New feeding recomendations

Just this week, researchers finished a 10 year long study on infant feedings in relation to food allergies. As a result, they now recomend introducing all of the grains and cereals before 6 months of age. They discovered that babies who had not started on cereals and baby foods by 6 months old were 3.8 times more likely to have food allergies. This contradicts everything that we had been told as new parents, but hey...I don't want her to be allergic to wheat. Their theory is that their immune system needs to be exposed to these common allergens while it is still developing in order to develop an immunity to it rather then an allergy to it. They use to think that exposing kids to allergens too young caused allergies but have now discovered they were wrong. So, in following the new recomendations, Raquelle got her first taste of rice cereal today.

I think she liked it! We will still wait a few weeks before we introduce anything other then rice (I think).