Those that began rice cereal at 4 mts old

What is the natural food progression here? Cailen is totally eating this stuff... Do I just give him rice cereal for the next 2 mts, or do I give him anything else?

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Ok, this is what I did. (you'll get differing answers on this one) We did cereal for the 1st month. A week of oatmeal(suggested by Dr due to her stomach issues), a week of rice. We were going to do a week of barley, but opted against it. Instead we alternated a day of oatmeal, a day of rice. The last week I started giving her cereal 2x a day. By the end of the month she was taking 1T of each, one at breakfast, one at dinner. At 5 months, according to my drs wishes, we began veggies then fruit. Hope this helps.

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We did Rice cereal, then alternated with oatmeal and barley (a few days each). DS seems to enjoy the oatmeal best.

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I did something similar - I did rice for a week, then oatmeal for a week, also opted against the barley. I did 2 tbsp in the morning.

After the 2 weeks of just cereal I added fruits (stage 1.) I would just put a little in her cereal. I would try each fruit for 3 days to check for allergies.

After I made it through all the fruits, I added a veggie at lunch (she was 5+ months). Again trying one veggie at a time for at least 3 days.

Once I finished trying all the veggies, I moved to stage 2 and started the meat/veggie combos for dinner (she was a 6+ months).

I also started cheerios, puffs, cut up fresh fruit and water in a sippy at 6 months. She did great.

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Why did you guys opt against barley?

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I used Organic Oatmeal, Rice and regular Barley (organic doesn't exist). I also use a multi-grain organic variety that I found at BRU.

I fed them cereal only for 2 months and started w/ fruits and veggies at 6 months.

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Thanks ladies - this was very helpful!!!

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We started Ava on veggies probably around 4-4.5 months. She started cereal at 3 months to help her reflux and the kid just kept eating and eating, so we added veggies. We never used anything other than oatmeal because she had a reaction to rice and bad gas from barley.

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My doc actually gave us a schedule, which I found super helpful.

They steered us away from rice since it was binding...so we did oatmeal and barley and then mixed. Barley wound up being her fave so go figure.

When she turned 5 months we started veggies...orange first and then green.
cereal 2x a day with veggie.

Month 6 was fruits and also yogurt. Cereal 3x a day with a veggie for one and a fruit for another.

Meats was month 7 and 8...starting table foods, puffs, and also tried the cup then too (hahahahahaha for the cup at 7 months old)she liked the stage 3 meals a lot...this is when we replaced a "meal" of cereal with the stage 3's....

It's fun and frustrating...but they adapt pretty quick.
Good Luck and don't stress if they refuse it a lot or a whole meal. Ped made it clear that most of their nutrition up until a year comes from formula...

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