| Subject: rice ceral or veggies at 4 mnths |
| Logibear |
My baby is 4 mnths old and i have introduced your organic rice cereal as the clinic sister told me that i should now as he has doubled his birth weight and is ready.He is eating a whole serving in the morning about an hour /half an hour after his morning feed.I only started two days ago giving him the cereal mixed with his formula in a bowl and he eats off the spoon and loves it.Your weening chart suggests to only start dec and start on veggies? please can you tell me if i should rather wait or start on veggies and stop the cereal. |
| Daddio |
Hi
This is a fascinating question.
Most the advice on weaning I have found suggests starting with cereal, usually rice, from the beginning.
However this is strange, when one considers that cereals are far more likely to produce allergy than vegetables, and that there is much data available showing that cereal takes up to 8 or 10 times as long to digest as high-carbohydrate vegetables do.
This may have something to do with the relatively very recent (circa 10,000 years) arrival of grains as a staple in the human diet.
Considering the little one's tummy is having to learn digestion from the very beginning, I would think it makes sense to 'walk before you run' and start with the simpler form of carbohydrate rich foods, ie starchy vegetables, such as squash and sweet potato (nb ordinary potato is a member of the nightshade family - along with tomato, aubergine and peppers - and should be approached with caution).
I am very pleased to see that Olli do not recommend cereal until the 8th week of weaning. Bravo! I have printed your guide to show to my partner :)
It should be noted that some sources have advised that no gluten-cereals and in some cases, no cereals at all, should be given until one or even two years of age, and that early introduction to, especially gluten-cereals, may be linked to coeliac disease and/or other allergies/sensitivities in later life.
Apologies if I'm being a bit heavy -
Lightness and love are more important still!
Best wishes to one and all,
Daddio
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