When (Time) do you give LO Cereal?

robynlesley · January 2010

My pedi said to give in the morning and the evening. But when DS wakes up he is SO hungry that he won't take cereal and just wants a bottle?FAST!

I end up giving him cereal at his 2nd feeding (between 10 - 11 am) and then in the evening around 7 pm.

Does anyone give cereal first thing in the AM?

nurseBrooke · January 2010

We are only doing cereal for dinner right now, but when we started 2 days ago, I nursed DS and after he nursed about 15 minutes later I offered the cereal. He ate all of it! Maybe if you want to do cereal in the morning offer him a bottle first and then offer cereal. HTH

heatherlane · January 2010

We only do dinner right now b/c I am not good at waking up before 6:30AM! Once he gets the hang of it we will do some oatmeal and banana for breakfast, and then rice and sweet potato for dinner. Most of the reccomendations I've read is to start it when the baby and the family are not rushed and can enjoy the time doing it, so we picked the first feeding home from daycare.

I've also read that you should only offer cereal after a normal feeding, so I would nurse or give him a bottle first, then do cereal.

But if the second feeding is when it feels comfortable for you, I'd stick with it.

robynlesley · January 2010

I was thinking that... offering him most of the bottle first, then cereal and then the remainder to "wash it down". I'll probably go that route once he starts fruits/veggies too.

BlairWaldorf · January 2010

err...mine is totally for a different reason & we're instructed to do oatmeal prior to bottle once in morning & evening, but this is what we do:

6am - first bottle

8am - first dose Prevacid

9am - oatmeal, then second bottle

blah blah blah, rest of the day, blah blah blah

4pm - bottle

6pm - 2nd dose Prevacid

7pm - oatmeal. then bath (to clean him off). then bedtime bottle.

robynlesley · January 2010

Thanks for your replies. I started Aaron with cereal a month ago and now he loves it. The evening meal is easier for me... I feel so rushed in the morning. Even with a baby, I'm still not really a morning person.

I'm going to try to give cereal earlier this weekend to see how it goes.

And DS primarily gets oatmeal since the rice cereal constipates him.

evhamm · January 2010

I nurse first feed around 7:30am, then give cereal and fruit after his nap, usually around 10:30am... works for us. (He gets a bottle around 1pm) Then around 5 I nurse again and at 6:30 I give cereal and a vegetable while we eat supper. Then one more bottle at 9pm and nurse during the night. So far this works for us.

monicalynn1979 · January 2010

DD wakes up for a bottle at 5:30 and then goes back down until 7:15 so we do cereal and fruit at 8:00 when she gets up and going. She isn't starving since she had that earlier bottle so it works out well for us.

We do veggies at 5pm and then bedtime bottle at 6:15.

BengalBelle · January 2010

We give a bottle at 7 a.m. (when he wakes up) and then cereal about 8/8:30 a.m. He gets veggies at 5:30/6 p.m. and then a bottle at 7 p.m. before bed.

shortyran · January 2010

No, he's way too hungry to do it first thing in the morning! I normally feed him about 1 1/2 hrs after I BF in the morning and 1 1/2 hrs after I BF around dinnertime and that seems to work well.

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