Did you introduce all three cereals before you introduced friut?

Hi! I started DS on rice cereal last week per pediatrician's instructions. He's doing well on it - once a day, 2 tablespoons. He's eating it all. She said to switch to oatmeal if rice constipates him. He is pooping mostly everday, but it is noticably harder. She said to introduce stage 1 fruits after increasing cereal to twice a day and he starts "enjoying" it. She didn't say anything about introducing other cereals before introducing fruit (only oatmeal if constipated and didn't mention barley at all). I'm thinking of introducing oatmeal before fruit so I can at least alternate the two cereals and hopefully prevent too much rice from constipating him.

Does your pediatrician recommend introducing fruits (or veggies, every ped is different) after one type of cereal, or does yours recommend introducing all three cereals first?

Thanks so much for your help!

Re: Did you introduce all three cereals before you introduced friut?

i did each cereal for a week (we started at 4 months so i felt i had a lot of time) then we did all stage 1 veggies - then fruits

Re: Did you introduce all three cereals before you introduced friut?

I still have not done the barley. DD is 5 months and I just started Stage 2 fruits

Re: Did you introduce all three cereals before you introduced friut?

Our ped said cereal (we skipped rice due to possible constipation issues), then veggies, then fruits.

Re: Did you introduce all three cereals before you introduced friut?

i was told veggies before fruits so DD doesnt get turned off foods that are not sweet.

We're doing rice cereal right now (DD is almost 4.5 months). NO constipation issues so far

Re: Did you introduce all three cereals before you introduced friut?

I did all three cereals, veggies and then fruits.

Re: Did you introduce all three cereals before you introduced friut?

I didn't. We skipped rice cause of constipation issues and went right to Oatmeal.
I didn't do the barley-she wasn't too fond of the cereals anyways.

ETA: I did Oatmeal Cereal, then veggies, then fruits

Message edited 9/5/2007 11:10:49 AM.

Re: Did you introduce all three cereals before you introduced friut?

We did all 3 cereals first, then fruits, then veggies.

Re: Did you introduce all three cereals before you introduced friut?

I did rice, then oatmeal, now we are doing veggies....

I plan to do all of the veggies and then the fruit

Re: Did you introduce all three cereals before you introduced friut?

We did rice cereal, then oatmeal and then added fruits. We are starting the stage one veggies in a few days

Re: Did you introduce all three cereals before you introduced friut?

We did rice, then oatmeal, then veggies. DD actually had pooping problems with the oatmeal, not the rice, so we added prunes pretty quickly after that.

Re: Did you introduce all three cereals before you introduced friut?

We tried rice but it constipated DD right away. We went to barley next and we stuck with it. We never did oatmeal. I know lots of people do veggies first but we opted to do fruit first. She loved all fruits and when we introduced veggies, she loved all of them too.

Re: Did you introduce all three cereals before you introduced friut?

Re: Did you introduce all three cereals before you introduced friut?