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[wickedcherub]

Why is everything I read about starting babies on solids contradicting everything else I read about starting babies on solids???

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[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

Do you know whether Liam would get enough iron from my breastmilk especially since I take supplements?

I will google that now.

[sueg.livejournal.com]

He probably will, but I have also known breastfed babies who had low iron levels at a year. You don't really know if your baby will be one of those until they do the test at 12 months, which is a little late for making a decision about fortified cereal. (assuming the iron testing routine is similar in Oz).

On the bright side, iron in breastmilk is very bioavailable, more so than iron in fortified cereal.

One thing I loved about commercial baby cereal is that I could give Finn skinny slices of slippery foods like avocado and banana by tossing them in baby rice cereal first, so they wouldn't slip out of his hands. I didn't actually use a ton of it otherwise, but I used a little.