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Peanuts and breastfeeding- accident

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AOMum · 13/09/2023 22:45

Hello,

I am a nervous and anxious first time mum. I am on holiday and was breastfeeding my 3 month old baby. My partner brought some peanuts with some flavoured dusting around them (Sahara nuts) from the place we were eating. I wasn't even thinking, I just grabbed a handful of them and started munching. Then some dropped onto my baby. I had the dust on my boob and some was in her hair. I immediately took her off the boob, wet wiped all around it and her and put her on opposite side. I now feel like an idiot - I'm scared to go to bed (this happened around an hour and a half ago). There are no allergies in our family except I've cut out dairy as Dr thinks the dairy in my milk is affecting her bowels and I am asthmatic.

I know that on mumsnet, 99% of comments are so lovely but I often see 1% where someone will type something like "you need parenting classes" or "you are endangering your baby, I would never do that" which is why I'm scared to post on mumsnet. Please only supportive and constructive comments - us mum's are already too hard on ourselves!

OP posts:
Isleofdeer · 14/09/2023 17:04

Going forward I would avoid eating peanuts around the baby or the baby's things if they are high risk for allergies ( eg if they have eczema) until they are exposed to diluted peanut butter in their diet. Fine to have lots of peanuts and peanut dust around once they are eating them regularly.
That's only for high risk babies. Most babies are not high risk and aren't likely to develop an allergy anyway. The early introduction of peanuts in baby's diet really helps prevent even high risk babies developing an allergy too.

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