They even hinted that the wives' tale that children like whatever their mother's were eating while pregnant might be true.

That just makes sense to me. They've already eaten a bunch of it after all.

The new studies show that if the family has no history of food allergies it should be okay to introduce fish, peanut butter, etc to babies under 1 yr.

The only bad thing about peanut butter (and that's besides the allergies) is that it is so sticky it can be considered a choking hazzard. I give O little bits, but not a lot and never on bread.

Fish is tricky because of bones and because of mercury. I'm paranoid about mercury levels, especially since their wee brains are developing at a rapid rate during the first year. We've only given O bits of salmon once or twice and he's never had tuna.

But yeah, a lot of the whole food thing is a huge gray area that parents have to navigate using gut instinct and some common sense.

Annabel's love for garlic fries would tend to confirm that theory.

Now I'm hungry for garlic fries. I'm going to blame Susan. *sigh*

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It's lunch time.

Fish is tricky because of bones and because of mercury. I'm paranoid about mercury levels, especially since their wee brains are developing at a rapid rate during the first year. We've only given O bits of salmon once or twice and he's never had tuna.

Everything I've seen says that canned light tuna is ok (because it's the lowest in mercury containment), and if you limit tuna consumption to 2 oz/week you should be OK.

I totally believe the business of introducing spicy/varied foods after watching the nephling, who is a chef's kid, hoovering up everything and anything strongly flavored when he was a little one.

Everything I've seen says that canned light tuna is ok (because it's the lowest in mercury containment), and if you limit tuna consumption to 2 oz/week you should be OK.

I think they're actually advertising a "guaranteed low mercury" canned version. But I'm just avoidy because of the pregnancy on top of it, so we're just not buying it at the moment. Unless I happen to get a white-hot craving for it (and the tuna salad sandwiches at Panera really are cravable).

My experience with babies was that they ate spicy food with enthusiasm -- until the dreaded one-year mark hit. Somewhere after one year, babies aren't hungry all the time. This means that they are able to be picky. Mine took full advantage of this right.

Then ensued the 10-Year Mac-N-Cheese Glut. Let us never speak of it again.

Then ensued the 10-Year Mac-N-Cheese Glut. Let us never speak of it again.

Heh. Except for those of us hovering on the brink.

I'm trying to imagine my mother varying her menus based on our preferences. From where I was sitting, she sure seemed intractable ::shudders at liver memories:: but it's not like I'm an unbiased reporter, or anything. I do know she worked around my father's predilictions, or at least tried to, and then threw her hands up in despair. Still! Fufu!