Anyone been told not to give their kids wholemeal bread as too much fibre can give them tummy ache?

[MarkStretch]

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nope, never. I think there was something about everything being bran or wholemeal can fill up toddler tummys.

I tend to use a mixture of 50/50 (white with 50% wholemeal) or wholemeal bread for my lo's along with the occasional white loaf.

This is from the babycentre website:

A high fibre diet is not suitable for babies or young children. Occasional use of wholemeal bread, pasta and grains is fine, but too many of them could fill up your child's tummy, not allowing room for other foods. Do not add bran to your baby's food since it prevents some important minerals from being absorbed. Do offer your child a variety of different starchy foods, including wholegrain varieties, but don't use wholegrain foods exclusively until your child is five years old.

I did not know this

I always use brown bread!

Blimey, didn't know that. We only have wholegrain/wholemeal bread and pasta and DS loves his shreddies. Best cut down on them.

Yes.

I know this because only slightly brown bread gave my ds2 permanent toddler diahhroea

We have a mixture - brown granary bread, white pasta (sometimes vegetable pasta) & usually white rice, but occasionally brown so that the DS's don't object to the taste. They also love 'brown' cereals - fruit and fibre, weetabix, shreddies etc.

Yes, we had a mixture too. Only a small part brown flour to white flour - still doesn't suit all of them.

Still, on the plus side, as soon as we worked out the problem, it was easily sorted and we all have purely white flour in our bread now until ds2 is a lot bigger.

But for a 6 yr old?

should be fine for a 6 year old as the link from earlier said: but don't use wholegrain foods exclusively until your child is five years old.

nope, my two have had wholemeal from the day they were weaned. they are both fine...

You see I am very unsure about this. DSD's GP advised 'Best of both' bread..... I'm not so sure. We always have brown bread and wholewheat pasta etc. and DD has had belly ache on and off for the last few weeks but she has always eaten like this, it's not a new thing.

DP thinks it's the bread and I disagree.

No...my DDs have always had wholemeal bread...they actually prefer it...but we have white pasta

I'm sure ds1 gets a suitable amount of fried white carbs with his school dinner, and ds2's biscuit intake makes up for all the fibre in his diet

Well it won't hurt to switch to half and half for a week or two and see if there's any improvement, will it?

(and I think a lot must depend just how MUCH bread/pasta they eat - ds2 will eat toast all day if you let him...)

My DS didn't see sliced white bread until , he was 5 and he kept looking at it in amazement.

We let him try it, and he said too floppy, far too floppy. That's my boy.

We are a totally white bread family here due to this. All of my kids cannot tolerate the slightest fibre in their diet and we have to limit fresh fruit too since it gives them terrible pains, horrendous farts and diahorrea(sp). One is over 6 but when we try the brown bread in their diet it starts again. Veg has been know to pass through in under 3 hours! I don't need anything extra to help that along

Most kids will be fine with a certain amount of fibre, different if you are using a lot of fibre rich foods though.

Acouple of slices of brown bread should be OK.

I remember the dreadful ring sting when my mum made us eat allbran in the 70s.

Ha! Think I am going to have to do half and half for a while as dd's tummyache seems to be happening an hour or so after a sandwich or toast.

She will be thrilled with some white bread!

slalom - the runs associated with fruit is due to wee ones sometimes not being able to tolerate fructose in fruit (a type of sugar). Excess consumption of fruit juice has the same effect. In fact, are you sure it's not juice?

My toddler DS2 has been nicking my bran flakes at breakfast - and has been getting tummy ache a lot recently. Know now why !