You can limit baby's exposure by
skipping rice cereal all together or using it in rotation with other whole grain, fortified cereals like oats or barley.
Cereal is a traditional beginner food, but consider
skipping rice cereal (which has some safety concerns) in favor of other nutritious grains.
I would
skip the rice cereal.
My 4MO started solids this week and he refuses the rice cereal (thick, thin, warm, cold, or mixed with sweet potato) I decided to
skip the rice cereal and just offer sweet potato and he ate it like a champ.
I agree,
skip the rice cereal.
Not exact matches
I discovered some scary things — many websites talk about how
rice cereal is bad for babies; other websites say that infant
cereals are unnecessary and can be
skipped altogether.
Some people start with
rice cereal, but I
skipped that part and went straight to the fruits and vegetables.
Anyway, the trend in the US is to offer only one thing (and people usually start with the totally disgusting
rice cereal, which by now everyone knows I hate and think people should
skip and go straight to bananas or avocado or something orange instead) for a few days because then you'll know if the baby is allergic to it before you move on to something else.
we have a 4-1/2 month old and we've been slowly introducing the baby solids to him since he demanded more and more formula (which has been for about 2 months now) everyone told me to start him on
rice cereal, we tried it and to this day it still messes his little tummy up for a few days (even though i» monly feeding him a tsp full of it with his applesauce) as far as the baby purees go he only eats applesauce, so i decided to
skip the baby applesauce and just buy the regular natural applesauce (much more — 75 % less cost wise) he loves it... i think he likes it better than the baby stuff!
We
skipped the
rice (arsenic)
cereal.
Almost everyone was breastfeeding, making their own baby foods,
skipping enriched
rice cereal or making their own version at home, and buying organic, local produce.