I know you aren't suppose to start with food till at least 4 months and most pedi's prefer 6 months. Please check with your pedi before starting any food.
Also for cereal treat it like any other food and use a spoon. Do not put in the bottle.
Make it RAW whole cow's milk on peanuts, just to make it dangerous lol
So I'm not a total b*tch, check with your pediatrician first as 99% tell you no food until 4 months or sometimes 6 months. Then, food is still for learning not sustance. Organic is better than conventional when it comes to baby food in my opinion, always given with a spoon and never in the bottle.
If your baby is hungry, you may need to nurse longer/more frequently or supplement
Hoping people aren't giving their babies rice cereal just to make them sleep through the night. Babies will sleep through the night when they are ready, don't be selfish. Their little tummies don't need anything but breast milk or formula til around 6 months. My 3 month old still gets up twice a night. I'm tired, but that comes with the job and I'd never consider giving her anything to make her sleep unless my pedi told me she's ready, in which case she's already said 6 months or if she can sit up.
With my first child, 10 years ago I gave her cereal at 3 months only because that was the recommendation back then. She had no clue what she was doing and it didn't help her sleep, that's for sure! She didn't do that until a year old.
This little fella will start getting bites of food between 5-6 months or when he shows interest. I don't know that I will even bother with cereal this time.
Rice cereal had little to no nutrition. Oatmeal is better but I think bananas or squash or carrots are a better first food, but only when the baby is 5.5 to 6 months old. They cannot digest food before that and feeding them solids too early leads to Celiac and other digestion problems! Please please please never put cereal in a bottle.
I must be a bad parent, we put cereal into our son's bottle around 4 months. We only did this a few times a week for a few weeks before moving to cereal with a spoon. Then we jumped right into baby food since our Pedi said that if our son was interested in food, then it was time to introduce it.
We haven't discussed what we are going to do with DD this time.
I'm not sure why it was recommended to give a baby as young as 3 months old cows milk or peanut butter and then the combination other than for a joke. Thankfully, I'm not a first time mother, this is my third child and the older two are 19 and 17 so recommendations are quite a bit different than when I had my girls years ago. But why, even jokingly would anyone recommend that and why does it seem as though the thread took a negative turn and has sarcasm or not so nice comments. This thread is intended for mothers to help other mothers. Check your egos and attitudes to the side and be polite and to the point if you have a response. We sometimes need other mothers to bounce ideas and thoughts off of, don't be nasty or negative or if you must, do it somewhere else, not here. Sad to see frankly...
I'm not sure why it was recommended to give a baby as young as 3 months old cows milk or peanut butter and then the combination other than for a joke. Thankfully, I'm not a first time mother, this is my third child and the older two are 19 and 17 so recommendations are quite a bit different than when I had my girls years ago. But why, even jokingly would anyone recommend that and why does it seem as though the thread took a negative turn and has sarcasm or not so nice comments. This thread is intended for mothers to help other mothers. Check your egos and attitudes to the side and be polite and to the point if you have a response. We sometimes need other mothers to bounce ideas and thoughts off of, don't be nasty or negative or if you must, do it somewhere else, not here. Sad to see frankly...
Re: How to introduce cereal
Also for cereal treat it like any other food and use a spoon. Do not put in the bottle.
Make it RAW whole cow's milk on peanuts, just to make it dangerous lol
So I'm not a total b*tch, check with your pediatrician first as 99% tell you no food until 4 months or sometimes 6 months. Then, food is still for learning not sustance. Organic is better than conventional when it comes to baby food in my opinion, always given with a spoon and never in the bottle.
If your baby is hungry, you may need to nurse longer/more frequently or supplement
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This little fella will start getting bites of food between 5-6 months or when he shows interest. I don't know that I will even bother with cereal this time.
We haven't discussed what we are going to do with DD this time.