Help a nervous mom!

buddhabelly

Okay, this isn't my first rodeo, lol, I have a two-year-old.  But with our 4-month-old daughter, I'm always a little more nervous about things because she has Down syndrome.  Anyway, she's been walking up at 4:30 for the past week just starving.  (Drinking 8-10 oz. when she normally drinks 6.)  I've been wanting to start her on cereal but was nervous if her tummy could handle it.  I figured since she's waking up so hungry, she needs a little something more. 

So I gave her some cereal yesterday morning and she loved it.  After her breakfast, she took a 2 1/2 hour nap!  She did fine the rest of the day, but I was nervous about giving her cereal at dinner in case it gave her a tummy ache through the night.  Well, she woke up at 4:00 this morning and ate 10 oz.  So my question is, should I be giving her more cereal throughout the day?  At dinnertime?  Thank you!

Murdock12

I'd check with your pedi but I'll tell you for us, ours had us start rice cereal after her 4 mo visit.  She doubled her birth weight and was starting to wake up more and more (and chugging a bottle each time) so the doctors thought she needed more.  She's done soooo much better since starting cereal.  I know some people think it doesn't make a difference but for us it has. 

If LO is sleeping it doesn't sound like it's bothering her.