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Blw wholemeal bread

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feekerry · 29/11/2012 21:45

Just picking up on couple of recent threads and how wholesale bread should be avoided.my dd has prob half a slice of wholesale bread for breakfast. Why is this a problem? Would white bread be better?

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feekerry · 29/11/2012 21:45

Doh! Wholemeal

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gallicgirl · 29/11/2012 21:56

hmm I think the issue is about their ability to digest the grain?

We did BLW and I have no idea! - we tended to give a mix of wholemeal and white.
shouldn't think half a lice would be a problem. You could always vary breakfasts so she's not having bread everyday if you're concerned.

Have you checked out babyledweaning.com to see if there's any advice there?

FredFredGeorge · 30/11/2012 08:25

No food is completely out - (even honey is extremely unlikely to cause a problem over 6months), the risk is just down to zero by a year so it's not worth the tiny risk. The problem with fibre ise.g. Gov. Advice

"Low-fat, low-calorie and high-fibre
It isn?t advisable to give ?low-fat?, ?low-calorie?
or ?high-fibre? foods to babies"

"Don?t give your baby high-fibre versions
of foods, especially those with added bran.
It stops babies from absorbing important
minerals such as calcium and iron."

Obviously a bit of wholemeal bread isn't going to cause a huge problem, it's more that the fibre may be preventing them filling up on the more nutritious food that they need, and preventing absorbtion of iron/minerals.

I'd say, if it's easy to avoid wholemeal bread, do so, if it's complicated, just go low fibre in other parts of the meal.

(incidentally the phytates - what causes the low absorbtion are a bit of an argument in adults too, about what is actually "healthier", it's not as clear cut as you'd think, before white flour etc. there tended to be a lot more fermented food in the diet which removes phytates.)

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