whole grain/wheat bread for kids

We gave DS wheatmeal from the time he started eating toast, now he just eats whatever we have in the cupboard: molenburg, soy and linseed - doesn't seem to have problems with it.

at 7 m.o. will he choke on the linseeds though?

I thought they were suppose to have white until around 2 years cos their digestive systems can't handle other bread... we gave DD white until about 18months and now little madam only likes my Burgen or Vogels bread...

I give Mika my Ploughman's rye. It has no "bits" in it, but is one of the darker types of bread. I still consider wheatmeal white.
The whole whit bread thing seems to be a New Zealand thing. I northern Europe lots of people seem to give their babies darker bread.
And I agree with Bizzy, she seems to gum it more than she actually eats it.
She LOVES rice wafers though and eats lots of those.

I think (from memory) the reason that they recommend white/wheatmeal is that the bread with bits passes thought babies and toddlers too fast and so there is not enough absorption time so the nutrients do not have time to be properly digested and absorbed by the body.

White bread is not very good for anyone it is totally void of any real nutrition, I would go with the dark and non seed variety. Why do babies need bread anyway? I haven't eaten bread for years, so we don't even have bread in the house (DH has lost interest in it too)




Edited by skp