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Babies should be offered peanut protein early and often to help reduce the risk of peanut allergy later in life. But if thick globs of peanut butter are a choking hazard for early eaters, how do we safely feed babies peanuts? In this episode we’re going to look at a variety of preparation methods for making peanut foods safe for babies to eat.

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In this episode we’re talking about peanuts and:

• HOW OLD your baby should be when you first introduce peanut protein

• WHAT types of foods that offer peanut protein are safe for babies to eat

• WHY we need to offer peanut protein early and often to prevent food allergy

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• Other BABY-LED WEANING MADE EASY podcast episodes mentioned in this episode:

  • Episode 14: Peanut: How to Introduce Your Baby to this Potentially Allergenic Food 

  • Episode 39: Tree Nuts: How to Introduce Your Baby to this Potentially Allergenic Food

  • Episode 11: How to Introduce Allergenic Foods to Your Baby

• “Eat the 8” book by Ron Sunog, MD is one of my favorite food allergy books and you can get that on Amazon here (this is an affiliate link) 

• REGISTER for my free online workshop BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS: How to get your baby to try 100 foods before turning 1 without you having to spoon-feed purees or buy pouches. Everyone on the workshop gets a copy of my 100 FIRST FOODS list so you’ll know exactly what foods babies CAN eat when they’re ready for BLW (including yogurt)! Register for this week’s workshop times here.

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• REGISTER for my free online workshop BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS: How to get your baby to try 100 foods before turning 1 without you having to spoon-feed purees or buy pouches. Everyone on the workshop gets a copy of my 100 FIRST FOODS list so you’ll know exactly what foods babies CAN eat when they’re ready for BLW! Register for this week’s workshop times here.