When u started cereal

NJLH

Does anyone remember what their next step was? I'm doing one serving of cereal with a bottle in the evening. I'm not sure whether to start a 2nd serving during the day or add a veggie 1st. Also, I still do bottles every 3 hrs since the babies are little, but I'm wondering if I should stretch longer when I give the food. Thanks for your help!

MandieSueM

We did cereal for about a month as the kids got used to taking solids, and we started at 5 months b/c they were drinking between 32 and 38 oz of formula a day and my pedi said to pull them back to about 30 oz but add cereal, buecause they just needed the calories.

I have a lot of food allergies in my family (my 1 bro is allergic to eggs, the other to berries, fruit, wheat, soy, fish, nuts, legumes, and I am allergic to milk and soy, and whatever hops or whatever is in beer (lol!).  Thankfully none of them are life-threatening, but since there are so many I was very careful about introducing new foods to all my kids.

We started with bananas, then went to turkey, then prunes (for obvious reasons - LOL!, then applesauce, carrotts, sweet potatoes.  Super Baby food provides a list in their book of the least and most allergic foods, so we just started with all the least allergic foods and after that moved on to the more allergic foods, keeping 4-5 days in between intros, and saving the foods that are known allergens in my family until they were closer to 1.  Other than foods that are more likely to cause allergic reactions, there is no reason to hold off on introducing one food over another.  And so far, so good; no allergies in my kiddies that we know of!!

Here's the list, if you would like it.  Or you can just buy the book, LOL!  GL!  HTH!

Low rish allergy foods are:
apples
apricots
asparagus
bananas
beets
carrots
lettuce
oats
peaches
pears
plums/prunes
rice
squash
sweet potatoes
tapioca

High risk allergy foods are:
beans and other legumes (this includes green beans and peas)
berries (of any variety, esp. strawberries)
buckwheat
cabbage
cinnamon (be careful this is mixed into a lot of jarred fruits)
citrus fruits and juices
corn
dairy products
egg whites
melon
nuts
onion
papaya
peas
pork
rye
semolina
shellfish
soy
tomatoes
wheat
yeast

MandieSueM

Sorry, I forgot to mention that by 5 months my trio were already at a 4 hour formula feeding schedule, so we just started solids as they needed them to quell their hunger, so I can't comment on whether or not you should start stretching them now (I probably would, but that's IMO; I'm sure whatever you're comfortable with and keeps your babies happy would work).  And my kids weren't fond of straight up cereal so I pretty much started subbing in fruits and veggies and meats instead of even feeding them cereal, and I used the cereal more to bump up calories in foods like yogurt and make them thicker.