Oh yes, I did up the famous sausages and used millet in place of the bread crumbs as you suggested and they were great! DH and I loved them, DS did pretty well considering he had a hard time getting them into his mouth (still just learning that he has to LET GO of the food in order to eat it!) but I guess I should add chicken is a bit of a problem for us as well! Just ONE of those little sausages (I made them up about 3/4 " wide, 1/4" thick and about 1.5" long - lets say the size of my thumb) constipated him for DAYS. Turned his poop very dark green and confirmed my suspicion that chicken is really bunging him up as well. It can only be the iron, but I just can't comprehend that such a small amount of chicken can be THAT hard to digest? Is it possible?
We have been doing sweet potatoes, they were a first food, and he gets on well with them. I just bake them, skin on, and then scoop out the potato and mash. Sooooo yummy! I introduced eggs about 2 or 3 weeks ago, yolks only, and they haven't caused him any problems. I mix two yolks with some of his milk (Nutramigen) and scramble them in a tiny bit of vegetable oil. I often mix a bit of red bell pepper puree into it and he likes it, and sometimes some cooked quinoa as well.
Millet porridge he absolutely HATED and the quinoa....hmmmm, he takes it or leaves it, depending on his mood.
He won't do veg as finger foods, I think he just finds it to be too difficult for the amount of satisfaction he gets from them! Pears, on the other hand, he will chase around his tray and pick off of his t-shirt.
Maybe I will try millet pancakes. I have a huge bag of millet now that DS won't eat (and DH is fuming after it took him an hour to find it, convincing everyone in the supermarket that it WASN'T to feed the birds with....
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Bethany do you know what I am talking about in my post above, with the possibility that celiac can lie dormant in your body and only when it first is presented with gluten would it react? Have you ever heard this? I'm trying to find someone who can tell me they have heard/read the same thing so that I feel like I am not being stupid! Are you going to introduce gluten when she's a year?