A couple days ago, after eating sweet potato with coconut milk and cinnamon for dinner, Michael noticed redness all around Liam's mouth that almost looked like scratches or a rash. He had no other symptoms, and it faded within a half hour or less.
After at first wondering if he had just scratched himself or the paper towel I used to wipe off his face caused irritation, but then I began to suspect cinnamon. It is fairly common for it to cause contact dermatitis on babies. It is not a true food allergy or intolerance (a lot of babies are also very sensitive to acidic things, citrus, etc.) so hopefully he'll grow out of this. To be absolutely sure cinnamon was our culprit, tonight I put a couple dabs of the sweet potato mix on his cheek, wiped it off, and sure enough he got red patches right were the food was less then 5 minutes later. Then put a small dab of applesauce with cinnamon on his face, and got that same reaction. I'll be talking to Liam's doctor about it and we will be avoiding all cinnamon until further notice.
Here is a cute video of Liam eating banana. When we first introduced it, he wasn't crazy about it at all but now he loves it! You'll also see me spoon feeding him some banana mashed with avocado, which he also enjoyed.
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Just like Grandpa Wayne...well not quite. GW doesn't smash his quite that much, but he has a love of bananas!
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