Can my 6mo have normal porridge oats?

[Indadhanu]

Was talking to my mum and she said that my bro (now 8) used to eat finely ground normal porridge oats instead of rice cereal at 6 months. Would it be ok to give Jazz normal porridge oats? Its not the lumps or anything I'm worried about, but just the oats. Are oats ok?

TIA

[Barb Glare]

By the time babies are 6mnths they are sufficiently mature that they can eat just about anything. Pureed foods are completely unnecessary. Baby foods are obsolete - they can just eat any normal food you have in the house

[Indadhanu]

Oh beauty, I have quick oats so I don't even have to grind it up? YAY!

When are they allowed to start eating meat? I've heard so many different things I'm so confused!

[Doing my best]

Hi Leasha,

We started our DD on meat about 7 months. Our reason was that we wanted her to have veges and fruit first, and were introducing things one by one. I just cooked casserol style in water (without all the normal casserole flavours to start with), then minced in the food processor. I never pureed meat..

Oh - and we gave oats (porridge from 5&1/2) months mixed with formula, then when yoghurt introduced, replaced formula with yoghurt.

[~Kim~]

Darcy wouldn't eat the baby porridges/cereals...she loved oats - so that's what she had. That's what she still has. Some of the 'rules' say to steer clear of oats and wheat based cereals for the first 12 months, but I agree with Barb.

[thepixie]

sorry for crashing leasha but what about dairy? my DD is always trying to steal my yoghurt