If you do BLW do you give baby rice as well?

[Sonilaa]

dd is now nearly 5 months old and I am starting to think about weaning.
with ds we started with baby rice at 6 months, then jars and homemade baby food/purees. had the common issue of him not wanting bits, and his reflux meant that he sometimes threw up, because he couldn*t feel he was full...
I am now thinking of starting with baby rice again, but also offering finger foods a the same time. my paed said baby rice is essential because of the added iron...

Baby rice appears very similar to wallpaper paste. Neither of mine liked it - I personally wouldn't use it for weaning, but I don't think using it would do any harm. Rather against BLW though I would think.

No we don't. DS2 gets plenty of iron from the proper food he eats rather than wallpaper paste baby rice. He has loads of veg, chunks of beef from bolognese sauce, with pasta, chunks of chicken, all sorts, so he's getting iron and everything else he needs.

He likes normal rice though, we put it on a spoon and he feeds himself. Chicken curry is his favourite. He was 6 months last week.

do you cook the rice a bit softer then?
we usually like it "al dente", but that might be too difficult at the start?

We overcook everything a bit to start with, so it's easy to get hold of - we just mixx us (say) curry or chilli with the rice and ds grabs it with his hands. It's very messy.

He's 7 1/2 months and I can't remember when we last overcooked rice for him! Pasta I still overcook a bit, but I do do separate pasta for him - spirali- as penne is just too tricky for him to hold easily.

Baby rice can't be that essential, seeing as lots of countries don't use it for weaning at all.

We don't do it al dente but not overcooked either. He's fine with it. He can grab it with his hands, but finds it easier to actually eat some with a loaded spoon offered to him. His movements are still quite jerky because he's only just 6 months so to avoid whole bowlfuls being knocked on the floor we tend to put one or two things in front of him to pick up or hold things out for him to take from us.

fbb - ds has really just cracked the shovelling in with hands in the past few weeks. I still don't put a bowl in front on him - his movements are a lot less jerky, but his desire to chuck stuff a lot stronger!

Baby rice is not a natural food stuff, so I can't see why a doctor would think it essential.

It's rice they just ground up I think . Fortified with vitamins but then you don't need it and can get iron other ways.

DS hated it and rejected food that had it stirred in. In the end after 2 weeks I started BLW instead and intend to do the same for DD (who will be 6 months soon).