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if your LO eats 3 solid meals a day

stellasmommystellasmommy
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how many of them are with cereal? our pedi said 2 of DD's 3 solid  meals should have cereal. we've been doing this for the past couple of weeks, and since we started DD has been constipated. we give her prune juice w/water, it helps for the next poop, but that's it. then it's back to being constipated. i think it's all the iron in the oatmeal that's doing it so i'm thinking of cutting back to just one meal a day w/ cereal. any other suggestions, or how are you feeding your LOs?

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  • Soon2BMrsNSoon2BMrsN member
    2.  DS loves his oatmeal, so he has it at breakfast and dinner.  He's not too keen on finger foods or meat yet.
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  • Breezer80Breezer80
    We mix most of her meals with cereal to thicken them. To fight constipation, she eats a lot of poop-inducing foods, like pears and prunes. We've never really had a problem, luckily.
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  • MrsBattyMrsBatty

    Our pedi told us the exact same thing.  So, I try to give E oatmeal in 2 out of 3 meals.  

    I tend to think that it's constipating her also ...

    I keep wondering when the "you need to include cereal in most meals" stops?  

    I mean ... eventually it has to stop right? 

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  • evhammevhamm
    cereal of some sort at breakfast and at afternoon snack... other times he eats bread, pasta, rice, crackers, etc. to get his 'grains' in.
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  • bride711bride711 member

    This happened with our DS. He was getting rice cereal about 3 tbsp. twice a day. I cut back slightly by one tbsp each meal and increased the fruit. I was intially just mixing it with formula but with the iron component and the solids he was getting constipated. So this is what I do now:

    Breakfast: Mix 2tbsp rice cereal with an 1 1/2 oz formula and 4 ounces of pears. He also gets 2oz prunes.

    Lunch: Yogurt

    Dinner: Chicken meal/turkey meal with veggies and rice cereal mixed with formula and pears.

    As he goes through growth spurts or his sleep starts to get broken I gradually increase his rice cereal and solids. He also takes about 21-24 ounces a formula a day.

    His BM's are much better like soft serve ice cream and he doesnt strain as much as he used to. I feel like Pears really help. Someone told me that anything that starts with "p" are good poop foods....haha.

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  • stellasmommystellasmommy
    i've been giving DD pears and prunes everyday. thank goodness she likes them! but unless she has prune juice, she still poops either a poop nugget, or peanut butter like poop, and strains to get that out. maybe i need to increase how much "p" fruit she's getting. right now she'll get a 2.5oz container of pears or prunes with her cereal. for food she's already had i'm thinking of switching to stage 2 since it's a larger container, and she loves to eat. would mixing her cereal w/ water instead of formula help any?
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  • JesykaC21JesykaC21

    imagestellasmommy:
    i've been giving DD pears and prunes everyday. thank goodness she likes them! but unless she has prune juice, she still poops either a poop nugget, or peanut butter like poop, and strains to get that out. maybe i need to increase how much "p" fruit she's getting. right now she'll get a 2.5oz container of pears or prunes with her cereal. for food she's already had i'm thinking of switching to stage 2 since it's a larger container, and she loves to eat. would mixing her cereal w/ water instead of formula help any?

    sorry that just made me LOL! DS has had that too, once we started giving him peaches he hasn't had poop nuggets :-)

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  • stellasmommystellasmommy

    YAY for peaches! we're starting them tomorrow.

    the hard poop, i call it a nugget, DH calls it a biscuit :)

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  • Jen&Joe06Jen&Joe06 member

    2 - breakfast and dinner.

    I give a bit of water with lunch to help move things along.

    Our pedi said that the reason for giving the cereal twice a day is that LO's need the iron to help with their development.

     

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  • staceyk110staceyk110
    We do one meal with cereal, just breakfast. DS is just starting to eat finger foods, just a few cut up cooked veggies and fruits, everything else is by spoon.
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  • oct-weddingoct-wedding member

    My pedi never gave us a suggestion on what to feed either of my DS so we started with rice cereal only b/c of the consistency and then only used in the in am only or to thicken foods. Now he only has cereal if I don't have time to make him something else.

    He gets his iron from vitamins so I don't worry about it at all. The days I've given DS cereal 2x in a day he does tend to get constipated so I just make sure he gets more veggies or fruit for the next few consecutive meals.

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  • jenn11980jenn11980
    DS gets 2 tbsp of oatmeal with 2 oz of pears every morning for breakfast.  We used to mix cereal in with fruit for lunch, but at 8 months we started doing yogurt.  DS used to be really constipated and I would do water to help, but the pears consistently every morning is working well for him.
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