Food/solids ?

ocean71506

Emma has been eating a ton over the last week. She is eating around 34-36 oz a day.  The last couple nights she has even started getting up again for food at night.  Is this a sign she might be ready for cereal? We have her 4 month appt. next week and will ask the pedi.  Where do you go for info on feeding solids to your LO?  I feel so clueless about it.

pertilocka

Im not sure if those are signs or not, but at our 4 month well visit our doc had us start cereal.  morgan is doing great eating that.  I think they base it on whether your lo has doubled their birth weight.  morgan had more than doubled her birth weight.  good luck with what ever you decide.

611bride05

I am not sure if that is a sign or just a sleep regression- but usually pedis recommend you start solids anywhere from 4-6 months, so you are right in there.  You could give cereal a shot and see how your LO does.  We waited until 6 months but some babies are ready earlier.

Ris9701

Jax has his appt this Thursday and I plan on asking if I can start cereal. I even put his highchair together today and let him sit/play in it! He hasn't doubled his birth weight yet but that would mean he needs to be over 20 pounds!!! I think he will be right around 17lbs on Thursday.

sdkrlm

don't mistake the 4 month wakeful/growth spurt for readiness for solids.  A lot of babies go through a wakeful period and they will eat more when they are growing.  

A lot of Pedis are still in the "old school" thought about solids and give the go ahead at 4 months old, but the WHO and the AAP now recommend that people wait until babies are 6 months old to start solids.   And at that time, cereal really isn't needed as a first food.  Basically rice cereal has very little nutrients/calories in it and it's benefit is not really to 'fill them up' but to give added vitamins (fortified) and to let them practice with something new - textures, taste, etc.