Baby Rice & porridge help!

Idk if this is the 'right' way to do it, but this is how I'm doing it lol. I started by giving my baby plain rice cereal, nothing else in it, to avoid potential allergens and get her used to the texture (trying it about once or twice a day) and then giving her a bottle afterwards. After a week or two, then I started her on some purees. With purees, you want to do just one at a time, and try it for a few days to make sure they're not allergic before trying anything else. Then you can move onto another food, and keep going from there ^^

According to your profile Your baby is 3 months old? If so that’s far too early to be introducing anything that’s not milk.

Baby rice has zero nutritional value, its so outdated to use this stuff so I 💯 wouldn't. Once your baby is 6 months old you can go straight onto BLW. It is not recommend to wean before 6 months unless medically advised.

Neither are required nor have any nutritional value. Wait until your baby is 6 months and meets all the signs of readiness and go straight into giving them what you eat but modified. Milk is more than enough for them until a minimum of 6 months. Early weaning can cause life long digestive issues the gut just isn’t ready. By filling them up with empty calories you’ll be taking away the vital nutrition they need from milk

Based on your profile you have a 3 month old. The NHS guidance is not to wean before 6 months until medically advised, and only if baby is showing signs of readiness. Reason is that babies gut hasn’t matured enough to cope with food, and weaning too early can cause allergies or long term digestive issues. Also baby rice doesn’t have any nutritional value, you don’t want baby to take less milk by filling up with rice or porridge, because milk is where they get all their nutrition from till around 6 months

https://www.nhs.uk/start-for-life/baby/weaning/

I will comment without judgment like other moms. I started my baby on cereal around 5 months because he was a bit on smaller side i would say start with baby rice but start very small like one spoon per bottle and try only doing 2-3 bottles a day babies get constipated when u start cereal so is important not to add more than 1 spoon

When baby starts to sit up properly you can introduce it as a porridge dont add any sugar or anything but u can blend it with avocado for added fats

@Noelle you should never add anything to a bottle. Putting baby rice in a bottle is a huge choking hazard - especially for a baby as young as 3 months old

@Yasmin my family has been adding cereal and porridge to bottles for decades each parent can do it at their own risk. Cultures are different

I started on baby porridge, I did one meal a day and when she was used to that I changed to purees which I made myself. I started on banana and did the usual sweet potato, broccoli, parsnip, apple and pear and then started to mix some together. I also used sachet occasionally and finger snacks. You will know what's right for your baby

I put a few scoops of plain rice cereal in my son’s milk bottle at 4 months old, I was given the advice from his paediatrician as he was a very hungry baby. That got him used to the flavour and I gradually started adding more and more powder and less milk to a bowl to make a porridge consistency. I used to feed him that after his morning bottle of milk. As in my case he was 4 months old and the formula was more nutritious than the rice powder I would rather he fill up on that first then eat whatever he can of the rice powder x

So as many mums have already stated in bottles isn’t the way to go/is a hazard, rice cereal has no nutritional value, it basically fills them up on nothing and takes up room for actual nutrition and rice cereals actually contain arsenic. as Noelle has stated each parent can do what they like but it’s at yours/your babies own risk.

@Noelle just because people have been doing something for years doesn't make it safe!

Hey, I started with some blended steamed veg, just one. It’s better to introduce a vegetable that’s not sweet like blended avocado, or peas. But if you’d like to start with porridge you can blend some oats in a blender until they’re in a fine powder (we use M&S organic Scottish oats), start with 5g of oats in a pan and mix with 60ml formula or breast milk and cook on a medium heat for around 5 mins. My baby started at 5.5 months as their digestive system isn’t developed enough until this age and it can cause long term stomach or digestive issues. They should also be able to sit up and hold their head up to avoid choking, but to each their own, and you make the best decision for your family 😊