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<\/a>I love being right. \u00a0I love vindication. \u00a0However, there are times that I wished my 6th-sense mommy intuition was wrong.<\/p>\n
At Miriam’s daycare, parents send food\/snacks for their children until they are roughly 1.5 years old. \u00a0I am not an organic\/clean food sort of consumer\/parent, so practically none of the food that I sent to the daycare was ever made by me or Bryan. \u00a0Well, I guess all of that breastmilk that I sent was organic and took a lot of dedication to produce but solid foods were basically whatever looked good in the baby food aisle.<\/p>\n
Miriam was running low on snacks at the daycare, so I quickly ran out to the store to pick up baby friendly food. \u00a0She was almost 1 year old, and we were giving her “big girl” food like fruit bars. \u00a0As I hurried up and down the aisle, I came upon “Jammy Sammy” bars. \u00a0It was cushioned between other baby foods that were “organic”, so I quickly put the snack in my cart, comforted by the “organic” label.<\/p>\n
Big Mistake….<\/p>\n
Fast-forward a few days (maybe a week) later… \u00a0I received a call from the daycare explaining that during\u00a0snack-time Miriam \u00a0vomited “violently”, was crying, and breaking out in a rash. \u00a0I was then asked why I sent something with peanuts to the daycare. \u00a0“WHAT – I DIDN’T DO THAT!” \u00a0was my confused response. \u00a0I knew that the school was a “peanut free zone”, and sending a peanut laced snack was the equivalent of trying to kill someone.<\/p>\n
Apparently, that’s exactly what I had done. \u00a0The “Jammy Sammy” bars that I had purchased and sent to the daycare contained peanut butter. \u00a0I had bought a peanut free version of the\u00a0brand before, but apparently the particular one that I hastily purchased DID have peanut butter. \u00a0The print was small in comparison with the other lettering, and obviously not pronounced enough to raise the suspension of the lady that handed out snacks at the daycare. \u00a0I can’t tell you how badly Bryan and I felt, but if someone who is always very careful about packaging and labels missed the print, maybe I wasn’t such a horrible person. Lesson learned – read the labels at least 5 times before purchasing, and read again before sending snack(s) to the daycare.<\/p>\n
Still, we were\u00a0not certain that Miriam actually had an allergy to peanuts. \u00a0I mean, a million things can make a kid puke, right? \u00a0I took Miriam to the doctor and the doctor agreed. \u00a0Great – probably no peanut allergy??? \u00a0She mentioned a research article about sensitizing kids with a risk of peanut allergies and maybe we could try peanuts again. \u00a0I remembered the article, because it had made such a splash in the popular press. \u00a0However, considering the consequences of a severe reaction, it didn’t seem like the thing to do. \u00a0I am not an MD, so I thought maybe we would give the snack one more try.<\/p>\n