Baby rice and oatbran for toddlers

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Is baby rice and oatbran okay to give to a 13mo old?

We started with meals I was cooking the family and mashing/pureeing/cutting up. Pasta, rice, lots of mince meat, all sorts of veg. She was eating most of it. But at 12mos (as portion sizes increased) we started having problems with acidic poo/recurrent nappy rash, and other digestive issues.

So I scaled back and for the past month or so I've been feeding her lots of baby rice mixed with lentils, fruits, and oatbran. I still give her our food daily, but in smaller quantities. He nappy rash and digestive issues have improved markedly!

When I read about baby rice and oatbran however, there were some sources which suggest neither are appropriate for babies/toddlers (one source suggested for any child below 5yo!).

Does anyone know more about this? I assumed oatbran in particular was a healthy choice - full of fibre, protein, iron, very filling, and entirely unprocessed.

Thanks!

Not sure about baby rice but oats can be quite abrasive on the gut. Some people can't break them down easily and I imagine this is even harder for babies.
Quinoa or buckwheat are good alternatives

But oatbran is just the outer part of the oat so easier to digest than the full oat I think? Might give the HV a ring and see if they can advise!

Baby rice has little nutritional value so I wouldn't serve that. Oat bran is fine but can't really be the main staple of a baby/toddlers diet.
If your child has dietary issues you need to find out the source so you can eliminate that from the diet before reintroducing appropriately at a later stage. You shouldn't just restrict their whole diet. Perhaps see the GP in the first instance.

The plan has been to eliminate the reintroduce certain foods that might be causing the acidic poo/nappy rash in particular. I use a lot of tinned tomatoes and tomato puree in my cooking so we cut that out first. The other thing i was worried about was spices (paprika, cumin mostly).

I have actually been to the GP with this 3 times and they've been no help! They've just suggested different nappy creams.

But I am really worried about her diet generally. She's 13mo, 3 meals a day (and snacks). But I cannot reduce her milk intake. She was combination fed until 7mos, and is now on formula and whole milk. She's tall for her age, but her weight is also in the top 98 percentile. So I'm worried a lot about the milk (in addition to everything else). GPs and HVs really haven't been much help. They give us generic advice like keep her nappy off, give her milk in an open cup, cut her bottles down to 2 a day- none of this works with her however hard I try.