Posts by texaspeach

are you looking for the name given to this? it's object permanence.

norasmama, we just experienced this with egg on thursday. it was probably the tahini (sesame) in the hummus. you have to be sensitized to something before you react to it.

was it explained that the tests can have a false positive? was it the skin test or a blood test (rast/cap-rast/immunocap)?

also, the aap has said the order of food introduction doesn't matter after 6 months as long as there is no history of atopy - that means if your child or family members have no history of allergies (food or environmental), asthma or...

if your lo has had one before, you can introduce the new one and the one that passed - ie if he's had avocado before but not melon, you can serve melon and avocado together. if your lo has had neither, I would serve the individually so...

well, after a certain point you might not remember that your lo hasn't had something before. we do blw and ds has food allergies, so when he tries something new we do try to watch him pretty closely but we certainly aren't going to...

I took that out when I removed the newborn insert. ds was only a few weeks old. it was fine. you can use a rolled receiving blanket if he doesn't have great head control.

around 3 month it got bad then stopped a while later and picked up again at 9 months. I'm 11 months pp now and it is really bad.

JaneS - thanks for the info! it's hard to research with a little that must be held 95% of the time we were strictly dairy free, avoided obvious and hidden dairy, until DS was 9.5 mo - we trialed dairy at that time and it passed, no...

sorry about the incoherent post - that's what happens when I post precoffee. I was wondering about whether I should eliminate milk from ds's and my diet, and avoid all nuts myself (we are not giving him nut products). for now we are...