Blood Test or Not?

Had fun riding the rattan horse in Dr Koe's clinic!

2 weeks ago we finally brought Darling to see the highly recommended Dr Koe Swee Lee, a consultant pediatrician & lactation consultant. Was planning to get the allergy blood test which she explained to me on the phone the other day.

Went there at about 10.15am & we're at #19 of the queue! Some families went for lunch in between so we got to skip a few slots earlier, only waited for about an hour, not too bad on a Saturday right?

Dr Koe doesn't recommend the allergy blood test especially at this young age, as the result won't be accurate. She did a few test with other patients & was very disappointed cuz couldn't find any culprit.

I shared with her on our case & diagnosis of the stool with streaks of blood. She explained that lactose intolerance is very rare in babies. If it does occur it will be from the day they born, & not after few months. Symptoms are vomitting & diarrhoea. So far Darling never experience those.

But the fact that I'm on a strict elimination diet & that still happening, it really worries me. Hence the decision of taking the allergy blood test, however that she doesn't seem to recommend. She said that happened only twice in last month, with only very little fine lines of blood & tiny bit of mucus. That indicated improvement of her condition.

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Starting Solids!

After doin much research on starting solid, we finally gave her the very first spoon!

She's been showing signs of readiness & our Pediatrician Dr Yong also advised that we can start as soon as she reaches 6 months old. Since she's diagnosed with lactose-intolerance, I wouldn't wanna rush into it & rather observe a little bit longer. Having said that, I decided to start slowly & gently, just to let her have a taste of it :)
I gotta really pay attention on food selections to be on the safe side.


Her first feed of semi-solids was quite a happy experience. She spat out a bit occasionally but throughout she can swallow quite well. We're all enjoyed it!!

So far she's fine with the Holle Organic Rice Porridge which we mix a bit of my breastmilk. Stool was a little thicker & darker in colour, slightly greenish. Hope that's alright.

It's the 5th day of rice porridge & next probably we'll try avocado :) looking forward!

Sweet Pea Mom

xoxoxo




What's your tips on solids for your baby? Any interesting recipe that you would like to share? :)