starting cereal - I have ?s

MNheidi

We want to get the boys used to cereal so I try rice cereal once a day.  Do you have a suggestion as to which feeding we should add this to?  Also, do you scale back a bit on formula/bm and then feed?

And, I read somewhere I should use seperate spoons for the boys.  Great in theory but a real PITA in reality.  Do you do this?

lutzcowgirlie

I always made it a habit to start new things in the morning. They are well rested and happy, plus if there is ever something they react to it will happen while they are awake - not during the night when I wouldn't know it.

 

I didn't scale back on the other in the beginning, since it is just for practice. Mine have just naturally adjusted their patterns depending on how much they choose to eat at each feeding. I just follow their lead, but still offer the same amount.

 

As far as the separate spoons, someone else was asking about this the other day. I think everyone agreed that they share germs in so many ways during the average day that trying to do two spoons is just a real pain for you with no benefit. Mine will get their own spoons when they are starting to self-feed. While I am feeding, they share. Heck, I still share spoons with my sister if we want to taste something the other is eating. I just don't think it's a big deal.

hollyoid7

We share the same spoon. Unless DH and I are both feeding the boys together. I did cereal at there last feeding of the day for a week. and then twice a day for a week (before bottle in AM and at their last bottle at night---we still do this)...They will let you know if they need less formula/BM..Wesley (my smaller one) eats the same amount of formula..But TImmie we have brought him down an ounce since we started cereal. After a week of twice a day cereal we started veggies (but they were 6 months..I am not sure when you want to start that)..

lovethe1story

Hi

I started with cereal after their morning feed as well.  I 'heard' that if you introduce food in the am you have all day to see if they get a rash or have a bad reaction to it, opposed to night time where they would go to sleep and you couldn't monitor their reaction.  That said, I know a ton of people who intro food at night (dinner) and have been fine;)

We use the same spoon.

My kids had rice cereal and then oatmeal for the first two weeks of solids and were so not into it, when we gave them veggies and fruit they were much more interested!

Our intro schedule was breakfast, dinner and then lunch.  So now they have solids 3xs a day (at 9 months).

Have fun and take pictures.  Their faces are too cute with that first bite!

HTH

Trina

 

CarissaA

We started in the morning just incase there was a reaction so I could call the pedi.