at 5.5 months because he was a big boy for his age and still seemed a bit hungry aft...
- This is probably too late, but I had premie twins and due to that we had a nurse come to our home for the 1st year to weigh and measure them and to make sure they were...
- I used rice cereal and started it at four months. My oldest had trouble with solids and stayed on formula until he was over 18 months. My youngest started in on solid ...
Peanut Butter -- 'Refrigerate After Opening' Optional?
Asked by S.K. from Los Angeles
on January 20, 2012
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We were at MIL's house and my daughter asked for a peanut butter sandwich. I looked in the refrigerator for her peanut butter, couldn't find it, so I asked her if she...
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- Refrigeration for organic or natural peanut butters is to prevent the oil from going rancid (where they break down, causing them to smell and taste bad) which takes mo...
- I've never seen a "refrigerate after opening" label on peanut butter! Maybe it's the all-natural TJ's brand. I never put peanut butter in the fridge, and there has nev...
- Peter Pan here and no fridge no worries. I have made my own at the store and that has to be refridgerated. But it was too much work and too expensive we do not eat t...
Is It Time for Peanut Butter?
Asked by A.J. from New York
on December 2, 2010
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As I'm sure most of you moms know, finding foods a toddler will eat is a full time job. I recently thought about making my daughter a pb&j sandwich before I remembered...
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- Found the exact same question on the Skinny Scoop so here are a few more responses you can check out: http://www.theskinnyscoop.com/question/q/2325?utm_campaign=the...
- My pediatrician has never mentioned holding off until a certain age. My son had peanut butter crackers around 10 months and I recently let him try a peanut butter sand...
- I gave it to my son at 13mos. We have no family history of food allergies on either side, so I wasn't that concerend about it. No problems, and he loves PB&J!
Share Some Honey?
Asked by P.G. from Elmira
on August 28, 2009
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These requests are very serious, as they should be when we need advise about OUR little lovies!
So, let us share our silliest, funniest, cutest moment this week fr...
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- Whenever my son sees something that he thinks a girl would like he says that he wishes he could give it to me when I was a kid. I put a little note in his luchbox t...
- Quote of the day: "I need more stuff in me, so I'm gonna eat raspberries." My son is 3.
- trying to make it sooo exciting about my kids starting Kindergarden, i took them shopping for black shoes and white sneakers (school policy) they took one look at the...
Peanut and Egg Allergy
Asked by A.T. from Provo
on October 15, 2009
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Hi moms,
I wrote a little bit ago for help with cutting dairy out of my diet (as a potential cause of my daughter's allergies) so I could continue to nurse my 10 mont...
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- My oldest daughter has several food allergies, and I'm a medical writer, so I'll share a little of my observations here. Initially we saw problems with certain seaf...
- My husband, his brother and his uncle all have nut allergies (and I've taken my husband to the ER before because of it), so I was VERY careful when I chose to introduc...
- I think you need to question the allergist more to ascertain exactly what he means by severe. I am allergic to several things including peanuts according to the alle...
How to Jump Start My Metabolism
Asked by S.A. from Chicago
on February 19, 2010
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I had my 3rd child six months ago and am struggling to lose weight. Until recently, I've been too tired from taking care of an infant plus two older kids to do much w...
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- The people I know who've had the most success are those who attend Weight Watchers. I know it sounds crazy, but my sister-in-law has done it twice with amazing result...
- i saw something on tv a few weeks ago. the woman said, (as most trainers and nutritionists do) that breakfast is a key to losing weight. but, you have to make your b...
- I had baby #2 and gave myself to her first birthday to get to my desired weight. I was able to start when she was 7 months - here's what I did. I was successful to ge...
Soy Formula Connected to Peanut Allergy?
Asked by M.C. from Chicago
on October 15, 2008
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I am starting to switch my six week old son to formula and the lactose based ones do not seem to agree with him. I recently heard that soy formulas have been connecte...
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- I don't know about allergies, but in researching formulas for my own daughter, I recently learned that both similac and enfamil make formulas that are dairy based but ...
- I'm not sure about that but I breastfed my daughter and she has a peanut allergy. I have to be extra careful with her diet. She is a healthy three year old active pres...
- Nutragemin (spelling?) is what my son had to have for his intollerances. He had bloody stools from the intollerances. I found that his teeth rotted from have the produ...
When to Start Finger Foods???
Asked by A.L. from New York
on August 23, 2008
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Hello everyone, my son loves using his hands to eat. Infact he gets mad when I am feeding him because he wants to do it himself. He is 7 months old and we give him the...
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- If he's showing that he can munch down some foods, try pasta. My husband makes homemade macaroni and cheese and I was nervous alittle bit about feeding it to him, but...
- my daughter is 8m old and when she started doing that, i just started trying to give her some pieces of our food, when it was healthy enough and soft enough, to see ho...
- my little one (our 3rd) was solely on table food by 8 months...so if he is acting ready, go for it...just keep a close eye on him for choking. PS...if he's this ind...
When to Start 3Rd Stage Foods
Asked by N.L. from Portland
on December 26, 2008
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Good Morning and Happy Holidays!
I was wondering when was a good time to start my daughter on the 3rd stages food. I gave her a jar last night to see what the diffe...
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- The only difference in the 2nd and 3rd stage foods is the amount of food in the jar. At one years old you can feed her anything she can chew. I started feeding my son ...
- I think when the baby is comfortable using their back gums to mash small, soft chunks of food. That's the main difference between 2nd & 3rd stage foods: its a bit chu...
- There are small cooked chunks in it. Like pasta rings and cooked carrots. It's to get them feeling textures and mashing them up with their gums. I started my son...
