@startingsolidsaustralia: The one food I recommend avoiding completely before 12 months? Honey. Yes, even a tiny taste. Yes, even baked into something. Here's why: 🍯 Honey can carry spores of Clostridium botulinum. Before around 12 months, a baby's gut hasn't matured enough to stop these spores from growing and producing a toxin — which is what causes infant botulism. 🍯 Cooking doesn't fix it. These spores are heat-resistant, so baking, boiling or stirring honey into a recipe doesn't reliably destroy them. That's why the advice is no honey in any form, not just off a spoon. 🍯 Cases are genuinely rare in Australia today — and that's largely because parents already avoid honey under 12 months. Low case numbers are a sign the advice is working, not a reason to make an exception. 🍯 Here's the easy part: honey isn't giving your baby anything they actually need before 12 months. There's no nutritional gap it fills that other foods can't. So the risk-reward is straightforward — skip it for now, and it's completely fine from their first birthday on. #honey #foodbefore1 #foodbeforeone #solids #babyhealth

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