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rice cereal or oatmeal?

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  • amie444amie444 member
    If I do cereal at all it will be oatmeal. My pedi says no rice. It is just empty calories. I also won't introduce solids until the earliest 6 months and then I will be doing Baby Led Weaning.

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  • LisaLisa1980LisaLisa1980 member
    Oats are healthier
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  • thatoneredheadthatoneredhead member
    If I ever had another, I wouldn't do any. By the time they are old enough for it, they can have better stuff, nutritionally and in tastiness. 
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  • iumegan716iumegan716
    We will do oatmeal, based on our ped's recommendation.  There is arsenic in rice so it is not recommended (unless the rice comes from outside of the US).
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  • MrsWindyCityMrsWindyCity member
    We'll eventually do oatmeal here and there, but it's not our intro food.
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  • bibby32714bibby32714 member
    We started with oatmeal at our pedi's recommendation.

     

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  • jbatchjbatch member

    I did oatmeal.. I don't really have a reason..


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  • KLL22KLL22 member
    If I had to I would do oatmeal. There is no reason to have to start with cereal of some sort. I'm personally going to start with avocado.
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  • minerswife17minerswife17 member
    We tried rice for a few days but stopped when I heard about the arsenic in it. Tried oatmeal today and she loved it! She ate almost all of it compared to the rice where she would barely even eat half.
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  • mrsdeannamrsdeanna member
    DS1 hated rice cereal but loved oatmeal. I will start oatmeal with DS2 when we decide to start solids.
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  • JenniD2JenniD2 member
    We had started DS on Oatmeal when he was 4 1/2 months, but he didn't care for it. Once he hits 6 months, we are going to try avocados instead of trying the oatmeal cereal again.
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  • cbelle1231cbelle1231 member
    I started with oatmeal because formula was not satiating him any more. He did really well with the oatmeal, it did not constipate him and he seems to really like it.
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  • mhickey426mhickey426 member
    My pedi said rice first for a week or 2 then oats. She is loving the rice and I only do it before bed AFTER her bottle to help her through the night. I am going to start introducing rice and oats more to get her ready for veggies and fruit.

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  • Pearls+OystersPearls+Oysters member
    Honestly, neither. If I really wanted to I'd go with oatmeal. But I'm doing my own purees and starting him on veggies at / around 6 months. As per pedi, once he hits 40oz of milk / 24h, it's time for solids. At 21 weeks he's been drinking 36 to 38oz a day. Not quite there yet!
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  • tig594tig594 member
    edited August 2013
    I am planning on oats unless her pedi suggests otherwise.
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  • ShoecrazysarahShoecrazysarah member
    iumegan716 said:

    We will do oatmeal, based on our ped's recommendation.  There is arsenic in rice so it is not recommended (unless the rice comes from outside of the US).

    FYI... my DH rec'd his undergrad in soil science. Arsenic is a naturally occurring metal in soils all over the globe. Rice specifically uptakes aresenic from the soil. Soooo, if you are worried about arsenic in rice I would avoid it no matter where it comes from.

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  • MNMC1228MNMC1228 member
    We skipped rice and went straight to oatmeal with a fruit. 
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  • jbraspjbrasp
    Due to my allergies...we started with rice cereal it gave my son horrible diahera (sp)  so we switched to oatmeal
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  • chellebell82chellebell82 member
    We started with rice, partially due to the pediatrician's recommendation and partly because of my allergy to wheat (which happens to be in many oatmeal cereals). I have to say that I am a bit confused as to why so many people are saying that rice cereal is just empty calories. This is what I have found when I looked up empty calories https://www.choosemyplate.gov/weight-management-calories/calories/empty-calories.html. If this is what empty calories really are, then rice cereal in my mind is not empty calories. Yes, it may not be the most nutritious option out there, but saying it's empty calories just doesn't make sense to me. 
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  • musicalmama5musicalmama5 member
    We haven't done any cereals. We're doing BLW also, so he's had bananas, avocados, cucumbers, apples, carrots, bread, and peaches.

    I think people say rice cereal is empty calories because it doesn't have much nutritional value besides carbs. Here are the nutrition facts for rice cereal: https://www.fns.usda.gov/fdd/facts/hhpfacts/New_HHPFacts/Other/HHFS_INFANT-RICE-CEREAL_B161_Final.pdf Notice that there's a good amount of iron, a bit of calcium and vitamin A, but not much other than that.

    There's no reason to do cereals at all. Babies can get all the nutrition they need from "regular" food that we eat, providing it doesn't have added salt or sugar.
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  • MwithchildMwithchild member
    Rice cereal because we're Asian and he lOves it. Lol.
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