We tried it for the first time tonight. LO was not impressed. I had it pretty runny and I'm wondering if that was the case. I know a person is supposed to slowly add thickness. When you offered cereal, for those you have, did you have it a mostly a liquid or did it have some thickness to it right away?
Our guy didn't really swallow it much. He would open his mouth, and then grimace when I put the cereal in his mouth. Maybe he's not ready? Or do we try it again?
Re: Rice Cereal
we use Earth's Best rice cereal and follow the directions on the box. consistency is a little runny, but def not mostly liquid. we've been doing rice cereal for two weeks now. of course he didn't like it at first, even now most of it ends up on his face or on the bib! what i do is feed him a bottle for a few minutes, then give him a little rice cereal from a spoon. alternate from bottle to spoon. also, i found that I had to switch from the babybjorn spoon (too wide) to the OXO feeding spoon (narrower), much better.
up to you if you want to keep trying or wait. we decided to keep trying because DS was really hungry, eating way more ounces of milk, so he was ready for solids.
We had a similar experience to you. After a few days and making the cereal thicker each day, we had much better luck. DD didn't really seem to understand what to do when it was so thin. I do 2 TBS to 1/2 - 3/4 oz breastmilk.
Also, we did one ounce of breast milk to one tablespoon of cereal to start, and then slowly added more cereal to increase consistency.