Barley Cereal??

janice74 · January 2010

My pediatrician said I should do either rice cereal or oatmeal first and then move on to veggies. My BFF's pediatrician said to also give the her baby barley cereal. Has anyone else been told to do this?

I was sticking to cereals for the first month, so I figured I would cover them all. I also saw whole wheat at the store. Is that for later on?

kittykatlover · January 2010

IDK about the whole wheat cereal, but wholesomebabyfood suggests barley as a first food as well.

KrystalD7 · January 2010

My pedi told me Rice, Oatmeal and Barley too. I think it's to make sure they don't have any kind of wheat allergies. A total PITA though if you ask me.

CariannelovesTim · January 2010

I was told that too however I haven't had success locating Barley.

staycee · January 2010

I was told to do the 4 cereals first.

we did rice, oatmeal - then moved onto foods mainly because I couldn't find the other 2.

I finally found wheat cereal. But still haven't seen barley.

janice74 · January 2010

CariannelovesTim:
I was told that too however I haven't had success locating Barley.

My friend said I could use the mixed grain cereal once I gave LO rice and oats, but I looked at that and I didn't see barley listed. It was rice, oat and wheat.

CariannelovesTim · January 2010

Maybe that's why I couldn't find it. I have been giving DS mixed cereal since last week.

Mrs.DeliaMarieP · January 2010

We were told we could use rice, oatmeal, and barley, though she gave a disclaimer that many babies don't like barley, and that rice can be binding.

We tried rice for 3 days, and he was taking longer to poop during the day, which was preventing him from eating much early in the day due to poop cramps, which was resulting in two nighttime feedings instead of one. So we stopped rice for now.

We had day 2 of oatmeal today, and so far so good.

I haven't decided if we will bother with Barley or not.

ETA: I googled, and it appears that Gerber and BeechNut both make a Barley cereal

janice74 · January 2010

Mrs.DeliaMarieP:
We were told we could use rice, oatmeal, and barley, though she gave a disclaimer that many babies don't like barley, and that rice can be binding.
We tried rice for 3 days, and he was taking longer to poop during the day, which was preventing him from eating much early in the day due to poop cramps, which was resulting in two nighttime feedings instead of one. So we stopped rice for now.
We had day 2 of oatmeal today, and so far so good.
I haven't decided if we will bother with Barley or not.
ETA: I googled, and it appears that Gerber and BeechNut both make a Barley cereal

I am doing a week of each right now and trying to stretch the cereal out to 5 months. He liked the rice, but he LOVES the oatmeal. Yeah, I saw that they have barley, but it is hard to find and maybe it is gross. I think I'll go to Whole Foods and see what they have to offer.

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