baby cereal, yes or no?

nschuetz01 · April 2013

I have heard mixed reviews on feeding cereals to babies. I was thinking of making my own organic whole wheat cereals, but I'm not going to invest time in it if it's a nutritional waste if time. My ds is 7 months old and has had about 7 or 8 different fruits/veggies. What are you're thoughts?

stephcarter · April 2013

DD absolutely hated the rice cereal and just sort of tolerated the oatmeal when we gave it to her plain. It wasn't until I gave her fruits and veggies that she started to enjoy eating. I still keep the box of oatmeal handy. I mix it with her fruits for br

pb_bride · April 2013

My pedi told me to skip cereal altogether. I've been giving fruits and veggies to DS. I make oatmeal for myself sometimes (old-fashioned oats), and I will feed the oatmeal to DS ( not baby oatmeal cereal). DS loves oatmeal - I always

grangerize · April 2013

I personally don't like how processed rice baby cereals are and skipped them for my LO. She started on veggies and fruits and I now mix this with regular organic and flax seed oatmeal for a meal once in awhile.

ChristyML · April 2013

While I tried the rice cereal, I think it's a waste of time. I personally think it smells disgusting and I even mixed it with breastmilk. DS has had a few veggies and fruits, and actually wants to eat them as opposed to (even after a few bi

DottyBlue · April 2013

I completely skipped rice cereal (it has practically zero nutritional value and there are concerns of arsenic being present in it) and I made my own oatmeal. Oats have some good nutrition in them. I just ran rolled organic oats through my f

CottonGirl · April 2013

I skipped Rice Cereal because of the arsenic concerns. We moved on to regular foods and he just loves them! However, my pedi recommended the cereal because of the iron. Supposedly, babies can start to lose iron after 6 months. So I

greyt00 · April 2013

Yes. I give DS2 3 Tbsp of oatmeal cereal every day (we never did rice -- it's nutritionally empty, and with all the arsenic stories, didn't want to feed him rice) because the pediatrician recommends it for the iron. He likes it. I also p

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