DC won't eat rice cereal... any suggestions?

ksizz

So, we just began solids.   First we did sweet potatoes and my DD loves them.  I decided to do rice cereal next for the iron, since my DD hates vitamin drops and our Dr. wants her iron supplemented now.  I have tried feeding it plain (with BM), and  I have tried to mix some sweet potatoes into the cereal, but alas, she still wont eat it.  Do you have any suggestions of what has worked for your DC?

uhlerj

Mix it with fruit (bananas)

middlemarch26

I'd keep trying to mix it with veggies she likes.  Start with MAINLY sweet potato and breastmilk, with just a little cereal.  Then if she takes it, slowly increase the amount of cereal you are adding in each feeding.

You could also try other kinds of iron-fortified cereal, like barley.

Momma_S

try experimenting with different textures. Make it thicker or thinner than you are now and see if that makes a difference. Just keep trying though.

jenifairies

my suggestion was going to be skip it, but then i saw that your dd needs the iron.

have you tried the pre-mixed kind? my dd would only eat the stuff from jars that was pre-mixed with bananas. if i tried to mix cereal myself, she would refuse it.

Krissi~n~Justin

I'd try a fruit.    THat stuff tastes like cardboard!   The oatmeal's mot much better (IMO) but they seem to like that better than the rice!

NewBlue

We skipped RC because it made him constipated.  He loved oatmeal but after trying new stuff doesn't take it plain anymore.  I will mix it with applesauce or pears or if dinner time I put some on the spoon then dip it in the veggie of the day so that the texture is veggie and the immediate taste is veggie.  We now are giving rice cereal with apples (because we need to stop him up from his antibiotic).  He seems to like that.

beachlovinbride

I bf and skipped rice cereal altotogether and started with oatmeal. ?Our pedi said any of the cereals would be ok...my mil gave him rice when she watched him and he didnt poo for 5 days from it. ?oy!

MrsJeffsWife2B

I don't know if this will help, but there's a recipe on my blog for homemade quinoa cereal.

https://www.becoming-mom.net/2009/03/26/quinoa-baby-cereal-recipe-keen-who/

Quinoa has naturally occuring iron and so it's easier for baby to digest (less constipating). I think it has a better taste than the boxed rice cereal, though I've never tried the rice cereal so I can't say for sure. Jasper likes it though!

Just mix in a tiny bit to start with a food you know your LO likes, then increase the amount until its say a half and half mixture. 

GL!

ksizz

Lots of good ideas here.  Thank you!