Hi hi,
I am BACK after all the MIA.... Haiz, Clarence was sick sick sick last week, hence it had been a lousy week for us battling with his flu. Yup!!! Lotsa sick babies and adults around!
Wow, so today's topic is food!!! Mrs Buttons, you really posted quite a bit today! On leave is it??? <<<grin>>>
Okie, I have fed Clarence the following so far:
- Pumpkin (every SINGLE kind... the baby loves pumpkin)
- Potato and Sweet Potato
- Carrots (Yup.... loads of beta carotene)
- Broccoli
- Brown Rice
- Heng Cai (Spinach)
- Cabbage
- Apples (his fav! at least 1 a day)
- Avocado (just started - he needs fattening up)
- Bananas
- Pear
- Threadfin
- Salmon
- Pork
- Chicken (the free range type)
Anyway, brought Clarence to the PD last week.... The poor boy had a nose that resembled that of a running tap, a cough that is pretty hacking, and a fever that went up to 39.6.
Anyway, PD was saying that the flu virus is going around, together with the much dreaded hand-foot-mouth-disease and chickenpox. So it's scary to bring baby anywhere these days.
My PD recommended that we bring Clarence back for flu jab when he's fully recovered. According to my PD, flu is the major culprit for hospitalisations and complications (such as bronchitis) among toddlers 3 years and below, and this current bout of flu has been pretty prolonged and severe, and 4 babies from Denver US just died from flu 2 weeks ago. I am not sure about the flu jab cos I read somewhere that it consists egg protein (not sure if anyone knows anything about this) and therefore may trigger an allergy. Anyway, I did ask my PD and he said it is fine, and in fact it is recommended for all babies above 6 months to take the flu jab. Has any babies gone for the flu jab yet??? Can share share???
On food, my PD recommended that we introduce a new food each week to rule out any possible food allergies going forward. We asked about tofu and he said tofu is good. I asked if tofu will trigger any food allergies, and my PD said that tofu is soy-based and therefore is generally well tolerated by babies above 6 months. He said nuts and egg-white is out, while soy is fine. He said that fully COOKED egg yolk is also fine. We told him that we fed salmon, and he said that well local fish is usually better tolerated, but since we have already fed and he is fine, we can continue feeding.
Anyway, Clarence's food bill has been costing us a real lot. Haiz... We have been feeding only the organic stuffs all these while, except for the meat. My mom is pretty paranoid about all the use of pesticides, hormones injections and genetically modified foods that we are only restricted to the organic stuff.
So this has also cut down on the variety of stuffs which we can feed to him...
Anyway, anyone with any lobang on where I can find cheap organic stuffs plse share share yah? Thanks!!!