What have you put in your baby's mouth?

[Adaline'sMama]

Until a couple of weeks ago, DD had never had anything except for breastmilk. We went to the doctor for her first vaccinations (limited, semi-delayed..but thats another forum). She got the oral Rotavirus vaccine after her pettrusis shot and immediately stopped crying. She was smacking her lips and looking around like she was really happy. The nurse said, "Oh look, she LOVES that grape flavor". I was pissed. I really wanted to be the one to give her the first taste of anything other than breastmilk. So, I promptly found something to let her taste. DH and I went to lunch and I let her taste avacado milkshake.

Now, I'm talking about taste here. Less than 1/8 of a teaspoon. Enough to stick to the tip of my finger. We are not planning on starting solids or purees any time soon. That being said, usually about once a day one of us lets her taste something. Just a tiny bit. She seems to like the salty flavors over the sweet ones. Now, just to let everyone know, we are not going to feed our child these things once she starts solids. I plan to make all her baby food from scratch and it wont include sugar or salt.

Confession time
Here is the list of things she has tried:
avacado milkshake, ketchup, season salt, hummus, grapefruit juice, bbq sauce, lemon juice, agave nectar, lemonade ice cream, pom juice, odwalla super protien original, mustard, pickle juice, apple cider vinegar (this was for thrush), annies godess dressing, and the liquid while cooking saffron rice.

Her favorite: season salt

What have you let your baby try?

[akind1]

Nearly everything you listed, except the straight salt. Including

jam, jelly, marmalade
salsa
curry sauce (he didn't like this)
anything I can stick my finger in, and then he taste

He loves ice cubes and sipping on water.

[Ambystoma]

I let DS lick the outside of a junior mint and he got a bitter face and cried.....so nothing else yet

[SunRise]

Originally Posted by Ambystoma

I let DS lick the outside of a junior mint and he got a bitter face and cried.....so nothing else yet

Cute (now I want some junior mints)!


This thread reminds me that when my son was a baby he loved sucking lemons. Maybe I will see what my daughter thinks of lemon, although she is only 14 weeks!

She has tasted water and some sweet stuff that was offered to her while she was getting blood drawn. She has also tasted soda - I dipped her soother in it and offered it to her. She had a quizzical look on her face. (With my first, I wouldn't dare do such a thing. )

[hildare]

this might just earn me the worst mother ever award... when dd was 5 or 5 1/2 months or so.. what i let her taste was..
a finger dip of beer. but we made it ourselves.

sorry the nurse did that to you!

[staceychev]

I would've been so pissed about that nurse!

Anyway, nothin' but boob so far...

[rhiOrion]

I don't get the anger at the nurse. Surely you knew it would be sweetened. I didn't know it was grape flavored, but FWIW I'm sure it didn't even remotely resemble actual grape. And it's not like the nurse said, "let me add some grape flavor to this to piss off these parents." I assume that she just picked up the little tube of vaccine and gave it to your kid... I imagine they just come that way. But I may be wrong?

My kid has had mylicon, zantac, gripe water, hylands colic tabs, rotavirus vaccine, and tylenol. But i have a reflux baby.

[Knitting Mama]

Besides breast milk, gripe water and gas drops are it. She's only 2 months old though.

[texmati]

when my baby was that age he'd had the rotovaccine, gas drops, and thrush medicine (in addition to bm). Oh how he loved that thrush medicine!

[Adaline'sMama]

Originally Posted by rhiOrion

And it's not like the nurse said, "let me add some grape flavor to this to piss off these parents." I assume that she just picked up the little tube of vaccine and gave it to your kid... I imagine they just come that way. .

You a right. She opened the tube right in front of me. I did some research afterwards and found that almost all oral vaccines are flavored. I just didnt think about it beforehand.

Hildare: I wanted to let her try hoppy beer and DH said no. I don't think you are a bad mom. People used to drink beer every day because their water was dirty. Kids weren't excluded in that practice. Their mothers also drank low ABV beer while nursing, instead of water! There would quite a bit of backlash if we sat around drinking 3.2 beer all day while we were nursing. Oh, how sometimes I wish things were old-timey.

[1blueheron]

just boob....regular and sweaty flavors

[Artichokie]

absolutely nothing except my milk until she was 6.5 mo old.

[MamieCole]

Just breastmilk, hyland's tablets and tylenol. I hated giving him the tylenol (just a couple of days ago for the first time) but he was obviously in pain and it helped him a lot.

I have a weird hangup with the initial introduction of non-breastmilk foods for my babies. (as evidenced by my flipping out at my mom for giving my 6mo ds water from a straw w/out asking me first...overreact much? Nahhh, not me.) It just seems like such a huge deal to me. There is something magical and wonderful about seeing a baby grow and thrive on breastmilk...solid food seems a little like tainting something that was pure.

Once we get rolling with solids, I have fun with it and love watching my babes try new foods, but that first taste of banana is always a bittersweet moment for me. Love seeing their reactions to certain foods though. You never can tell what they will love/hate.

[sunshadow]

My daughter had dairy issues, so I am too paranoid to even give my son a taste of anything for fear of some bad reaction. I was happy when he hadn't had anything other than breast milk. Then he got really sick and ended up in the hospital. So, I guess Tylenol was his first taste of anything other than breast milk. since then the only other think has been teething tablets. Though I am so use to giving my daughter food that I don't know how many times I've almost mindlessness handed him a cracker or something when I am holding him.

[cristeen]

Breastmilk of all flavors (he's had it from over 20 different moms, including lipase milk). Formula of 3 brands plus homemade. Gripe water, acetaminophen, ibuprofen, teething tabs, colic tabs...

And in the food category, pretty much all single foods. Avocado, butternut, brussel sprouts, broccoli, asparagus, bell pepper, peach, apricot, cherry, jicama, cheese, refried beans (homemade), egg yolk, apple, beets, yogurt, cottage cheese, lettuce, 2 kinds of melon, and the other day he insisted on trying my spicy ketchup (and loved it - wanted more).

Grandma wanted to give him a bite of my homemade ice cream the other day, but I said no. Her response was - "oh yeah, you don't want to give him dairy"... No - it's coffee ice cream, it's caffeinated and it's 7 pm (and his formula is dairy).

[Knitting Mama]

Cristeen, regarding the homemade formula, how did you go about it? Was it very complicated?

Cecilia drinks my milk, but due to low supply, she drinks donor milk as well. We're going to run out eventually, and if I can't find another donor, we'll have to resort to formula, which makes me sad. I might like it better if I can make it myself though.

edit: I have found a few recipes by Googling around, but most of them call for a ton of ingredients including hard to find ones, and I'm a little daunted by them...

[akind1]

I am conficted a little about foods passing into breastmilk and the effect it might have on babies (a little OT) - like caffeine; I drink it at all times of the day and into the evening. Never noticed any differenence in my LO. then again, we haven't had any problems with dairy or anything else.

On Topic though: we were at an ice cream shoppe and I had DS on my hip, his arm gently pinned down by my arm on that side as I was holding an icecream cone in that hand as I filled my drink at the soda fountain with the other hand. Nevertheless, he leaned over to take a bite of my ice cream! (technically, it was frozen yogurt - the hard sort, not soft serve)

I figured if he is interested and willing, we give nearly anything we have ourselves to him to try. He also loves bean dip, miso soup (he gobbles this up!), lemons (but not oranges), french fries, pizza crust, carrot and celery sticks . . .

He did really want a swig out my beer bottle the other day (it was Memorial Day, we really rarely drink beer. Not my fave. give me a chocolate martini any day!) I let him suck on the top of it, but didn't give him any.

[Lauren31]

Hyland's teething tablets (are they tasty?), gas drops, generic tylenol (only once after a bad vaccine reaction ) poor baby... oh and breast milk. My husband let her lick his finger last night at dinner and their was homemade marinara sauce on it.

[karika]

Baby's virgin gut should be protected. By letting your children have anything besides breastmilk, you are changing the bacteria that live in their gut.
http://www.breastfeed.com/articles/i...-risks-3451/2/ (para mine)
"When babies are born, they have sterile gastrointestinal tracts. If babies are exclusively breastfed, they develop a natural healthy gut flora.... This means that the major flora in breastfed babies has reduced numbers of bad types of bacteria and increased numbers of good bacteria. Formula-fed babies (or any 'foreign' introduction) have increased numbers of bad bacteria, leaving them at more risk for illness."

http://www.kellymom.com/nutrition/so...ay-solids.html


"From birth until somewhere between four and six months of age, babies possess what is often referred to as an "open gut." This means that the spaces between the cells of the small intestines will readily allow intact macromolecules, including whole proteins and pathogens, to pass directly into the bloodstream.This is great for your breastfed baby as it allows beneficial antibodies in breastmilk to pass more directly into baby's bloodstream, but it also means that large proteins from other foods (which may predispose baby to allergies) and disease-causing pathogens can pass right through, too. "

I know you are not feeding your child solids. You are giving tastes. But that changes the baby's gut flora forever. One molecule of this or that seriously has that much effect. It may also be predisposing the tastebuds to foods that are not necessarily healthy (OP said they were not foods she intended to feed LO later)

[1blueheron]

oh...I forgot, dog hair too