Revised stance on cereals link?

JenniferL923

I think someone posted this last week and I didn't save the link.    I'm at work and had googled and didn't find what I'd seen before, but don't have time to dig through posts here.

It was a link to starting solids and how cereals isn't thought of as the best start anymore.  I think it was saying something about how meat would be a better source of proteins....

Need to send to a coworker!

Thanks!

purplecrayon

No idea, sorry.  Just wanted to say I absolutely LOVE your siggy pic!  So sweet!

JenniferL923

Thanks!

Don't worry, I'm not thinking of starting meat now, I'm just trying to figure out what the heck I am thinking of that I read.  

coey03

Is this what your looking for?

https://www.pediatricnews.com/article/S0031-398X(09)70296-6/fulltext

JenniferL923

coey03:

Is this what your looking for?

https://www.pediatricnews.com/article/S0031-398X(09)70296-6/fulltext

That is it!  Thanks!

MelonieK

DC2London:

Meat should be the last thing introduced because their livers aren't developed enough to break down meat proteins.

I haven't read anything that suggested otherwise, but this is the reason meat is traditionally introduced last.  

How about the very first line of the article?

There is no good reason not to introduce meats, vegetables, and fruits as the first complementary foods, according to Dr. Frank R. Greer, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics's Committee on Nutrition.

[...]

...meat is a rich source of iron, zinc, and arachidonic acid. Consumption of meat, fish, or poultry provides iron in the form of heme and promotes absorption of nonheme iron, noted Dr. Greer. Red meat and dark poultry meat have the greatest concentration of heme iron. Heme iron is absorbed intact into intestinal mucosal cells and is not affected by inhibitors of nonheme iron from the intestinal tract. Iron salts present in infant cereal are generally insoluble and poorly absorbed

 

Rice Cereal Can Wait, Let Them Eat Meat First: AAP committee has changes in mind
KERRI WACHTER
Pediatric News
November 2009 (Vol. 43, Issue 11, Pages 1-5)

lil_rhody

Thank you! We'd talked to the pedi about doing it this way. Glad to see an article about it. People always think we're crazy when I say we aren't starting with cereal.