Question about Rice cereal when BF

TheMRS0127

I have been using BM to mix the rice cereal for DS, but I am getting a little discouraged that the 5oz I pump every day is being used for that instead for building up a freezer stash for when we have to leave him.(We have a wedding Labor Day weekend and will be gone all day and night.) DS has 2Tbsp of cereal with about 2.5oz of BM, are there any suggestions rather then pump more - because I have tried and get maybe 0.5oz in total after my first pump of that day (5oz -1side)

FriendlyFanny

Honestly, I'd just keep putting the milk in the freezer and wait until after Labor Day to worry about cereal. He won't suffer for not having cereal for a couple weeks since BM is all he nutritionally needs at this point.

meganet22

Either use formula or water to mix the cereal. My dd would never take food that had bm mixed in with it so I always used water.  You could also make the cereal thicker and use less bm with it when mixing.

asnowracer

Every baby is different, but we're not doing cereal yet. (we did 3 times out of desperation for sleep, but it didn't make a difference.) Lots of pedis give the go ahead at 4 months, but like the PP said, it's not even necessary at that point. If you're comfortable with it you could hold off and work on your stash.

https://www.kellymom.com/nutrition/solids/delay-solids.html 

TheMRS0127

my ds lost 2oz from 2months-4months so the pedi told us to start cereal and come back in 2weeks to check on his weight gain

fame_ame

My son didn't eat (or need) anything other than bm until he was closer to 11 months old. We gave him tastes of other foods, but he never really ate a ton. I'd skip the cereal for now.

makclair

I always mixed it with water, DS did not like the cereal mixed with bm. heck, he didn't really like it at all, and we did cereal for maybe a week total before we started mixing it with fruit. 

 

FriendlyFanny

If lack of weight gain is a problem, I definitely wouldn't mix cereal with water. Cereal doesn't have all that many calories so to mix it with water isn't going to give the benefit your pedi wants. I would either mix it with formula or mix with BM and then supplement with formula while you're away from LO for the wedding.