Cereal or no cereal?

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My son is almost 6 months and I’ll be starting him on solids soon. I’m debating on whether or not I’m going to give him rice cereal. If I do I plan on introducing it to him before actual baby food but when I’ve done research on it I just see a bunch of stuff about it being empty calories and hard for them to digest and some other negatives, but I know it gives them the iron they need, opinions please?

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You’re better off doing adult oatmeal vs rice cereal. Our ped said to skip rice cereal because it has zero nutritional value. We did research on Baby Led Weaning and went that route.

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Nope! Big waste of time and money. No nutritional value and it doesn't help them in any way. We didn't do purees either. We went straight to baby led weaning as it much more beneficial for them. And as for iron, there are SO many foods that contain iron. They don't need cereal for that lol if he's eating a well balanced diet, he'll be just fine.

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My son hated the rice cereal, even when we mixed it with something else. He would not eat it. I tried every now and then, he just wouldn’t eat it. And I have only hear bad things so I’m not gonna try anymore.
I never tried giving him oatmeal, but he’s been eating the baby food wonderfully, he loves it!

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I did oatmeal. My daughter is now 14 months & still loves it.

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We started with baby oatmeal at 4 months because of Acid reflux. We never put it in the bottle though, it was always spoon fed

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We skipped it because of all the negatives you mentioned. They can get iron through other food sources, just like we do as adults. Google “foods high in iron”.

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We started baby on cereal and loves it. But this baby also loves vegtables too.

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We started oatmeal at 5months, mostly just to super slowly introduce new things. Never seen Rice cereal sold her when I think about it.

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My pediatrician gave me the go ahead to start my twins on solids at 4 months and recommended rice cereal to begin with because it is plain and easy to mix with breast milk or formula and it's very unlikely to have an allergy to it. It's what I started with and my kids never had any problems with it.

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My son was so greedy I had to give him cereal at 4 months and it was the best decision ever slept thru the night and stayed full but every kid is different. Try it for a few days and see how he reacts to it

Cereal or no cereal?

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