Rice cereal or oatmeal?

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What are the difference’s between the two? Which one are you going to be using/are using?

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We wont be using either. There is next to no nutritional value and it killed my sins stomach. Pediatrician told us it wasnt necessary so my daughter wont be trying it

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Oatmeal has more nutritional value than the rice cereal. I mix baby purées with oatmeal at night for my daughter. You can either add water, breastmilk, or formula to change the thickness

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The only benefit to baby cereals is that they are fortified with certain nutrients like iron. After 6 months, babies can become iron deficient, especially breastfed babies because breastmilk contains barely any iron. The cereals are not great for babies digestion so it’s better to introduce other high iron foods like sautéed spinach, cooked bone marrow, meats etc. along with vitamin c rich food sources like fruit purées and vegetables. Its best to wait until babies are around 6 months of age though as before 6 months the lining of their gut is leaky and introducing foods too early can lead to autoimmune conditions later in life. This is new research and so many peditricians are choosing to ignore it and put more babies at risk of health problems. If you’re going to introduce foods before 6 months like pumpkin and sweet potato purées, mix them with bone broth. The collagen in the broth helps to seal the gut lining, improve gut health and protect from illnesses.

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Reading the label the other day between the two in my kitchen, I actually noticed there are more nutrients, vitamins, and minerals in the rice I have than the oatmeal. Grains aren’t a bad thing. I use them to thicken veggie and fruit purées as my baby is well past the runny kind of thing at this point. I haven’t used them on their own in weeks.

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Oatmeal has more nutrients and is less constipating for ebf babies.  Rice cereal also has a high level of naturally occurring arsenic, so we chose to skip the rice cereal and went with oatmeal.  Our girl lapped it up on her first time.

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I would use oatmeal over rice because of the arsenic in rice cereals

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My dr said not to use rice cereal due to arsenic levels.