feeding baby egg yolk at 4 months as recommended by NT

[Guest guest]

a,

There is no hurry to start solids, and it is better to wait until

their gut matures which happens closer to six months. Egg yolks can be

allergenic. It's better to start with the mellow fruits and vegetables

like applesauce, peas, squash, pears, - the " first foods " kind of

stuff. A breastfed baby doesn't need anything else for a long time -

and watch your daughter for signs for when she is interested in joining

you at the table. There is a developmental stage that accompanies the

interest in solids. My son started watching us intently and trying to

mimic us. Try spoon feeding her expressed breastmilk to see if she

likes the whole experience.

HTH, Cyndy

On Monday, December 29, 2003, at 03:44 PM,

wrote:

> Message: 8

> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 07:24:53 -0800 (PST)

> From: erica zbyszewski <hlthgrl5275@...>

> Subject: feeding baby egg yolk at 4 months as recommended by NT

>

> Hello,

>

> My daughter will be 13 weeks tomorrow and I'm

> considering giving her softly cooked egg yolk next

> month as NT recommends. Have any of you done this, and

> what were the results? I've heard, of course, not to

> give solids until 6 months and I'm wondering if giving

> her this yolk at 4 months will cause problems. She's

> thriving on breastmilk alone so I'm thinking maybe I

> should just wait until 6 months.

>

> TIA!

> a

[Guest guest]

>. he actually had an allergic reaction to it and got big red welts on his skin

wherever he had smeared the yolk. Later he vomited, turned green and collapsed.

So I advise being VERY careful - skin test first and perhaps just give a bit of

yolk, not the whole thing.

The allergy thing is a biggie ... I started feeding my kid cooked eggs when

he was older, and shortly after he tested positive for egg

allergies on a skin test. Those were good eggs, though he probably

had some gut issues (it was while we were changing his diet

from some very poor stuff). But no one in our family has any

problem with eggs, that we know of, so I suspect it was just

the " egg overdose " at a young age. It doesn't really make sense

to me that egg should be such a common allergen, but maybe

it is harder to digest fully in some circumstances (maybe raw

is better in that case).

-- Heidi