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We didn't give him grain until past 9 months because I researched it and found that babies don't possess the digestive enzyme for grains until they're older!

Quinoa also isn't a grain, it's a seed - but you can start that at 8 months. I ground quinoa in the blender until it was very fine, then I cooked it like porridge/oatmeal and mixed in pureed fruit.

We never really ground oatmeal though you definitely can prior to cooking it. It's small enough though that when we started him on it he could easily eat it.

We held off on any other grain until he was much older. He is 18 months now and we'll give him an open faced sandwich on sprouted wheat bread.

I used the rice cereal for the first week of introducing solids. At 7 months I started her on regular oatmeal. I grind it a bit but it still leaves larger pieces so it has a chunkier consistency. I usually mix it with fruit/veggies purees for added flavor.

I didn't buy the baby stuff. I eat oatmeal all the time so I just ran it through the blender until it was a powder and then made it for LO. Or I'd make the oatmeal, add some fruit, and then throw the whole batch in the blender.

I occasionally ground rice and oats, cooked them, and added them to some homemade purees, but not until DD was a little older- maybe 9-10 months. Quinoa was something she didn't handle well until even older. I don't really think a lot of grains are necessary for babies, and we also did BLW in conjunction with some purees, so she ate toast and things and had plenty of grains.

Total waste. I ground up oatmeal and stirred it into fruit purees. But I abandoned that pretty quickly in favor of fruit and veggie chunky purees.