Elin's sensitivity

I posted earlier that I had to take Elin in to get a blood allergy test. I still haven't. I have noticed when I give her the food I make for her - no reactions. If she gets jarred babyfood with asorbic acid in it (even the organic) she breaks out in these "excema" looking patches.

I started by taking all jarred babyfood away. Her spots went away.
I wanted her to have a variety of fruits so I went and picked up a few commerical fruit babyfood jars. She loved them - but had another reaction. (I hadn't put the two together yet)

Then it hit me - every time she had ascorbic acid she had a reaction. Did you know carrots have ascorbic acid in them? Yea, I do now.

I knew her first reaction was to pears and oatmeal. I really wanted to test my hypothesis out. I got some pears and pureed them. No reaction!!!!!
Next up is oatmeal. I wanted to wait until I knew the doctor was in the office and she was "spot" free in case she does have another reaction - but I'm trying oatmeal on Monday. I'm praying it's just the acid and nothing else.
I don't mind making her food - especially if it means she can have all the foods, if I make them.
And it really is easy to do. Just takes a little time. And I can easily make all of it organic!

You also know you are a mom when you get excited to find little 4oz canning jars so you can freeze the baby food you are making :)

Since the baby food jars you buy are not tempered for freezer temperatures and you could get shards of glass in her food when they break.  Yea I'm not going to attempt that and waste the food I made her.