Did you do any other type of cereal (oatmeal, quinoa, barley)?
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None with E because she was FF, but we do oatmeal with T for the iron
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No, we skipped cereal entirely. Started with egg yolk, then avocado, banana, etc. First grain he got was around 8 or 9 months when I bought some pouches with oatmeal in them. After that I started adding oatmeal or quinoa to his purees.
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We did oatmeal sporadically, but wish we had been more consistent due to the iron. LO ended up anemic and had several rounds of blood work as a result.
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We did a little oatmeal in a pinch when I got lazy.
We didn't do it until later on when I was trying to get her to eat different textures.
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We did oatmeal occasionally.
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Yes, we do oatmeal. Our pediatrician actually suggests that we skip rice cereal all together because it's known to cause constipation.
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We've used oatmeal and quinoa. Now I'll mix in some fage yogurt and applesauce or fruit. We are doing BLW with some purees.
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With LO1 we never did grains until she was much older.
With LO2 we started with oatmeal because 1) she has reflux and I was terrified to start other goods again because or first go at solids did not go well. 2) dinner is crunch time and I wasn't super back into meal planning yet and making sure she could eat some of our dinner felt overwhelming to me. We also do a mix of BLW and purees. Now at 8 months, I usually only feed her oatmeal if we don't have any other food lol
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We started with green veggies: avocado, sweet peas. Then we moved to orange veggies and we introduced egg yolks pretty early. We have him oatmeal eventually, but our pediatrician wasn't into rice cereal.
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Oatmeal
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We did oatmeal to ward off constipation.
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We fed him oatmeal - at first we put it through the food processor to make it finer and mixed to with applesauce and cinnamon, then as he got bigger we just cooked it whole.
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We did some oatmeal, mostly for iron and something easy to feed when I was lazy (we did BLW mostly). Now I use the rest to mix into pancakes for her.
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Nope! Nothing. I mean now she has oatmeal time to time as part of her breakfast.
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Oatme and barley. Some pouches with quinoa.
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We did no cereals for either kid. They had grains--rice, pasta, toast, crackers--if that's what we were having for a meal. Both had fine hemaglobin counts at 9 months, so iron wasn't an issue for either child.
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Nope. We did start giving him granola pretty early by maybe 8-9 months but I make my own that doesn't have any seeds or nuts in it, and is only sweetened with molasses.
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Nothing!
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Occasionally oatmeal but nothing consistent.
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We did oatmeal as a breakfast food for iron (and because that's what we eat as adults - I just ground up regular Quaker oats).
I made sure to do a lot of iron-rich veggies like sweet potato, squash, mushrooms. I even pureed some black beans to mix with banana or sweet potato, but she ate them inconsistently.
We also introduced meat (non-pureed) as soon as we thought she could handle it - started with shredded chicken from the crockpot.
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We did quinoa cereal! We used a food milk to grind it then boil it.
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No, no cereal.
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We didn't do any oatmeal or cereals in the beginning. Now at a year J has oatmeal every day because he likes it and it's easy.
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We tried oatmeal once (she seemed to hate it). But we had already been doing purées at that point too.
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We did some oatmeal cereal because the ped said the extra fiber would help with his constipation.
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Oatmeal on occasion, but not until a while later. I probably should have done it sooner since both of my kids are anemic.
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I would do homemade steel cut oats "cereal" with applesauce for breakfast. I just put the steel cut oats in a coffee grinder then cook it in milk for a few minutes. Cool down with cold applesauce.
When DD was constipated I would cook steel cut oats in water with flaxseed. That was always sure to get her going!
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Thanks everyone! I think I'll pick up some oatmeal to keep on hand.
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We did different whole/ancient grains described like @regberadaisy:'s method with grinding them up and cooking them (I used water). It can b
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We do buckwheat cereal. DD loves it and has it every morning.
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Nope. She has hardly had any grains, other than a bite here and there of something I'm eating. (She LOVES buttermilk biscuit, shocker).
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We skipped and started with a mix of veggie purées and BLWing.
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We did a little oatmeal, but I don't think we even finished one container before she just transitioned to more "real" food
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We didn't. Went right to fruits and veggies.
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We started with oatmeal but he didn't really like it. Avocado was his 2nd food, which he loves.
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@macintosh: i gave avocado to my dd the other night and she definitely wasn't too sure about it.
We didn't do it until later on when I was trying to get her to eat different textures.
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