Whole eggs in baked things (8 month old)?
DD2 has been eating table food for almost two months now, and we've gone through a decent variety of single-ingredient foods with her with no problems. But now she's really starting to beg for the foods we're eating - she's got her own little made-up sign for "give!" It's especially true for whatever her sister is eating: pancakes (my Thursday morning tradition with DD1), muffins, peanut butter sandwiches (obviously that's a no-no), etc.
But most of the foods in question would be OK if she could eat eggs. (Clearly not the PB&J!) I've read conflicting things about eggs in baked goods being OK to intro around 8-10 months, and was wondering what the general consensus is here. We didn't run into this problem with DD1 because by the time she'd been eating table foods for two months she was a year old!
DH has an egg white allergy, so I had planned to be conservative and wait until 12 months like we did with DD1, but I've also read various things that indicate that while a parent with a food allergy makes it more likely for the child to have a food allergy, it may not be to the same food. As far as we know DD1 has no food allergies at all, although she sometimes gets a rash on her face after eating...garlic? Or onions? Hard to say as when we use one we almost always use the other! But it's only happened a few times overall, despite those being common ingredients in our meals. And DD2 hasn't reacted to anything we've given her - except the one time DH didn't realize I'd already fed her some black beans at lunch and gave her more at dinner while I was working. Poor gassy baby!
Argh. This is too complicated. Some part of me actually wishes DD2 would eat pureed foods like a normal 8 month old baby... Though I have to admit it's a whole lot less messy and time consuming this way.
Sarah
Mommy to:
Carolyn, 10/04
Anna, 7/08
Matthew, 8/13