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  | Natalie_G   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Topic: Sandwiches Posted: 31 July 2009 at 3:44pm
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   Hi everyone,
 Just wondering when it is safe to give a baby small sandwiches i.e. Marmite?
 
 My daughter is 7 months has one tooth popping out, she also eats lumpy mushy food fine.
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  | angel4   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 31 July 2009 at 4:01pm | 
 
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   Henry was having sandwiches then. He had four teeth. THough most babies i know are pretty good at gumming food if necesary. i would try it - obviously supervise her and see how she goes. Just a warning dont go too overboard on the marrmite lol henry had it heaps in sandwiches at the start and now if i put a marmite sandwich in front of him he crys lol    i think i over did it. Good luck
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  | palomino   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 31 July 2009 at 4:03pm | 
 
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   Iv just started giving Brennan sandwiches.  Not much of it actually gets eaten, but he has fun mooshing it, sucking it and rubbing it in his hair etc...  
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  | Natalie_G   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 31 July 2009 at 4:05pm | 
 
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   LOL Yeah I would only put the tiniest amount of Marmite on it.  
 Thanks for the advice.
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  | kebakat   Senior Member
 
   
 
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 31 July 2009 at 4:23pm | 
 
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   I gave Daniel sammies when he had no teeth and he loved them, hes a vegemite freak now
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  | Bobbie   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 31 July 2009 at 5:00pm | 
 
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   Sure just no honey and probably best to avoid wholegrains
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  | cuppatea   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 31 July 2009 at 6:35pm | 
 
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   Yeah will be fine. Kyle won't eat off a spoon so we have had to start with finger food. They do tend to sometimes gag a bit, but just remember it is part of learning how to chew and swallow and overcoming the gag reflex. And I remember with Spencer he never choked but he did power vomit everything out a couple of times when he gagged badly. 
 Ok that wasn't trying to alarm you more just letting you know it's normal so you don't get put off if she gags a bit.
 
 If you have any puree left you can use that in sandwiches and also I make sandwiches out of corn thins instead of bread and you can also give them spreads on cruskits/rice crackers etc. Just for variety, different tastes, textures.
 
 
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  | Shezamumof3   Senior Member
 
   
 
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 31 July 2009 at 6:57pm | 
 
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   We found wheatmeal bread the best as it was easier for Caden to "gum", I found white bread was a bit glugy and harder for him to mush up.
Marmite and Vegemite are what we staretd off with and I used to give caden strips(soliders) of bread and he would suck on them and gum them until they were mush.
 He did gag a bit and I would watch him like a hawk to make sure he didnt stuff to much in at once, if he did I just hooked it out.
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