Baby Rice

When did everyone start giving their babies baby rice?

Caden is quite a hungry baby, he is on Heinz Nuture for hungry babys, but Im feeling a little uneasy about it, just after the uproar about heinz Nuture formula etc, plus Caden suffers from colic at night a lot of the time.

A friend of mines doctor told her to take her son off the heinz for hungry babys as he was getting wind and to put him on the normal one(but I wont put him on the normal one unless they change it back to how it was) and give him baby rice at night, im thinking about trying this with Caden.
But Im nervous about changing his formula again he seems fine on the heinz nuture for hungry babies apart from the colic at night and he is doing quite runny poos and they seemed a bit mucousy at one point today, not and formed as they used to be.

Im confused I think, all this stuff about formula stresses me out a bit!! Especially with all the stuff in the news about formula I hate not knowing whats going into caden.

Also what formulas do you guys feel are the best?

Sorry for the novel!

TIA

yeah thats what I was thinking stacey, thats why i thought I see what everyone thought first...I dont want to upset his tummy by giving him baby rice to young.
maybe i could try the S26 and just up his feeds to start with, then when he is 4 months old, try and introduce baby rice.

Is S26 quite different than karicare? Cos the karicare constipated caden.

We started baby rice at 5-6 months. Eva loves it! I also think Caden is abit young to be able to digest it. I can't offer and advice on formula sorry, as we only introduced it at 7 months and use S26 lactose free. I've been happy with that brand though.

I'd say up the formula, or maybe try a different one before you offer baby rice.

Before about 6 months the lining of the gut is permeable which means that proteins which are ingested are absorbed into the blood stream which is why they recommend starting solids around 6 mths.

That said, baby rice is sometimes recommended as a feed thickener for refluxers from very early on, and is a fairly 'neutral' food so is less likely to cause allergies than other first foods so if he really isn't coping with just formula then baby rice is probably the best option.

Keziah was 4 months when she started solids, but she wouldn't have a bar of any of the Farex range... still doesn't now. She too was a hungry baby was boobie fed til 6 months and then we changed to S26 Gold once we weaned her...(or should I say she weaned herself)

Yeah I am going to hold off jaycee.
Caden seems to like the heinz formula so I am going to try him on the Gold Starter, its the same as the blue lid one(the old stuff0 but has bifidus in it.

Jackson is on s26, hes never had constipation, nor has he suffered any wind.
Jackson started on solids around 4 months, only because my karitane nurse recommended it as he was a "big boy" Good luck!

yeah thats a goos idea..

I did think about leaving him on the nuture for hungry babies, but they are actually going to be changinga ll their formulas over to the aussie stuff, so the formula will be different.
I want to keep him on one that isnt going to change.

Hi Sheena.  I would hold off on the baby rice until well over 4 months, as Rice is a hard substance to digest.  If you were going to start Caden on solids sometime soon, I would probably just start with apple or pears, or maybe pumpkin.  It's a lot more natural for him, and easier on his tummy.

 

Hope he goes ok on the new formula!  And eek!!  I can't believe he's almost ready for solids!  Wasn't he just born?  That's gone soo fast!