Milk or Oat cereal??

Hi,


My little girl is 6 1/2 months and I've been told to start her on Oat cereal and milk cereal but I've never heard of them. Does anyone else's baby have that in their diet or just the rice cereal? Please can you recommend brands too.

I would appreciate any advice.

I used a variety of grain cereals.


started with white rice cereal, then brown, then barley, then oat and then a mix.


I'm not sure what milk cereal is - could they have meant mixed?

Hi hkchoichoi


I also started with the rice then have moved to a green one all in the Heinz group as this was the only rice cereal my daughter took to. Which rice cereals did you use or did you make your own?

The chart the peditrican gave me just says milk or oatmeal cereal so am not too sure what exactley it is, i'd never heard of it either.

I used Earth's best Organic.


I forget, but one of them Heinz or Nestle has added sugar and salt in it, so check your labels carefully.


AFter about 3 months, I just made my own sort of gruel with a bunch of different rice mixes.


Maybe he means milk with cereal?


Oatmeal is readily available in the Earth's Best group.

It is Nestle that isn't well recommended, the Heinz is realitively safe although they cannot guarentee the source. I will move onto Earth's Best group though as I used their fruit and veg purees and that brand does come highly recommended.

This may be a silly question but how did you make the rice mixes? Did you boil it down and puree it? Also when did your bub start fish and meat?

My daughter didnt' start fish and meat until she was a year. I raised both girls vegetarian until they were a year.


the mixed grain porridge - I did two ways. SOmetimes I made regular steamed mix rice for the family and then took a portion of that and boiled it with more water and cooked it down more and then pureed it.


Alternatively I just took the grains and cooked them in a pressure cooker with more water than necessary and then pureed that. BOth are very similar in texture, it's just that sometimes the family needed steamed rice too so it was convenient to be able to make it that way.


I have a food feeding schedule if you'd like. It's based on Ruth Yaron's Super BAby foods.

I would love to take a look at it as the one I have is bit confusing and not specific enough for me to follow. How you prefer emailing it than posting it?

I will send it to your PM. Under your user name which is listed on the upper left hand side of the screen, you will see something called "control panel" - click onto it and there will be a place to send and check messages. I will send it there.


THere is one with just a listing of what foods to introduce what month.


And then there is another where I list exactly what I fed my own baby - it goes for about 3 months and then I stopped keeping track but it might prove useful.

heinz has organic cereals too.

i have used organix, earth's best and bellamy's before. started off with rice cereal before moving on to oatmeal. at almost 12 months, baby is still eating oatmeal every morning but with the portions he takes, we use readybrek (part of the weetabix family).


never heard of "milk cereal" either - perhaps your doc is referring to the baby white rice cereal that you make up with milk. i actually started off with nestle but that was too sweet~!

Wow, I think differently than everyone here! This may seem strange to say, my vote would be to use your common sense and trust your own judgment. When it comes to your baby,you are the expert. There will be many times during parenthood when you're just going to have to make the best decision you can, sometimes even contradicting "expert" advice if you truly and sincerely, with much thought, believe that your course of action is the best for your child. In introducint solids, the most important thing is to introduce only one food at a time, look for a food reaction, and if you see one withdraw that food. Feed a large enough quantity each day that you would know if there were an allergic reaction, observe for one, and then wait a week to introduce the next, new food and follow the same cycle over again. So, in seven weeks you would be able to introduce 7 new foods. Begin with foods that provide good nutrition and are known for being non-allergic. You can make up the fortified rice cereal (or oat cereal, your choice of course!) using your baby's normal formula. In fact, this MAY be what is meant by "milk cereal". Personally, I started my babies off on things they were begging for from the family dinner table. Bananas (mashed with a fork), real rice (mashed with a fork), sweet potatoes, veal, tiny bits of carrot, blueberry. One of my childrens' favorite foods were tiny bits of fruit they could practice picking up with their tiny fingers. Non-sweetened cereals that can be picked up with fingers, such as cheerios. Triumphant when they got it. Avoid sugar and empty calories such as fruit juices! Strive to build independence and pride by giving them food they can feed to themselves and then allowing them freedom to fail and make big messes. Also ask, what nutrition is in the cereal you are offering? Get in the habit of reading labels, buying organic when possible, and making sure the food is healthy.