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Feeding Baby – When Can I Stop Paying Attention to the 4 Day Wait Rule?

Aug 25, 2009 Allergies

When your baby is around 9-10 months of age, you will have introduced baby to many new foods. At this point, you will have a good idea about what foods may be allergenic or cause your little one digestive upsets. At this stage, paying less attention to the 4 day wait rule is common. Once you have introduced several new foods without a reaction, you can then begin to mix them together as you wish.

As you loosen up the 4 day wait rule, it is still important to pay attention to the new foods you offer your little one, especially those foods that do pose an allergy risk. Of course if your family has a history of food allergies and/or intolerances, you may want to continue to follow the 4 day wait rule until your baby is at least 12 months of age. As always, you should consult with your baby’s pediatrician.

Visit our page devoted to the 4 Day Wait Rule and also Baby Food and Allergies page to learn more

** Some parents choose to follow a “2 or 3 day wait rule” based on their family’s history of food allergies. A more conservative approach is to use the “4 day wait rule”.

Tags: allergy, food allergy

Grinding Rice for Homemade Baby Cereal

Aug 23, 2009 Cereals, Friendly Baby Food Advice, Uncategorized, appliances, grains

We received 2 emails during the week asking about grinding rice for homemade baby cereal. I thought I’d clean the coffee grinder and post some images in response. Below I am using Basmati rice because that is what’s for dinner and that’s what I have to use up before I can move onto the brown basmati. I highly recommend using brown rice for baby’s cereal – it’s just more nutritious!

My coffee grinder is a Braun coffee grinder. It is a blade grinder and not a burr grinder. The coffee grinder is simple and cost about $14.95; it’s very old and did the grinding of rice for my (now 7 3/4 years old) twins when they were babies.

You can use old hard bread to clean your coffee grinder and rid it of coffee. The images below will show bits of coffee dust because I did a quick clean as we only use the grinder for coffee now.

First up, the coffee grinder

The grinder with 1/4 cup of whole Basmati rice (I ran out of brown rice!)

Rice after 8 seconds of grinding

Rice after 10 more seconds of grinding

Rice after another 10 seconds of grinding, now in a bowl

Rice in a bowl – part 2 Total grind time: about 30 seconds

Visit our Baby Cereal Recipes page to get recipes and our Homemade Baby Cereal FAQs page to learn about homemade baby cereals.

This grinder really can turn rice into a nice powdery type consistency that is perfect for making homemade baby cereals. It will do barley, steel cut oats, kamut, qunioa etc..

This is the coffee grinder – the link goes to amazon.com