were your babies more sickly when you introduced dairy and meat?

[mogwai]

My six month old has just started having some meat and dairy. She seems to like the dairy (especially greek yoghurt - blimey, she hoovers that up) and will eat fish with sweet potato and minced beef/onions with sweet potato. She's having cheese sauce made with unsalted butter and whole cows milk.

Spits chicken out, gags on mashed potato.

My point is, she's been throwing up more regularly, and I mean proper (stinky!) sick, not milky sick. I'm scrupulously clean in the kitchen and everything goes through the dishwasher on 70 degrees. Otherwise she's absolutely fine, doesn't seem ill.

Is this a common experience?

I've also stopped sterilising, as everything is going into her mouth and I was being advised "what's the point?". I now only make feeds up when she's ready to drink them (previously kept in the sterilised bottles in the fridge, ready made), and the bottles also go through the dishwasher. Not sure whether that might be the problem as started dairy/meat at same time I stopped sterilising.

Any thoughts?

i Doubt very much its NOT sterilising, as as you say when they out unsterile stuff in their mouths it makes the whole sterilising stuff pointless, and dishwashers sterilise things anyway!

I exepect its just the food, but hopefully it will pass with time!

Well doen for waiting until shes 6 months to introduce meat and dairy btw. Also it sounds like you have recently introduced LOTS of new things?
Why not go back to fruit / veg / baby rice for a few days then introdcude dairy again then add fish then chicken then meat in the same way or something like that?

That way you may (if your lucky) be able to see if theres any pattern of when she is (or isnt) sick.

i agree with nannyL. Beef especially can be quite a lot for their littel digestives systems to manage. She's maybe not quite ready for all these new assaults on her digestion. She will still get enough nutrition without meat or fish. My ds didnit get beef till he was over a year. He had been on a littel fish from about 10 months. He is 18 months now and still hates chicken - even the dreaded nuggets! He also hated mashed potatos too - think it was a texture thing.

DD (2) still wo'nt eat mashed potatoes - has always spat it out, just not keen on potatoes esp. mashed. She wasn't sick at all, but her digestion did take a few weeks to settle on new foods...especially later, when we got on to whole milk (she never had any problem with meats). I'd agree with slowing down a bit on too many new ones at once, and seeing how that goes.

in canada, meat and dairy (yogs, cheese) are a big no-no until 9-10 months

I didn't give dd any red meat or fish until about 3 months after starting weaning, just chicken after several weeks of rice, fruit and veg. Ditto ds who was a bit older when I weaned him.

Maybe just go back to the blander type food for a while and perhaps leave out onions for a while longer too (unless she's ok with that meal.

Mine still hate mashed potato! dd 4.8 now!

thanks for the replies

I think I'll go back to sweet potato and add things little by little, though she's really into the greek yoghurt/pears combo, I haven't the heart to stop that!