To eat nuts around my baby

[Charming1234]

Current advice whilst pregnant is to eat nuts so I was told. Now my 11 week old DD is here I've just been sat happily eating a bowl of pistachios only to be told by MIL that I'm endangering my baby's life and I should be ashamed, I certainly shouldn't eat them anywhere near her and i shouldn't pick her up etc and breathe nut breath on her . AIBU?!

**MIL

Ahh thanks!!

My ds is allergic to pistachios and I am very current on allergy advice. Give them nuts as early as possible ! (Though in non chokeable form - butters, etc). High risk infants should be weaned with them as early as 3 months going by there newest research.

But, your MIL is saying what she 'knows', it's just that things have changed. If she is pushy, show her the EAT study (enquiring about tolerance, or similarly named)

Advice a couple of years ago was to introduce nuts early to avoid an allergy. So YANBU.

I live in the Middle East where nut allergies or at least perceived nut allergies are no where as common as in the west. There are nuts in baby foods and kids scoff nuts all day . Like they used topic the 70s and 80s everywhere.
I don't dismiss severe nut allergies exist but think they are a lot rarer than we are made believe.

I rubbed a nut on my ds's arm when he was about four months old just to see if anything would happen

Just tell her the current NHS advice is that its fine. If she persists then tell her to butt out.

My son took part in the 'EAT' study run by Tommys hospital in London. It was a massive study - looked at around 2000 babies. Son was given peanuts from age 3 months as part of the study, so were 1000 other babies! As far as I know, no detrimental effects! Actually I think current theory is that early exposure to nuts reduces allergies!!!

Do what my Sister did, sit outside A & E and give your child a taste of the peanuts off your fingers, that way any problems you can sort it there and then, no problems the just walk on by...

My very allergic ds was given nuts lots of times before he had a reaction.

I too gave my DD peanut butter on a ricecake as one of her first solid foods at 6 months. She loved it. YANBU

I have a nut allergic child, and my GP is very much of the 'nuts as early as possible' school, citing the evidence from Israel that others have mentioned. She said that it is thought that early non-food exposure might be the problem, so children having peanut oil in body creams before they've eaten peanuts. So if you're eating pistachio, grind some down and rub it on baby's lips, and if half an hour later nothing happens, get them to eat some. Just don't smear them in pistachio before they eat it!