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I made her oatmeal from steel cut oats and also give quinoa when she was older. As well as congee from white rice and brown rice but all home made.

Quinoa has been one of our go-to's from the get go. We mixed it with squash or hummus, even yogurt. She would gobble it up. She still loves it but now she wants to use her spoon and it gets EVERYWHERE!

We introduced oatmeal around 6 months and did not do any "infant cereals." I think all the grains you mentioned would be good to try. FWIW even though we did BLW with Lorelei, she still is gearing up to be about as picky as big sis who was a more traditional puree baby.

Our kids gagged on whole grain oatmeal, but steel cut might be ok, we used oatmeal cereal and mixed it with sunflower butter and they loved it, even though they didn't love purees in general.

I make a barley veggie stir fry at least once a week and they really love it. I use pearl barley, and some combo of red/orange/yellow peppers, mushrooms, and snow peas - if the veggies are soft and/or small enough, there shouldn't be reason to worry.

We skipped rice cereal, but started doing oatmeal cereal with fruit once she started eating breakfast regularly. She loved it, and it helped her poop.

@wheres_c: I think cooking it well will be just fine! When we started at 6 months, our son would gag often & I, while I wasn't too worried about choking, I did feel bad because gagging is Not a Fun Feeling. We pulled back and tried again at 7.5 months & he rarely gags now. So you could try again in a few months, if you want.