Avocado... fail.

We love avocados and buy some every week. So of course, we were thrilled to see avocados are a great first food for babies. We were excited for Luke's first food (besides oatmeal) experience to be one of the best foods! We tried it last Saturday and he loved it.

 We started with a Baby Led Weaning approach of giving him a piece of whole avocado (not puree). Once it fell off of the skin (after a lot of playing) it was very slippery and kept ending up in his chair. He was pretty frustrated with that and eventually cried.

On Monday, we gave him avocado in the mesh feeder since the slippery avocado was driving him insane. Luke went to town on that avocado!

Right after he was done eating and I wiped him off, I realized he had a rash on his cheeks and on his chest and anywhere the avocado touched. His breathing was fine but it was a raised rash. By Tuesday morning it was still there and I called the doctor.

The pediatrician said it wasn't hives but eczema and it could've been from our change in weather,  the cold he was dealing with, OR the avocado. She advised us to let the rash clear up then offer it again. All week, I've been diligent about his lotion and keeping his eczema under control. His skin looked great again yesterday so we decided to try again today.

WahWah... Avocado Fail. Today (while he was still in the high chair), everywhere the avocado touched quickly turned into little red bumps.

I've read about avocado sensitivities and eczema flare ups from avocado and everything suggests trying it again in about 6 months. But for now, no avocado for this boy. Unfortunately, bananas and laytex are in the same family so we will proceed with caution with bananas too.

Up next... sweet potatoes (as soon as the flare up is calmed back down- hopefully Tuesday)