Baby Food

Question: Will it affect my baby if she's not eating her baby cereal?

(Posted by: on 2012-02-03 15:52:56)

She's on stage 1 foods right now.. she lovess the fruit & veggie purees, but she wont eat her cereal! im a little worried because the dr. told us to give her both..

Posted by: Cecily on 2012-02-03, 15:54:48

Er, no. There's no need to give her baby cereal ever. I mean it's pretty bland and tasteless anyway... Please note that doctors are not nutritionists...

Posted by: ? on 2012-02-03, 15:58:58

Have you tried mixing a little cereal in with the baby food she likes, that always worked for me with my kids.

Posted by: asrai on 2012-02-03, 16:22:54

Until one food is for fun, not really to meet her nutritional requirements. Cereal is recommended because back in the day formula was home made and didn't have a lot of iron and breastmilk was thought not to contain iron (it does in very low, highly absorbed quantities). ONly about 30% of iron is absorped through the cereal

Posted by: K on 2012-02-03, 16:28:02

Will it affect her? Sure, she'll be healthier not eating that junk. She really does not need or benefit from highly refined starch like that. Good links on cereal: answers.yahoo.com/ question/ index?qid= 20080321134522AAJdBps usatoday.com/ yourlife/ parenting-family/ babies/ 2010-12-01-babyfood01_st_N.htm Try to keep in mind that when your doctor throws out that sort of suggestion -- it is not medical advice. Hopefully "on stage 1 foods " does not mean the kid is _entirely_ fed the jarred stuff? A diet of nothing but processed foods is not good for anybody. She can have the same fresh foods the rest of the family is eating. Also of interest: msnbc.msn.com/ id/ 9646449/ ns/ health-kids_and_parenting/ t/ experts-seek-debunk-baby-food-myths/ cspinet.org/ reports/ cheat1.html There is no need to go in "stages " -- that is a myth used to hawk baby food and nothing else.

Posted by: ? on 2012-02-03, 20:04:51

My son wouldn't eat rice cereal at all. After trying different things we found he would eat the gerber oatmeal cereal but only if I mix some fruit into it. I just eye ball the cereal and when I first started out I would add 1/ 4 a jar of fruit to the cereal now he eats much more so I add a jar to quite a bit of cereal. You could try that :)