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Starting solids at 6mo - brown rice or oatmeal cereal?
« on: February 22, 2011, 21:30:45 pm »
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I've chosen to wait till my LO is 6mo before starting him on solids. So he will be 6mo soon and I need your opinions on what to start him on. I have heard that white rice cereal causes a lot of babies to be constipated (including my niece). So I thought of starting him on either oat cereal or brown rice cereal.

Another question is: has anyone here made their own brown rice cereal or oat cereal from raw organic grains rather then buying the instant baby cereal? Is the homemade stuff better? Please advise.

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Re: Starting solids at 6mo - brown rice or oatmeal cereal?
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2011, 00:32:17 am »
I think the brown rice will be easier to digest than the oatmeal, so I would start with that.

I've never made it myself because I didn't really do cereal with my LOs, but this thread has some ideas on how to make it:
http://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=182384.0

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Re: Starting solids at 6mo - brown rice or oatmeal cereal?
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2011, 00:42:05 am »
I'm not sure where you're located, but I found an organic brown rice cereal at Toys R Us (in Canada). My DS had a bit of constipation with it, though. He loved barley cereal and had NO trouble at all ;)
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