Babybeagle is BLW and one of his favourite things is pasta or rice cakes with bolognese sauce (homemade and salt free of course).
He was ace last week, picking up his spaghetti and eating it and slurping it Lady and the Tramp style and I told MIL how great he was with it and how much fun it was in very proud mummy way. LO is nearly 7mo btw.
Anyway, my FIL then got in touch with DH and said we (well I since I prep all of babybeagle's meals) shouldn't be feeding babybeagle beef. FIL has been in the food industry all his life and said it was too pumped with chemicals for LOs.
Now I have taken the hump a bit since I try really hard with babybeagle's meals (and it gets my back up when GPs (inc my parents) interfere anyway however well intentioned). I don't live in the UK and its hard here to track down everything I want and you can't buy much in the way of "baby products" anyway so I improvise as best I can and cook fresh for him everyday. E.g. I can't find any organic meat anywhere (I have looked) so I buy imported Ozzie beef which is the best quality I can lay my hands on.
I had been giving him beef mince deliberately to help keep his iron intake up, as well as greens. He probably only eats about a teaspoon, if that, of meat in one sitting anyway.
Now I am doubting myself. I googled babies and beef to research for myself but didn't come across anything alarming.
I have told DH that I want to continue to give babybeagle beef unless he has a real issue with it in which case I will respect his wishes but I wondered whether anyone had any views or advice on this - have I missed something??