What age can you give wheatabix?

[Thomcat]

That's it really....what's the earliest yu can start then on it, using breast or formula milk.

[psychomum5]

erm.....I think from when ever you are allowed to give them foods containing gluten in. Is that 6 or 9mnths??

god, I'm no help am I

sorry...there will be others better clued than me tho

[Janbo25]

I started giving them to my son at 6 mts with formulas milk

[Ledodgyherring]

I tried my ds on weetabix this morning he'll be 7 months next week, I think someone recommended it on another thread, I was a bit worried about the salt content but he only eats a miniscule amount anyway this has been the biggest hit with him foodwise so far.

[FrannyandZooey]

In theory you can give wheat from 6 months although some people prefer to wait a bit longer, as wheat foods can be hard to digest and some people are intolerant. Weetabix has sugar and salt in, so I wouldn't choose it as a weaning food anyway. Something like porridge or ready brek is better IMO.

[Thomcat]

Great, thanks. Will pick up ready brek. I remember doing that with lotie now, it's all coming back to me.
Cheers girls.

[Ledodgyherring]

Yeah i'm going to get some ready brek too, is that not high in salt now? Because I know it used to be.

[Ledodgyherring]

ahh i've just checked and it's low, brilliant will get some tommorrow.

[Seona1973]

there is not that much salt in weetabix and it is easy to make - an adult portion of 2 biscuits has 1/4 a gram of salt so a portion given when weaning e.g. half a biscuit would only contain 1/16th a gram of salt

From 6 months you can make up cereal using full fat cows milk - I used to heat the milk, add to the weetabix and let it go soft and then mix in some fruit puree/mashed fruit to add flavour.

weetabix is ok from 6 months as is ready brek.

[schneebly]

My DSs didn't seem to tolerate them very well when tried at around 8-9 months (came out looking the same in nappy!) but when tried again at 12-13 months were fine but they prefer porridge anyway.

[Janbo25]

I give my son the organice weetabix and they seem to be a lot better

[nappyaddict]

6 months, but you can use cows milk if you want.

[louii]

Hipp do their own version of weetabix as well.