Moms who are starting cereal, what are you doing about rice?

In light of the findings of arsenic in rice, my DD's pediatrician said not to give it to her more than once per week. However, since I have to give a food for 3 days before introducing something new, I figure I'll start with it, give it for the 3 days, then stick mostly with oatmeal (and barley, if i can get it dairy-free). What are you planning on doing?

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I hadn't heard about this issue, but just wanted to say that my DS hated the rice cereal. So we did it a few days and ended up throwing out the rest.

I think you can skip rice altogether too.

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i gave oatmeal and the multi grain cereal and didn't give rice cereal at all.

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We started rice before the arsenic scare, but the issue I had with it was that it constipated her so badly.
So we just gave it to her that first week, realized it was really backing her up, then moved on to oatmeal and barley.
She never got rice again after that.

I would say you can just give it to her the 3 days to make sure she is not allergic and then stop it completely.
It's really not necessary in their diet and it really does bind them!

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We are skipping rice. We started with oatmeal and whole wheat cereals before we moved onto veggies

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We started with oatmeal.

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We are skipping rice this time around. We'll start with oatmeal or barley next month when ds is 5 months old.

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I skipped the rice and went straight to oatmeal.. she loves it!

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I skipped it too. I just started dd on oatmeal and than ill move to barley and mixed cereal

Moms who are starting cereal, what are you doing about rice?

we started with oatmeal and never tried rice

Moms who are starting cereal, what are you doing about rice?

I never did rice cereal, just oatmeal and then to veggies.

Moms who are starting cereal, what are you doing about rice?

I think i am going to start with veggies. My twins didn't like rice much, but they loved oatmeal. When my 2 month old is ready for solids, i think i want to skip oatmeal all together, and start with veggies and then fruits.

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I skipped rice altogether but because DS has a constipation problem and the ped didn't want it getting worse. I went right to oatmeal. You do not have to start with rice

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DD was started on solids last sunday. I was debating skipping cereal all together butthe avocados i had weren't ripe so I did oatmeal. I ground my own whole oats, cooked it in water and thinned with BM. she liked it! did it for a few days (just once a day) and now we are doing sweet potatoes and then avocados.

like everyone said, you do not have to do rice or even cereal as a first food.

Moms who are starting cereal, what are you doing about rice?

I'm going to discuss this with my ped but I don't plan to give it to this baby (once he/she arrives that is!). I will probably go with the oatmeal if my ped is ok with it (and I don't see why they wouldn't be).

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We went with Plum Organics probiotic oatmeal. I add it to veggies to thicken them up sometimes.

Moms who are starting cereal, what are you doing about rice?

We also skipped rice and started with oatmeal and then threw in the mixed grain for some variety.

FYI...Mixed Grain absorbs more formula per serving so if your DD has an issue with drinking an entire bottle like mine did I would use the mixed grain because then I knew she was getting a good amount of formula per day.

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