Do you feed your baby rice cereal?

[speckledfrog]

We did BLW, so we skipped rice cereal.

[ElizabethBennet]

We didn't. We started with mashed avocado and banana and the did oatmeal.

[ElizabethBennet]

And no, you're not slowly killing your kid.

[poppyseed]

I didn't want to because I had heard of the arsenic thing, but her pedi recommended it. She's only had it a few times and isn't really interested in it. After the third or fourth time giving it to her, I moved on to avocados and am just going to do solids from now on I think.

[melodramatic26]

I did about 3 times. Once she seemed to have the tongue thing down, I said screw it and just moved on to veggies. We've been doing that for about 3 weeks now. I'm just starting fruits this week.

oh and I don't make my own baby food. Gerber 1st foods so I'm probably poisioning mine too.

[looseseal]

We didn't because we did BLW, but if we hadn't done that I would have skipped to the oatmeal/veggies, etc. It looked more appetizing to me, lol.

[Deleted]

We skipped rice cereal. We did oatmeal, sweet potato and fruits. I did mixed a little rice cereal with the food at first so the taste wasn't as strong.

[daisybuchannan]

I started w oatmeal and then added veggies and fruits.

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Apr 1, 2013 10:30:35 GMT -5 ElizabethBennet said:

We didn't. We started with mashed avocado and banana and the did oatmeal.

I tried it a few times and they just weren't into rice.  We also made it at home so the consistency was weird.

They liked the oatmeal right away, though we didn't do until closer to 6m.  Before that was avocado and the like.

[cuddlyevil]

DS #2 was the only one who didn't get it and that was just because he lived in a constipated state and rice cereal made it worse.

But all 3 kids are fine.

You're doing fine, I promise!

[CurlyQ284]

We aren't there yet but we plan to skip. I keep hearing there isn't any nutritional value in it so I didn't see a point. I don't know much about the arsenic issue. Is it just trace amounts?

[cleo29]

K liked the oatmeal better and we waited till 6 months.

[cuddlyevil]

It's trace amounts, just like in apple juice (where it occurs naturally).

[eddy]

I mixed it with stuff, but we never did plain rice cereal.

I mixed it to bulk up the food so he would sleep better. Not ashamed!

[livinitup]

Yes, DD is 5 now but I bought a box of rice cereal, oatmeal cereal, and barley cereal when we started solids. I don't think I opened the barely one because she blew past the cereal phase so fast.

I always felt guilty and useless about something at that age. It really gets better. A lot better.

[catwithspots]

The "baby" is now 5 and all is good

She never liked the taste of plain cereal, so I always mixed in a tablespoon of applesauce, pears, or other fruit once I knew she was fine to eat that particular fruit. We did not stay on cereal for a long time--more of a tansitional food to smashed food.

Like the pp, I did cereal at breakfast and cereal at night for a full belly/good sleep.

[Deleted]

Puddle, you're doing great. You're just tired and I can't blame you.

[peachdragon]

We gave her rice cereal for a couple weeks then switched to oatmeal, which she liked better, and I felt better about. She is 2 and she still eats it. I add flax or chia seeds to it.