Weetbix for Breakfast..???

sorry no help to you. We give our son wheetbix and i hadnt heard there was anything wrong with it. Im eager to hear what people say. You could also ring plunket surely they would know

Hi Donna! Me and anakk both feed our 9 month olds Weetbix for breakfast (or, well, they feed it to themselves!). The reason you would be concerned about their kidneys is to do with sodium content (salt).

I'm paranoid about kidney things as our boy only has one functioning kidney, and I keep track of the sodium thing. Babies under 12 months should have less than 1g of salt (0.4g of sodium) per day (they can have 2g salt/0.8g sodium per day until 3 yrs, and then more yet after that) so you need to check the quantities in bread etc too (some bread can be quite high sodium).

There's 42 mg (0.042g) of sodium in a single weetbix biscuit so their daily allowance of salt would be met in about 9 biscuits. I doubt Dakota is having that much (if she's that hungry you've got bigger problems!)

The short answer really is, it depends on what else she's having, and when you're cooking for her, make sure you don't add any salt

Yeah, good point emz, I should have added that part. But yeah, it's pretty obvious from their nappies if they're getting too much fibre! (Plus that's more about the bowel than the kidneys)

Cornflakes and Rice Bubbles here in milk and i leave him to his own devices. Or i just give them to him on their own and he picks them up with his fingers.

I was worried so called the Sanitarium Nutritionists when Jake was about 11 months to check - they said any time from 10 months is OK, but they don't recommend them having weetbix earlier, due to the fibre content (I had heard sodium too, but apparently its the fibre thats the prob). I made sure it wasn't every day til he was over 12 months, just to be safe, as he ate ALOT of fruit etc so got lots of fibre. (and gave him no grainy toast until alot older).

Hope that helps.

Wow I had no idea I've given the girls weetbix every morning from 6 months old!

My girls have always had problems with constipation and my doctor advised me to give them only whole grain bread and they were 7 months old at the time.