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Is there anything inherently bad about sausage skins? DS is 8mo, BLW since 6mo, and I've been carefully peeling skins off the cooked sausages then eating the complete disasters myself but today, it was just too much. So I handed him the sausages split lengthways, and he dealt with the skin in the same way he deals with apples, kiwis etc: manipulated the piece round his mouth until he'd got all the meat he could off it, and pushed the skin out.

Is the warning a "be careful with these to avoid choking until your baby can manage them" or "they are made of something evil and should not be put inside your baby"? If the latter, I will avoid being so lazy again and get DH to do it.

Ds is 8.5 months and I've never had the patience to peel a sausage yet!
As you said he just chews around them
And spits out the bit he can't manage.
I don't think there's particularly anything nasty in them, just a but hard for little teeth and gums to get through.

I think it's just a choking hazard. Especially if you don't cut the sausage up. The skin can be quite long and thin isn't it?

you can buy frozen skinless sausages

I don't know if this makes you feel any better but I had no idea that sausage skins were considered bad and have never peeled one when blw (the things you learn on mn!)

Do you use normal sausages? Are they quite salty - have never given DS one as worry

I've never even thought about peeling a sausage for DD!

Thanks gang. I feel somewhat reassured. I do use normal sausages: these were chipolatas, cut into 2in pieces. I don't serve them often - wrote this as last time I used them was at Christmas so I suppose only once a month or so.

I'm relatively relaxed about salt levels since I don't add salt to our cooking, we use low salt stock powder etc and we make our own bread which has minimal salt. I've read elsewhere that normal amounts of bacon, ham etc are ok - working on the 80:20 basis I was feeding DS the same as we were eating, even Gill Rapley includes a couple of recipes with chorizo in her book stating it's okay if served occasionally.