Eating Rice or Oatmeal Cereal

She may need to be tested for oaks! Have her tested. Don't give her anything with oaks until you have her tested. Insist that this test is done on her.

Are you making it tooo thick? First cereals should be rather thin and milky looking. You can gradually thicken as they get older. Right now it should not be any thicker that baby food 1st foods. Yes most of it will probably run out of her mouth the first few times, but she will catch on. Just think, she has been drinking only liquids up till now and has to learn how to swallow stuff now. Start off thin and work up. The Gerber box of rice cereal has a recipe for making first servings on the side of the box. Check it out.

wow Deja Vu. This exact thing happened to my daughter when we started solids. almost exactly TWO hours after eating rice or oatmeal cereal, she would vomit forcefully until every last bit in her stomach was gone and she was weak and pale and she would fall sound asleep. We even took her to the ER a couple times because she became so weak. After MANY dr appointments with different dr's, we were told that she had a "grain intolerance", possibly FPIES. We didn't feed her any grains for one year. We fed her veggies, and fruit, as she got older, beans and meat and dairy, potatoes and sweet potatoes for her starches. I also breastfed until she was 16 months old so I knew she was getting enough nutrition. If she did get ahold of something or we accidentally fed her something, sure enough, two hours later... same old same old. After about a year, we reintroduced her to grains and she tolerated them! Now she is almost 4 and she eats anything and everything, but she would still choose fruit and veggies over bread items. YEAH!

The docs just don't get it, I got the shuffle around a lot. I had one nurse INSIST that it is not possible to be allergic to rice. I told her 'really? great, then the next time my baby is vomiting and listless 2 hours after she eats rice, I'll just tell her to knock it off because she must be faking it'

I posted about this intolerance when we first started experiencing the symptons, and the funny thing is, that in the last 2 years I have gotten 4 or 5 moms private message me about that post. They found it by searching and feel their child had the same issues. I can give you their names on here if you want to contact them.

Good luck to you!

I would suggest just skipping the cereal all together. There are many other options for first foods that you may find your DD (and her system) likes better. You could try applesauce (make sure you get a natural, unsweetened kind or you'll be loading her up on high fructose corn syrup), mash up some banana, cook and puree some squash or mash up some avocado. Depending on your LO you may even be able to just cut things up into little bits and let her feed herself skipping the puree stage all together (my son HATES purees and would much prefer some texture in his food and loves the ability to feed himself). Here is a great link to help get you started. http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/

We started feeding our little ones at 3 months (when the first stage foods begins.) We gave our children infant cereal mixed thinly with breastmilk and pears stage one. Loved it. Our children ate them all: mixed, rice and oatmeal with no problem. Just make certain it is very thin by the instructions, add a little stage one baby fruit for taste, only give a few spoons at a time until they get use to it; and afterwards make sure your child is sitting up for at least 30 minutes or vomitting will always occur.
Or another alternate is to add it to the drinking milk. We would add only a tsp to the night-time bottle shake and serve. I hope it works out for your little one.

Are you buying the oatmeal from the adult cereals section or the baby food section? The cereal should actually be nearly thin enough to drink. When you follow the directions on the box is it that thin?

Are you using the instant oatmeal from the adult section? Are you mixing it with warm formula or breast milk? When you say it didn't seem to dissolve that well, it sounds like you're trying to make it with cold or room temperature water and possibly using the adult instant oatmeal. I have difficulty making the instant oatmeal.

Also, if you're using the adult instant oatmeal, it has other ingredients including sugar which is not good for babies.

Same with rice cereal. Was it from the baby food section and was it very thin in consistency without lumps?

Are you sure that she's burped before you lay her down? My grandkids, as babies, frequently vomited if they hadn't burped. They also had GERD, gastroesophogel reflex disorder. They spit up their milk much of the time unless we kept them upright for 30 minutes or so before laying them down.

It's also possible that her digestive system is not mature enough to handle the cereal. Does she eat other baby foods OK?

Hi A.:

I have a 4 year old and a 1 year old and they way I gave them rice cereal was in their bottle.....I would take the measuring cup that I got with the formula and use that to put the amount of rice and just mix it with their formula or milk....it seemed to work. I did have problems when I gave them oatmeal so I just stuck with the rice. I hope everything works out for you and your daughter!

M.

Six months is usually when parents start adding rice cereal but Oatmeal is a bit more dense and I think it would be too hard for her little system to digest. The rice cereal should be very soupy, not thick at all. It is just to get her used to the texture and to prepare her for the following foods she'll eventually be eating. She may just not be ready physically.

Adding table foods is really a choice, formula or breast milk is 100% nutrition needed by babies. If she doesn't take to this then just wait another month and see how she does.

You may be dealing with a texture sensitivity (lumpy and sticky versus smooth, wet milk). Or there may be some kind of grain intolerance/allergy. I would talk to your pedi again and let him/her know that oatmeal wasn't any better. In the meantime, don't give the baby any more rice and oatmeal (obviously lol).

Because rice and oatmeal is so much heavier than formula, sometimes if you don't get all the burps out of them after they eat it, when you lay them down that air pocket will move down under the stomach contents and make them throw it back up. Make sure to burp her extra well and keep her sitting up for awhile after she eats.

I am writing this without seeing other answers so forgive me if its repetitive. Vomit is a strong word....is it like projectile or just spit up? Is it a large amount or a little? She could just be having a hard time digesting it or maybe she's getting too much and overflowing a bit....definitley tell your pedi...has she eaten other solids without trouble? It seems like she might just not quite be ready for solids, every baby develops at a different rate. I mainly feed my six month old blended sweet potato,apple,pears (no peels),banana and mango but I also feed her rice cereal mixed with water. She likes it pretty thick. I only feed her a couple ounces of solids a day and mostly breastfeed and a bottle of formula before naps or bed. You don't need the cereal really there's not much in it she can't get elsewhere. Let your pedi know and see what they say...it could very well be an allergy or an intolerance, I have an oat intolerance myself.if you don't think your Dr. is taking you seriously enough, try a new pediatrician....I tried a few before I settled on one I liked. Good luck to you and your little one...

My younger son (now 7 mos) didn't take well to the rice cereal at all at 4 mos. He just didn't like the taste of it.
It seems different brands have different textures. We used Gerber with my first son & he did great, but we tried Beechnut for #2 and it didn't dissolve at all. We ended up giving #2 natural applesauce as his first food, then moved on to sweet potatoes, peas, etc in stage one from there. He also took really well to the oatmeal and had no problems, especially if it's mixed with applesauce & a bit of cinnamon.
The baby is already up to stage 3 foods and is now eating some table foods if they're finely chopped (love my food processor!). My older son didn't start on table foods until closer to 10 months, though we didn't start him on solids until 6mos per doc's orders. It's amazing how very different each child can be. It may be that your little one just isn't quite ready yet. My first took a long time to get used to eating the cereal or stage 1 fruits (a month or more), but the second took to it like it was nothing.

What are you mixing the cereal with? I breastfed my girls and with one, I used formula to mix the cereal - we found out that was the problem. Once I started mixing with breastmilk, she was fine. HTH and good luck!