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wow! super interesting - I'll keep this in mind with #2 as well. LO #1 had peanut butter early (cause I love it and eat it all the time!)

DD got peanut butter at a year.

DS has eczema and food allergies (we are seeing the allergist st the end of the month), but we actually know he's not challenging to peanuts because of a blood test, do we will probably introduce this month (almost 10 months).

Thankfully, we don't have any food allergies here. I waited until 10 months with DD1 and 7 months with DD2. I likely wouldn't try it before 7 months just because it's thick and hard to swallow!

DD2 has a peanut allergy (and egg allergy and eczema). I wish I had read this before we introduced solids... we did give her peanut products (Bamba) at 6 months but because she was having bad reactions (not anaphylactic) to eggs, we stopped giving her peanut products. I wonder if it's too late.

We introduced Logan (my second) to peanuts at 7 months. He was allergic.

@Adira: same here.
Both DDs have/had eczema (DD1 has outgrown it, yay!). I introduced peanuts to DD1 around 12-13 months; she has no food allergies. Introduced peanuts to DD2 at 7 mos, and she reacted. We also found out after that she has a couple of other food allergies.

@Adira: no, she hasn't, but fortunately it hasn't been as severe as DD1's, who outgrew hers around 4.5 years.

It always seems ludicrous to me that doctors recommended waiting to introduce peanuts. Isn't that the way the human body develops protection, by being exposed to stuff and there for getting a chance to accimate to antigens?

@T.H.O.U.: We had it at a friend's house and my son looooved it. But when i compared the nutrition content, it has more sugar and fat compared to goldfish crackers, however, considerably less in sodium.

My DH & BIL are both highly allergic, so I waited until my son was 8 months - I wanted a weekday where I was home with him so that I could see the reaction and have a choice of taking to the pediatrician, urgent care, or emergency room dependent on reaction. Luckily he has not had any reactions so far, but I've only done it about maybe once every two weeks bc it is SO messy and I can't do it when DH is around. The article recommends 3 times a week! yikes!

Lo 1 didn't get peanuts until he was 2!

Lo 2 got peanuts at 6 months per the pediatricians recommendation.

No allergies for either.

We gave her nut butters and Bamba pretty early - within a month of starting solids (at 6mos). The only consideration I gave to timing was to give it for the first time at breakfast, when her pediatrician's office down the street was open, instead of at dinner when we'd have to go to the ER/urgent care if there were a problem.

@lady baltimore: yep, definitely gave. Ew stuff in the morning before naps or anything so I could watch her for a few hours after. I had forgotten about that! At a mum group I went to people said that some go sit in the hospital parking lot when they give their kids peanuts for the first time.

My nephew had an egg and nut allergy just before one and at his allergy testing around 2.5 he was cleared of both! My brother has had an egg allergy since 1 though and it's still going at 15...

Started giving him PB at around 7 months, per the NYTimes article and checking with our pediatrician. We kepy it up and now at almost 2.5 he loves PB and isn't allergic (which is great bc there was a period in the fall when he would't eat any other protein!)