rice cereal benefits!?

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Anyone who skips the cereal? What are the real benefits of it?? Is it important? Do you mix some in with the fruit or veggie? .....what's the best brand? Are there alternatives such as mixing whole grains in with homemade babyfood?

Son almost 5 months and starting to think about babyfood in a month! Thanks!!!!

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We skip it.

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Also used this to determine if he was ready by 6 months.

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We skipped it. Also do BLW, he eats a plain version of what I eat. I don't push solids though, he still loves boobie way more.

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I tried to skip it with my second daughter and it didn't work. She did not like trying baby food out of the blue, so I gave her the rice/oatmeal cereal mixed with breast milk for a few weeks and once she got used to it, I mixed in some baby fruit, and then finally baby food and she did really well.

I would recommend it just to transition, as it will help them to be open to try more if they are comfortable with the change! Good luck!

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We used it in his bottle starting at a month old for his reflux.

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We do oatmeal and she loves it. Will be switching to steel cut from the baby oats soon. Other than the oatmeal we BLW

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I skipped it and pediatrician said it wasn't necessary bc it didn't really have much in the way of nutrition.  Daughter was chomping at the bit for real food so we made steamed and pureed veggies first.  Now shes 10 months amd wont have anything to do with baby food so its all chopped up whatever we have.

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I didn't give much to first because my ped said there is no nutritional value to it. I skipped it with my second and when I have baby number and four I'm skipping it as well.

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We started giving solids at 4 months and went with veggies to start. I made them myself puréed them. Carrots were my lo first meal.

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It is fortified with iron - which is especially important for breastfeed babies.  BM doesn't contain iron and babies use up their reserves by about 6 months...per our doctor.

But you can certainly skip it if your kid will eat other foods with iron.

We gave it to our first who loved his purées.  We tried it once with our second - projectile vomit ensued.  We skipped it all together with the third.  All breastfed, no known iron deficiencies.

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