4 day wait rule

[PeachBaby]

Anyone NOT do the 4 day wait rule when introducing solids to baby?

[Comtessa]

We didn't. Well, we tried for a couple of weeks. Then I realized that there were very few allergenic foods we were introducing - so I've just tried to not introduce any potential "problem foods" right on top of each other. I wouldn't introduce oranges one day and pineapple the next, for example. But for things like rice and carrots and squash, we didn't worry too much about the four day thing. I figured if she had a reaction to something, we'd have to do a bit more detective work, but she's only had one food reaction (mangoes) and it was REALLY obvious which food it was.

[Abraisme]

I don't wait. I feed my DD little bites of whatever I'm eating (age appropriate to her). I try to to medicalize these things too much. I think our anchestors (cave people) would have started feeding their babies when they showed an interest. I don't think that they would have made an allergy chart or been worried about this at all.

[claras_mom]

I don't. We eat a lot of the same things all the time, so if the baby has a reaction to something, it's pretty clear what it is. Polenta, for example, tasted great going down, but came right back up pretty quickly.

She has some funny sensitivities...peas and carrots have not been happy, for example.

[mckittre]

Never waited. The only thing I did was introduce peanut butter in a small dose the first time. My baby's never had problems with any food, and at 11 months now, he's tried a lot.

[Auraji]

I didnt! And I have allergies, she's eaten soooooo many things and so far no reactions.

The only thing she hasnt had is meat or fish (we're vegetarians) and nuts.

Im allergic to almond, tuna, crab and lobster.

[tabrizia]

We didn't heck DD's first food, was foods, she got a variety of different things to eat on her 6 month birthday.

[kirstenb]

We did for about 2 weeks with DS1, but them we stopped and just feed him what we had. He never showed any type of reaction to anything.

[tessie]

No. I wasn't aware I was supposed to. It's not a recommendation in the UK.

[Miasmamma]

I don't. We don't have food allergies except my dad, and the things that he's allergic to are things that you really can't give a baby anyhow, like walnuts, watermelon and cukes. He's also allergic to bananas, but neither one of my girls have reacted to them at all. I and my DH aren't allergic to anything.

[Summersquash]

We did. DH and I both have various allergy issues and DD has known dairy sensitivity, so it made sense to us to be conservative about introducing new foods. And it wasn't really that difficult. We just had a piece of paper and a pen and kept an ongoing list. We'd just write down what food we were giving her for the first time and the date.

Thankfully, other than the dairy, DD doesn't seem to have any food sensitivities!

[Carhootel]

We did for the first couple months when he wasn't really eating anything, just tasting things. Now (11mo) we don't wait. Just tonight he had guacomole, refried beans and rice (mexican restaurant)- I'm sure there were tons of ingredients in there he hasn't had before and if he did have some sort of reaction I wouldn't know which thing it could be to, but he's had such a variety of foods before and hasn't shown a sensitivity to any of them yet so I figure we're pretty safe so far.

[DevaMajka]

I didn't, and now I have to start over at the beginning and do the 4 day wait because ds has a rash that started after we started solids! I mean, it's not going to be any more difficult than if I'd done the 4 day thing from the beginning. But ds might not be happy about it- he loves to eat, and I've been giving him bites of whatever we're eating that seems suitable for babies.

I did it with ds1, but didn't have a problem. I figured that ds2 would be the same. Which in hindsight was crazy- there's nothing the same about them! I wouldn't have considered him to be highly susceptible to allergies- dp doesn't have any, and I have 1 allergy (mango) and 1 sensitivity (fragrance, I think)that developed in my 20's. There are no other allergies in either family that I can think of.