How Give Egg Yolks - 7 Months?

[kamane18]

DS started on solids right about 6 months and is doing quite well with a bit of self feeding, some small chunks and some purees. He does prefer the purees though. Wanted to start egg yolk this week and was planning on first hard boiled since easier to separate out the white that way. Should I just mash it up and add BM? Mix it with something like mashed banana or mashed avocado (both of which he likes)?

[CrunchyChristianMama]

We actually did scrambled eggs instead of trying to separate out the yolk. I made sure it was with completely free-range, local eggs though.

If you wanted to do just the yolk of a hard-boiled egg, I can't imagine that you would need to do anything to it other than break it up a little or slice it so he can pick it up.

[RiverSky]

We waited until our children were at least a year old before giving them eggs, since there are numerous allergies amongst DH and his siblings. I just wanted their immune systems to be as developed as could be before giving them too many common allergens.

[hibiscus mum]

I'd probably just cut it up into little pieces and let him self-feed.

[blumooned]

I hard boiled the eggs and removed the white, then just broke off small chunks for DS to pick up & feed himself. He doesn't love it, so mixing with another food may be what we do next time.
I haven't tried this, but, you could separate the raw egg & just scramble the yolk.

[kdtmom2be]

If you are concerned about allergies then you can't separate the yolk until it is cooked, otherwise it is impossible to get all the white off the yolk. Egg allergies are to the protein in the whites, there is virtually no protein in the yolk.

I soft-boil my eggs for DS, peel off the yolk (carefully, they'll break if the yolk is still runny!) and just spoon it to him. The yolk is just warm and still moist. If it is almost hard boiled then I mash the soft and hard boiled parts together.

(And if the yolk is hard then I break it into chunks and give him one at a time like PP suggested. If I give him all of it, even broken in chunks, he jams it all in his mouth and gags.)

[annekh23]

Originally Posted by blumooned

I hard boiled the eggs and removed the white, then just broke off small chunks for DS to pick up & feed himself. He doesn't love it, so mixing with another food may be what we do next time.
I haven't tried this, but, you could separate the raw egg & just scramble the yolk.

I separated eggs today as rather randomly I actually hit on a cooking combination where I needed yolks in one recipe, whites in another by accident rather than by design (I have some yolks, what should I do with them....). You can get white without yolk, no problem, it's what you need for meringues, but yolk without white, no way, not from uncooked eggs.

I'm waiting on eggs as I don't really see the need in most circumstances for the contribution of yolks to a balanced diet before it's common to introduce eggs as a whole.

I'm speaking from the perspective of a mum with a slow to do solids baby, she's 7.5mths and the milestone of today was evidence in her poop that something other than breastmilk has been swallowed, which turned out to be broccolli, although there was also a small piece of paper, not from the broccolli, but part of a label I missed on a toy.

[starling&diesel]

New thinking suggests that there is no benefit to waiting on introducing most foods, UNLESS there is a allergen history in the family. We don't have a history of allergies, so we gave DD whole egg, scrambled, from six months.
Other people I know have separated the egg (an imperfect art if you're worrying about allergens, mind you) and fried just the yolk until it was firm, and then cut it into finger-food sized strips.
Enjoy!