ALLERGY BABYCARE: IF YOUR BABY IS ESTABLISHED ON A DIET
If your baby is weaned, established on a diet and appears to have food sensitivity, you will find it helpful to read the section on FOOD AND DRINK. It will help you to understand the advice you will be given about sorting out what your child reacts to, and the advice on diet you may receive. In particular, you will need to understand the difference between food allergy and intolerance, the basic principles of exclusion dieting, precautionary measures against developing new sensitivities, and what substitutes you can use for common foods you may have to leave out of your child’s diet.
As anyone who has tried it will tell you, sorting out food sensitivity is tricky enough, before you add to it the difficulty of dealing with a wilful and assertive one- to two-year-old. There is no easy way through it and it would be naive, even insulting, to claim that there is. Perhaps the best advice to share is to try not to place too high standards on yourself or your baby, accept that you probably will not be able to go about it the way you would really like, and learn to value any achievement you make, however small.
The real battles come over leaving out foods to which the toddler is accustomed, and over persuading them to eat alternatives. With leaving out foods, it makes it easier if the foods that the child wants to eat but cannot, are simply not around, and that other family members should not eat them either, at least in front of the child.
It sometimes works to go for a subtle, rather than a direct, approach, by simply substituting other foods without comment – such as corn flakes, porridge oats or a rice cereal for a wheat cereal, or goat’s or sheep’s yogurt or cheese for cow’s milk versions; or offering rye crispbread or oatcakes rather than wheat biscuits or bread; or oat flapjacks instead of biscuits.
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