Baby rice and rumblings

[ellasmum]

Hi..

I have just started giving my 17 week old DD baby rice in the evenings. She is still exclusively breastfed (won't take a bottle which is a real pain).

I have noticed that her tummy seems to make loud gurgling noises quite a few hours after the baby rice feed - infact I am wondering if this is why she has started waking up 4-5 times in the night now.

Did anyone else find this when they started baby rice?

[SueDonim]

This isn't something any of mine have experienced, Ellasmum, but you could stop giving your dd baby rice for a few days and see if it helps. If rice is the culprit, you could leave it for a couple of weeks and try again later.

[mears]

See all other info on starting solids. I would stop it. If you leave solids until nearer 6 months you can omit rice altogether.

[chinchilla]

You could try giving it to her at lunch time, which is the meal that my book said to start weaning with. This would give the tummy a chance to digest the food before bedtime.

Good luck

[ionesmum]

Ellasmum, baby rice didn't agree with our dd at first. Our old hv said that baby rice turns to water in their tummy but I'm not sure about that. I found that dd was happier on simple puree - pear, carrot or apricot - for quite a while and is now having a teaspoon of rice in her puree with no ill effects at 24 weeks. If your dd is happy on her b/fs I would leave off weaning for a while, we carried on as dd was v. hungry and needed fruit to stop her constipation being bottle-fed.

BTW our dd prefers her solids in the evening too.

[wmf]

Baby rice constipated my DS, so I'm glad I didn't start with it! I too gave simple purees - carrot first, then sweet potato - mostly because he had a tendency to constipation, but also because breastmilk and formula are sweet. Have you tasted baby rice? Yuck, tasteless. I also always gave new foods at lunchtime, that way you can more easily see any reactions, and not lose precious sleep as a result.