prunes for a 7-month-old? what have i done?!

[aitch71]

the baby grabbed one of my delicious breakfast prunes this morning (she WRECKED my digestive system during labour, and left me with a 'little friend' who peeks out every so often so i eat a lot of prunes).
is this okay? can i expect her to become even more spectacularly incontinent than usual?
they weren't organic or anything, and the ingredient list had preservatives adn potassium sorbate on it.
what is the thinking on giving dried fruit to wee babies? i take it they must be very sugary?
i should add that she loved it, and i was thinking that i might take them out with us to eat if they aren't a bad idea...
any views on this?

One prune may not have too bad an effect - now if she had eaten loads.....

How old is she?
My DD was eating dried raisins, apricots and stuff by about 1 but I cna't remember when she first had them

I think dried fruit are good for snacks. My dd1 has dried mango slices and sultanas all the time-these are staples in my bag when we go out. (as well as fresh fruit like bananas)

I try not to give too much - dd1 has lots of fresh fruit as well.

I think dried fruit is better than giving sweets etc. My dd1 often leaves most of her Weetabix in the morning, so dried fruit is a good way of getting fibre into her.

Health Food shops have a good range of organic dried fruit without all the preservatives etc.

Hey,your doing blw and you didn't realize it!

you're even

My dd1 perfected her pincer grip using raisins - in time for her 8-12 month check-up.

I think you're fine as long as they don't have too much.

oh that's good, cos there are always some floating around the house. i'll have to start buying organic.
hotmama, we are doing blw as it happens, so i am always on the lookout for snacky things i can put into my silly wee tupperwares.
the baby is seven months old, so she it was more of a fistful of prune than a delicate 'ladies' pincer grip.
i suppose the only reason i thought they might be bad is the sugar. there was a news story a while back about a wee kid who had all his teeth filled and his parents were going mental cos he had never had a sweet in his life. turned out he lived on dried apricots, and his parents hadn't seen any problems with that. the farting must have been astonishing, perhaps they couldn't see his mouth through the clouds of stench.

oh, and hotmama, have you tried the semi-cuit (i know you love french, hotmaman) mango slices from M&S? they are divine.

Those mango slices are too good to give to the children though

Agree - there are certain things that are too good for children (like chocolate esp dark chocolate) to my knowledge my dd1 has never had any (which is esp good as she can't snitch to my dp when I have some) which is infrequent -if you read my posts

DD is a chocolate fiend - the richer the better.
Anopther of her favourits is chocolate covered stem ginger cookies, and kit kats which she asks for regularly even when she knows we don't have any.

aaah, the M&S dark chocolate gingers... fabulous.
we've recently had a Simply Food open up near us (are we upwardly mobile or wot?) and my shopping bill has quadrupled. good to know i can economise on the mango slices for the baby, however...

aitch71 - so have we!You don't live in Nottingham do you?

i'm in glasgow. i read an article that said that if a simply food opens up the area is designated for big price rises. of course, we are spending so much in M&S we cannpt afford the mortgage any more so i'm not sure how that works...