Oatmeal: How Your Baby Can Safely Self-Feed Oatmeal

Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - A podcast by Katie Ferraro

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#47: Can babies eat regular oatmeal? You bet. As long as it does not have any added sugar, there are a number of ways you can safely feed baby oatmeal: quick-cooking, old-fashioned rolled oats or steel-cut. You can also feed your baby baby oatmeal if you want to...but you don’t have to. In this episode we’re diving deep into a number of ways you can safely feed your baby oatmeal. With a discussion on the ratio of liquid:oats to use plus the iron content comparison of quick-cooking, old-fashioned rolled oats and steel-cut, you’ll have everything you need to incorporate oatmeal safely into your self-feeding baby’s diet. Listen to this episode to learn: Why oatmeal is a great first food for baby and how you can safely get your baby to self-feed steel-cut, quick-cooking or old-fashioned rolled oats How the iron content of different types of oatmeal varies - but also why you don’t necessarily need to buy “single-ingredient” baby oatmeal for your baby How to promote self-feeding even when your baby is starting out with puree textures like oatmeal and you want to preserve the self-feeding principles of baby-led weaning Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/47 Links from this episode: Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other episodes related to this topic: Episode 02 covered “5 THINGS YOUR BABY SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO BEFORE STARTING SOLID FOODS” and was mentioned in this episode Episode 05 covered “HOW TO DO PUREES FOR A FEW DAYS WHEN STARTING SOLID FOODS”  and was mentioned in this episode Episode 13 covered “MILK PROTEIN: HOW TO INTRODUCE THIS POTENTIALLY ALLERGENIC FOOD TO YOUR BABY” and was mentioned in this episode Episode 45 covered “HOW TO BALANCE YOUR BABY’S PLATE” and was mentioned in this episode Check out Jenna Helwig @realbabyfood book The Multi-Cooker Baby Food Cookbook for some great overnight oats recipes you can make in your Instant Pot or other multi-cooker. 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 Not sure about which foods to offer your baby next? Get your copy of my original 100 FIRST FOODS list on my free online video workshop called BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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