{"id":4561,"date":"2014-05-23T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=4561"},"modified":"2014-05-23T08:00:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T12:00:17","slug":"the-next-step-with-solids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/23\/the-next-step-with-solids\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Step with Solids"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019m really particular about how I introduce solids<\/a> to my babies.\u00a0 I do one food at a time and wait on high-allergen foods until my babies are older.\u00a0 I figure by being so careful, if there is a reaction I will easily know what caused it and by waiting until the kids are older, their little bodies will better handle a reaction.<\/p>\n

\"DSC02214<\/a>With the girls I started with rice cereal then oatmeal then vegetables and fruits.\u00a0 I then began adding in \u201chigher risk\u201d foods like citrus, berries, eggs, dairy, and soy.\u00a0 I waited until after a year to do wheat, 18 months to do nuts and 2 years to do shellfish.\u00a0 At some point I stopped paying attention (other than the nuts and shellfish) and just gave the girls whatever.\u00a0 I think it was somewhere around the 1 year mark, after I introduced wheat.<\/p>\n

With Doodle, though, things are going much slower.\u00a0 The process of doing finger foods<\/a> has left me struggling to get new things introduced every 3-4 days.\u00a0 He has not yet had any dairy, citrus, strawberries or wheat.\u00a0 Because he hadn\u2019t had wheat or dairy, his first birthday cake was a challenge (but a delicious one, here\u2019s what I ended up doing!<\/a>)<\/p>\n

But now that we\u2019ve passed the one year mark, it\u2019s acceptable for him to have cow\u2019s milk in a cup.\u00a0 His doctor okayed him to try anything aside from peanuts and shellfish (the wheat thing is all my own!)\u00a0 And I feel like it\u2019s time to just open up the culinary world to him.<\/p>\n

But I can\u2019t.\u00a0 I just can\u2019t do it!\u00a0 For some reason I just can\u2019t do it, I can\u2019t just hand him a pile of food and let him have at it.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know whether it\u2019s because he\u2019s my baby or because he might<\/i> be my LAST baby or perhaps because despite him being bigger than the girls at a year, he seems so tiny and fragile compared to them now.<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a>I know I HAVE to do it eventually, I can\u2019t wait forever, he can\u2019t go to college eating only a small list of pure foods.\u00a0 So I decided I need to start introducing those last few \u201cconcerning\u201d foods.\u00a0 Tomato, strawberries, oranges, pineapple, yogurt, cheese, wheat.\u00a0 But why is it giving me a panic attack?\u00a0 What is causing me so much stress?\u00a0 Why is it so hard?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m really particular about how I introduce solids to my babies.\u00a0 I do one food at a time and wait on high-allergen foods until my babies are older.\u00a0 I figure by being so careful, if there is a reaction I will easily know what caused it and by waiting until the kids are older, their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baby-business","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4577,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions\/4577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}