Cereal

silvie25mar

When did you drop the rice cereals? Or did you?

mben1119

At like 5 months. They're gross and unnecessary.

jesselayne8

Skipped it!

oliversmommy32912

Never did it. I don't see any reason why you need to continue.

silvie25mar

So what can I substitute? Oatmeal with fruit maybe? Just regular oatmeal? Just trying to think of more food options. Mine are so repetitive. Dd is nine mos and doesn't have teeth.

mben1119

You can do oatmeal, yogurt, rice (like real rice, not cereal).

mclere

You can stop it if you'd like. We skipped it as well. I just grind up regular oatmeal in the Beaba Babycook and add fruit puree sometimes or flaxseed meal with cinnamon.

interzone

We skipped rice cereal too. Instead I give them steel cut oats, pearl barley, amaranth, and a few other grains.  Most fruits are great mixed with them.  DS is a huge fan of oats with prunes. 

JenK1108

silvie25:

So what can I substitute? Oatmeal with fruit maybe? Just regular oatmeal? Just trying to think of more food options. Mine are so repetitive. Dd is nine mos and doesn't have teeth.

 

Keep in mind that even without teeth, they can eat quite a bit.  Most of their early eating is just mashing things on their gums, not really chewing.  You'd probably be surprised what she can eat!

michelle7482

Never used rice, DD eats Gerber oatmeal and a fruit puree for dinner and wheat cereal with yogurt for dinner.  She won't eat the fruit puree or yogurt alone (too sweet) so I mix with cereal and she loves it.  Plus, her iron was borderline low (11) at her 9 month well so I like all the iron it provides.

Zimger

We never used rice cereal.

DS likes oatmeal though. Just grind it up and add some fruit (we puree it still).

acaudill75

I think most people only ever use that for babies that have problems with spitting up, or as a very early first food. We didn't use it with DD2. She eats straight up oatmeal, and she just cut her two bottom teeth earlier this week. Gerber has a good on the go oatmeal you can pop in the microwave for 20 seconds. Buy one of those and try it out to see how LO does. Yobaby yogurt is good, organic and made for little babies, and they have a YoToddler too. Mashed or sliced bananas, depending on LO's eating abilities, or well cooked peaches, etc. with oatmeal. I stick to yogurt in the morning before her first bottle of formula. Its easier for me.