princessxiaomei,
Baby tends to be sticky to mummy once in a while, especially during the period when she is having stranger or separation anxiety, be it BFing or not. XY still clings on to me a lot these few days and she doesn't even let me to give my #1 a cuddle! I can do totally nothing, but then I have to do something for my #1, so screaming/crying from XY is happening every day now. Totally siao!
Stomach flu is caused by virus infection. It can happen anytime, and apparently it's very common for babies this age (my #1 got it when he was about 11 months too), maybe because they are mobile and put lots of things into thier mouth. The symptoms are very bad diarrhea and/or vomitting. For Milkway's Shanis, it's diarrhea. For my #1, it's vomitting, very bad till he would vomit even after drinking water, and he vomitted more than 20 times in a night! For some, they have both, that's even worse. Just have to be very careful that the baby doesn't become dehydrated with the severe diarrhea and/or vomitting. Other than that, really nothing can be done, than to let his body readjust and recover.
michelle,
I do give my bb some of our food also, but in very small quantity, like just to distract her, and only give those supposedly safe food, like tofu. As much as you can hold it, hold it till about 1.5 years old before letting them to have adult food. Rinsing with water doesn't really help, eg, noodle would have absorb all the gravy/soup already, so rinsing off only get rid of the coating, but not what has been absorb.