Clever people, over here!!..So now babies aren't supposed to eat the husk of things????

[weaning]

Ok, i've name changed because this was a conversation i had tonight with someone who knows I MN and I like my anonimity!

The conversation regarded the Annabel Karmel Moulie and the fact that it catches all the husks so that your baby "doesn't get too much fibre and become constipated" to which I went and because well that is a pretty unexpected statement.

She says a dietician told her this but i'm just, well speechless actually!

I'm BLW with a bit of puree bunged in and have a fairly laid back attitude to weaning, should I be worrying about whether or not my baby eats the shells of peas??

MN Jury, Clever people please talk to me about this because its never come up before and I'm on baby no4!

how bizarre. i have never, ever heard that before, methinks she is talking out of her arse!

PMSL! That was my 1st thought... and then I thought shit what if everyone "knows" this and somehow I missed it!

I'm not quite sure how I would google it iyswim? so I figured that it would leave it to the might of MN!

I thought excess fibre had the, er, opposite effect??
(Disclaimer: knows nothing about babies digestive systems, yet.)

30 I know! that was my reaction apparantly i'm wrong! Apparantly fibre has the opposite effect on babies

I would really love to know the real answer.............

Mmmm. Well babies shouldn't be given really high fiber foods because it can effect nutrient absorption. Personally I've always take that to mean don't feed them an endless diet of all bran, prunes and brown rice...

Driven i'm totally with you, babies definatley shouldn't have a high fibre diet, but if all they are having is pureed veggies, would the skin on the peas make their diet "high fibre".... It's a clever selling point for the moulie thing, but is it truly a risk? Have I been accidently overdosing my children with fibre because I didn't shell the peas?????!!

I'm half laughing about this and half crapping myself that she's right and I missed it!!

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Does anyone know the answer??? please???

they just shit the husks out don't they........well mine all did anyhow - empty shells of various coloured vegetables with husks on 'em in the nappies..........

toccata I very nearly pmsl then I'm going to face her with that one tommorrow and see if she has an answer for that one!!!!

Yes, they can't digest them so they just come out undigested not sure why this would be a problem!

So I'm thinking, better they eat the damn things! They get the added bonus of getting used to food having texture and I don't have to peel peas!

there's a reason raisins and sweetcorn come out the other end looking inflated..

don't worry about it.

inflated????

The skins get reinflated, yes - so it looks like whole sweetcorn and raisins and blueberries in the nappy and actually it's just the skins, full of poo

Are. You.Joking.Me?

Not only all the pureeing messing about, now we have to peel stuff?? Like freaking sweetcorn

If it didn't get processed in DS gut, when I changed his nappy the next day I got a helpful reminder of what I'd fed him the day before.

Precisley Valpollicella in fact i'll throw her that one tommorrow - I need al the helpful reminders I can get!!

So are we agreed then that this is utter nonesense - the need to remove "the husks of things" from babies diets?

(i'm really hoping that I'm right and she's wrong can you tell?)

How has the human race suvived all these years without mothers carefully husking peas, sweetcorn, beans etc?

How did we all not all die out due to mass constipation (or explosion due to constipation) in cavemen times (or in fact the last, oh I don't know, 10,000 years) when cavemums didn't have the Annabel Karmel farkin moulie?

LOL! You see this is my argument! I still have this horrible feeling i'm going to turn out to be wrong!

No you really really aren't!

As someone said above, a high fibre diet is one of brown bread, brown rice, wholemeal pasta, and then on top of that, very fibruos (?) veggies. Because that lot does contain a lot of undigestible husks etc.

And that, as a staple carb diet (as we do have here ) prob would constipate them

Bet you aren't feeding your lo that lot? Exclusively?

Nah. Guessed you weren't

Berti

boaktastic

Nope your right valpollicella I'm not feeding my LO all that lot tbh its more on the lines of pureeing whatever happens to be in the fruit bowl or letting him chomp his way through half a cucumber ( which mostly ends up on the floor ) because he's teething!

But you know how it is with some people? It seems like they got a hand book with their kids that you missed out on, they give the mue face when they see your babies slippers and comment that they aren't going to be chrome free leatherec etc etc, ( very judgy too! )

I'm almost expecting someone to do a "duh! pea husks! they are the work of the the devil you fool!!!!"

I just think that the husk of the pea really should be eaten with the pea and classed as a normal level of fibre.

I would love to come back to her with some evidence that pea husks are beneficial.

Thanks everyone for convincing me that I hadn't slipped into some strange reality where everyone but me was spending their time de-husking peas and squeezing the "goodness" out of sweetcorn!

I'll just carry on being a lazy slow weaning mummy I think! Thanks everone

you should have turned round and said "well, we do baby-led weaning.... had you not heard of that??" and then wax lyrical about it (regardless of whether you actually do or not lol)

peeling peas wtf??

i agree that brown everything, prunes, etc etc would be too high a fibrous diet...

but fgs, peeling peas, whatever next?

thisisyesterday pmsl, thats pretty much what I said to her actually! Whilst frantically think omg have I missed something????

I think i'm going to do some research into the benefits of pea shells in babies diets just to wind her up later