rice cereal=mucousy poop

[omelette]

Lovely title.
I just started my babe on rice cereal and it has resulted in mucousy poops. So my question is should I also cut rice out of my diet?
I've already cut dairy and gluten which got rid of his mucousy poops. We are just starting him on solids and with rice cereal his poops are back to being mucousy.
What can I eat if I do cut out rice and should I just continue on with some fruit and veggies for babe?

[balancedmama]

Originally Posted by omelette

Lovely title.
I just started my babe on rice cereal and it has resulted in mucousy poops. So my question is should I also cut rice out of my diet?
I've already cut dairy and gluten which got rid of his mucousy poops. We are just starting him on solids and with rice cereal his poops are back to being mucousy.
What can I eat if I do cut out rice and should I just continue on with some fruit and veggies for babe?

Well first of all, the question of whether or not to do rice cereal is a whole different post. I think you'll find a lot of people who feel that it's garbage. Personally I didn't give it to my kids.

If you're concerned about gluten, I'd also be concerned about the rice cereal...cross-contamination with gluten is pretty high in most of those boxed cereals (assuming that's what you're using). If you're really wanting to do some kind of grain, can you cook your own rice cereal and puree it yourself and see what happens? It could also be that his system just isn't ready to process grains.

[omelette]

I didn't do rice cereal with my first so not sure why I chose to start it with my 2nd. Obviously it was not a good choice. I'm going to go back to just bm for a few weeks and then start with something else.