Tomatoes

I would be careful with tomatoes because of the acidity. Both of my kids would get bright red around their mouths and faces eating tomato sauce (like on pasta), and when I actually fed them raw tomatoes down the road, it was even worse. The same thing happened with strawberries.

Now that they are 2 and 4, they're totally fine with both, so I guess they grow out of it.

Good luck!
N.

I know that some of the ladies say no but I say it is fine. Some of the experts say to induce tomatoes in the 10th month but My son loved tomatoes. I just gave him a small amount. You can also do yellow tomatoes which do not have the same acid content as red tomatoes. If you are still concerned, on the day you are going serve tomatoes, make sure you have served some yogurt. Yogurt helps with digestion of any hard to digest foods.

Here are some foods that are good to mix with tomatoes in your puree.
Carrots
Corn
Eggplant
Green Beans
Leeks
Peas
Plantains or bananas
Summer Squash - zucchini, yellow
Lentils
Pasta
Rice
Chicken
Beef
Pork

For final say so I would call the doctor.

S.

Hi! At my son's 6mo appt, the pediatrician said to begin offering table food by 9mos and to include both finger foods and pureed table food. He also said not to be afraid of flavor or spice. My son LOVED pureed pasta & meatballs. I used more meat than pasta, just little tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese and would thin it with low-sodium chicken broth. He never had any issues with the acidity. He's 15mos now and will eat just about anything and enjoys well-seasoned or spicy foods.

We held off on tomatoes due to the high acid content, although I'm sure we were trying tomato sauce on spaghetti by 12-13 months old. However, I was never given any specific warnings about tomatoes from our Pediatrician.

My peditrician said to wait until 1 year for those acidic foods like tomatoes, oranges, pineapple, etc.

Our ped. said not to give tomatoes at 7 months due to the acidity.

Sure! Why not?!? You're basically making tomato sauce. What's the harm in that?

the concern i'd heard from people was with the high acidity levels in tomatoes and the potential to give your little guy heart-burn.

No. The acid can cause sores in the toddlers mouth. Also the acid from the tomatoes, cooked and especially uncooked could casue to much acid build up in the stomach cause gas pains. There are plenty of other foods to give your chld. I started feeding my children catchup and spagetti sause at one year of age. Uncooked tomatoes at the age of two.

Unless the tomatoes are very diluted and mixed in with something else, I wouldn't feed a seven month old tomatoes. You would have pretty good odds of a very bad diaper rash. If you are interested in beginning foods for babies, read Annabel Karmel's First Meals. I think most libraries carry it and you can get it on Amazon. She uses tomatoes in some of her recipes, but in very small ratios to the other ingredients. She has excellent suggestions for homemade first meals and if you freeze in ice cube trays, you'll have serving size portions.

From what I remember reading, anything acidic should be withheld until 12 months. My son is 15 months and still can't tollerate diluted orange juice. 1 of 2 things may happen, or both. Bad diaper rash and/or acid indigestion. You're better off to wait.

I'd never heard of any warnings, but 1 year was the recommended age when my granddaughter was being introduced to new foods, too, because of the high acid content.

There's a website www.babycenter.com that I used alot for feeding and milestones. IT's a great website! It was kind of my "instruction manual" when she was little.

When you do decide to try tomatoes on Charlie, consider using cut up cherry or grape tomatoes with a little ranch dressing or hummos. My daughter is one of the few two year olds I know who even likes tomatoes, and it was because we started her on summer tomatoes fresh from the farmer's market or farm, and transitioned to grape and cherry tomatoes in the winter.

I would say NO to tomato. they are very acidic,which wouldn't set well with a little one,not to mention the possibility of diaper rash/burn from it as well. AND tomato is generally a high alergenic type food. I would say go with the direction of the pediatrician. As well you can contact the dietary dept of your local hospital for further assistance in what/what not to feed under a year. Good luck. J.