Nuts in Pregnancy

[HopefulJo]

Hi! I'm new here. I just found out we're expecting our first bundle of joy! Exciting! While TTC, I wondered about this question, but now it has more pressing relevance:

My DH is allergic to tree nuts & peanuts (and bananas & bad seasonal allergies & mild asthma). I've tried to research it, and am finding answers on both sides: To minimize the chance that the nut (or banana, I suppose) allergy doesn't get triggered in a developing baby that may already have a genetic predisposition to it, should I avoid nuts during pregnancy? Or will avoiding them have no bearing on anything? Anything else I should be thinking about allergy-wise during pregnancy?

Thanks!

[sbgrace]

My son is nut anaphylactic (one son is, the other isn't). I would not eat nuts in pregnancy or nursing were I to get pregnant again. There is controversy on this point of course. I just feel the life threatening nature of these when you know there is a genetic predisposition is just not worth it. Add to that there is so much nut cross contamination that most of us are getting constant trace exposure anyway (even those of us who have nut free homes for loved ones but eat out, eat at other's homes, etc. for ourselves). Your baby is likely getting trace anyway--why add a huge dose in there?

[HopefulJo]

Thanks, Rachelle. DH isn't *life-threateningly* allergic, but he's definitely sensitive to it, and if I can avoid that same sensitivity in our child, it'd make their (and my) life easier!