Baby rice.

[Mumofbeth161118]

Hi lovely mums.
So I'm wanting to start using baby rice with my little girl as she has started waking through the night hungry. How did everyone else introduce it? Do you give it when they are due a feed along with a bottle and what are the best times to give it? Also how many times a day do you give it?
TIA
x

Don’t use baby rice, it had no nutritional value. You can give tons of other healthy, tasty foods that baby will enjoy rather than sawdust!

If you want something really smooth, pop oats in the food processor and grind till fine and give baby that. Or fruit or veg purées. Or just do baby led weaning so baby can have real food straight away. Just not baby rice!

Avoid baby rice like the plague. Horrible stuff.

How old is your little one?

If you want to use baby rice to introduce texture I read to not put it in a bottle ... prob just more of a texture introduction rather than flavour ... not tried it yet so can’t fully comment ... good luck with the weaning ... my plan is to do a bit of baby rice and Leo baby lead weaning ... 3 days of baby rice then homemade pea purée .... etc x x

My son loves baby rice and can't eat oats because it gives him terrible diarrhoea so porridge is a no go for us

I gave it once a day for breakfast when I started weaning him. How old is your baby? I wouldn't introduce it before 5 months, preferably 6

It's more likely the waking up is a development stage, if that's the case filling them up on baby rice porobwbly wont make any difference.

Baby rice has no nutritional value, so if it replaces milk feeds then it means the baby will be missing out on nutrients test if needs.

If your baby is old enough to start weaning you can pretty much just give them normal food, pureed if you prefer.

I never really fed my DC baby rice, as it looked and tasted rather like wallpaper glue.

It will alter digestive transit (weaning always does) but may or may not improve sleep.

As will all approaches to weaning, start with one meal a day (I suggest middle of day, so if you get a poo including dent following it's also during the day) and then add more meals gradually. Plus add more foodstuffs singly. Give food before drink, but make sure that over the day DC is having enough milk (if using formula) to cover nutritional requirements during the erratic days of early weaning. If BF, just check that your best-guess consumption was pretty much as just before weaning.

I wouid suggest reading up on weaning a little more before you start baby rice only is a terrifically boring, diet.

DS actually stopped sleeping through once we started weaning! So be warned it doesn't fix sleep issues

Same here @TwittleBee. My mother was obsessed with me giving dd rusk to “help her sleep” and I was a bit smug when weaning actually caused a sleep regression. Obviously vvv tired, but glad I had proved my point!

How old? I wouldn’t bother with rice at all personally. Just give more milk, then at 6 months give them a banana. And start from there. If they’re waking in the night hungry, give a bottle, or give the night time bottle later before bed, so see them through

You mix it with a bit of their normal milk and give just 2-3 spoonfuls before feeds on the first couple of days, if they tolerate it well (the texture and spoon) start introducing different vegetables (avoid sweet fruits) waiting a couple of days between each new introduction. Commercial foods are an alternative but mine preferred mashed sweet potatoes, spinach, peas etc that I used a hand blender on or mashed with a fork. Banana is a good option if you are out as it comes in it's own wrapper!

How old is your DD?

Also, baby rise is not very nice at all, there are lots of lovely things to try as a first food.

Also, food is for fun until one.

Another one who missed baby rice altogether.

The most filling thing for a baby is milk.

I thought giving baby rice to make babies sleep longer was an urban myth. Does your area offer any weaning seminars? I went to one and found it really useful

Baby rise has low levels of in organic arsenic (like all rice) so I didn't give it to my son.

I just mushed up food with a fork and also used baby musli

Thanks everyone she's not 6 months yet so I think after reading your comments I'll give the baby rice a miss and just up her bottles. Thank you again xx