Sunday, April 17, 2011

A juicy story

Wednesday afternoon, I picked up the kids and headed to my parents house for dinner, then Cody and I needed to leave for preschool.  My mom had a few pears, and we decided to use the juicer and give Brynn her first taste of juice!  Made it, put it in a sippy (something that she NEVER drinks from...she gets water/Elecare in her mouth and spits it out, then laughs) and she CHUGGED it.  Oh my goodness, it was so good to see her actually drink out of a sippy instead of just play with it.  One pear does not make much juice and I diluted it with some water as well, so she really didn't drink all that much.  But, she drank the entire amount that was in the sippy!  =) 

The next day, our daycare provided texted me and said that Brynn had pooped 4 times already (and it was only 10AM) and her bottom was so sore.  I started thinking....ok what the heck caused that??  She didn't have any new foods, she's not sick...hmmmm.  Then it hit me.  The pear juice.  Pears are a safe food, BUT the juicer has seen many different foods.  Apples being the main one.  My mom uses it to make Cody apple juice when he's there.  At first, I wasn't sure which food the cross-contamination was from, but after seeing Brynnie's bottom, I KNOW that is was from apples.  The blistery-hives were exactly the same as they were when we trialed apples 5-6 months ago.  Poor baby.  Kari (daycare) let her soak in the bath a couple times and let her roam free for 10 mins here, 10 mins there, which seemed to help the soreness. 

So, looks as though I need to buy a "Brynn-only juicer". 

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