if you've done cereal come in!

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Did you start with rice or oatmeal? I've heard oatmeal is less constipating. What time of day did you offer it? How many times a day? Did you offer it before breast/bottles or after? How much time in between? And finally how old was your baby? Tia.

Mack924

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Did you start with rice or oatmeal? I've heard oatmeal is less constipating. What time of day did you offer it? How many times a day? Did you offer it before breast/bottles or after? How much time in between? And finally how old was your baby? Tia.

We started with rice, because thats what my pedi reccomended, and I never thought of starting w/ oatmeal, actually.

We gave it to him in the evening around suppertime, 6:30pm because thats when we were home from work.

Now we give it to him twice a day, at 10:30am when he wakes from his morning nap and then at 6:30pm when he wakes from his afternoon/evening nap.

When we started, he was 3.5 months.

Hope this helps a little!

mandyp121

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Did you start with rice or oatmeal? I've heard oatmeal is less constipating. What time of day did you offer it? How many times a day? Did you offer it before breast/bottles or after? How much time in between? And finally how old was your baby? Tia.

 

We just started giving him cereal this week. We are using rice. 

We give it to him once a day, in the evening about 1/2-hour after a bottle.

We started the cereal this past Monday and he turned 4 months on Tuesday.

CariannelovesTim

We started giving him rice cereal which he didn't care for. He perfers the oatmeal and mixed better. He was  3 1/2 months old when we started ceral per pedi recommendations. We started once per day in the am then gradually increased to two times a day.

arob2009

Did you start with rice or oatmeal?- rice, per the ped's recommendation

I've heard oatmeal is less constipating.We've been paying attention to his bowels & it's fine.

 

What time of day did you offer it?1st day in the AM (per ped's recommendation--they said to see how it treats his tummy & then we can increase), 2nd day AM & PM.  Now, it's our 3rd day and we are going to just do PM.

 

How many times a day?See above.

 

Did you offer it before breast/bottles or after?before breast.  about 1.5 oz mixed with cereal in the bottle then bf.

 

How much time in between?See above

 

And finally how old was your baby? 3 months, 2 weeks.  I got the OK from the ped. first---my son already weighed 20lbs at 3 months and was eating 5-6 oz every 2 hours thoughout the day and would go at max 4 hours at night.  I called and asked for the ped's opinion and they said given his size we could try.  Everything is going well so far (only on day 3)--BUT, the reason I am only doing PM tonight is because yesterday he slept for 4 hours in the middle of the day (which is odd)and shorted himself one bottle, then he didn't sleep well at night.  I was concerned about getting enough nutrients so I am going to try it this way for a few days.

GL!

Mrs.DeliaMarieP

We did rice in the afternoon for 3 days, it was constipating, so we stopped for 4 or 5 days then started oatmeal, it was not binding at all (his poops did slow down, but it didn't affect his desire to eat BM, which the rice was doing).

gumiberg

oatmeal at lunch time at 5 months.  before that, we played with avocado at 4 months. 

we started when they became SO drooly and it was causing their face to break out in rashes.  practice swallowing helped them learn to swallow their drool and their faces cleared up.

they really enjoy the oatmeal but we'll be continuing just 1x a day because i dont want them to nurse less often...but we'll continue to play with our fruits and veggies.  we're going to revisit avocado, and try some peas.

Bride7-7-07

Did you start with rice or oatmeal? I've heard oatmeal is less constipating.

Rice - rice is more binding but I didn't start oatmeal until DD was 6 months old.  When I first started it, we switched back between rice/oatmeal every other day.  Now, she gets rice in the morning and oatmeal at night.

What time of day did you offer it? How many times a day?

I started in the morning time with 1 TBSP.  then increased after a few weeks to 1 TBSP in the morning and 1 TBSP. at night.

 Did you offer it before breast/bottles or after?

I offered it before I BF/Bottle fed her (breastmilk)

 How much time in between? And finally how old was your baby?

4 months old