Been looking for articles about giving a baby rice and pasta. As everyhting is geared towards the guidelines of not weaning til 6 months it has been tough to find anything. Have included links to two feeding guides.
http://www.verybestbaby.com/content/art ... 1575717469
http://www.bchealthguide.org/healthfiles/hfile69c.stm
I cant see that rice would be a prob for a 4 month old as it is gluton free, as long as it is mushed. Here is a list of gluton free foods, hope it helps (it is for adults so please ignore the beer and the vitamin pills lol) x
What you can eat on a gluten-free diet:
All fresh fruit and vegetables, dried peas and beans.
All fresh meat and fish, milk, plain yogurt, eggs, butter, cheese.
Potato and rice.
Olive oil, corn oil, lard
Rice, easy cook rice, brown rice, ground rice, rice flour, pure rice noodles, pure rice pasta, wild rice.
Maize, maize flour, cornflour(maize).
Sorghum flour, teff flour, quinoa, buckwheat.
Sweet chestnut puree and flour.
Cream of tartar, bicarbonate of soda.
All herbs, all fresh spices.
Sago and tapioca. Agar, arrow root.
Black List: What you must not eat
DO NOT EAT wheat flour, wholemeal flour, oatmeal, rye flour, durum, strong flour, granary flour, semolina, barley flour, self raising
flour, spelt flour, bulgar, triticale, couscous., or any product that may contain them.
DO NOT EAT any pastas such as spaghetti, macaroni, lasagne.
DO NOT EAT any bread, cakes, biscuits, sweets, rusks, pastry, pies, breakfast cereals wheat germ or vitamin E pills. (except in
the safe list)
DO NOT DRINK beer, stout, lager or cloudy lemonade.
Many manufactured foods contain starch from wheat! DO NOT EAT products that contain starch, food starch, edible starch or
modified starch such as sausages, sauce mixes, curry mixes, packet and tinned soups, dried meals, gravy mixes, stock cubes,
baking powder mixes, soy sauce. (except in the safe list)
BEWARE of any products that may use starch as a filler such as mustard powder and white pepper. Some products contain
unspecified sweeteners and stabilisers. These may be chemically modified wheat flour.
Wheat flour can get in to products where you don't expect it. Some manufactured potato chips contain wheat flour!
Warning - this list is not comprehensive - this is not medical advice.
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