Did I Do Something Wrong - Rice Cereal?

irisheyez123

Today was DS first day eating rice cereal but I am wondering if I prepared it incorrectly. The box said 1 tbsp of rice cereal to 4 tbsp of milk. Mixing it like this resulted in a consistency very similar to breast milk. In a lot of the pics I see people here post of their LOs first solid meal looks much thicker. I even tried to thicken it up by adding a bit more rice cereal but it was still very thin. Did I do something wrong?

DS took to being spoon fed very well he just got tired of getting so little food at once since he was hungry. I am thinking of trying oatmeal instead tomorrow. IDK. What was your experience?

Kara5109

That is normal. He won't be too interested in it at first.

SuperThat1006

Breast milk has an enzyme in it that breaks down rice cereal. Same thing happened to me.

Do single-grain oatmeal instead

hewinked

When I first made it for DD, it was very runny also.  I think it was easier for her that way to get used to food, but what a mess.    I just gradually thickened it up, stopped measuring out the milk, and prepared it to the consistency that was right for her.  Good luck!

irisheyez123

ChrissieW3:

Breast milk has an enzyme in it that breaks down rice cereal. Same thing happened to me.

Do single-grain oatmeal instead

Ohhh. I had no idea about that. I was wondering why no matter how much rice cereal I added it never thickened. Oatmeal it is! Thank you.

Nhev

It was really thin for us too. Once she got used to the spoon, we thickened it up.

SuperThat1006

irisheyez123:

ChrissieW3:

Breast milk has an enzyme in it that breaks down rice cereal. Same thing happened to me.

Do single-grain oatmeal instead

Ohhh. I had no idea about that. I was wondering why no matter how much rice cereal I added it never thickened. Oatmeal it is! Thank you.

Yeah a friend of mine volunteered that info to me the next day after seeing video on FB.

I was thankful!

LadyDelilah

DD didnt care for rice ceral at all it was totally different when we did carrots and bananas.

XCrissCrossX

I wouldn't start oatmeal tomorrow, what if LO has a reaction? You won't know which food it is to. I'd wait at least a couple days.

xoashleigh4ox

we do oatmeal.. but i make it thicker kinda like pudding constancy.. its much easier to feed it to him

LordValuemart

First day we did cereal DS didn't like it, I made it runny as per instructions, on a hunch the next day I did it a bit thicker and he abso-freaking-lutely loves it!