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Rice Cereal question: experienced moms please help!

LindsE143LindsE143
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So, I just started DD on rice cereal last week, and I feel really stupid asking this, but I am confused: do I continue to mix rice cereal into her pureed fruit?  Or is the rice cereal just to get them used to eating something thicker with a spoon, and I ditch it all together once I start baby food?  I have tried to find the answer on the internet, but no luck.  I am also wondering - are you sticking to the "one solid food a day" rule, or do you do more than that?  Forgive me, I am new to this and have never really been around too many babies!!
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Re: Rice Cereal question: experienced moms please help!

  • JCGreene85JCGreene85 member
    I dont mix it. He just gets cereal for now for a few more weeks, then we'll do veggies, then after that, do fruits. He'll just get once a day for a while, then twice a day, maybe veggies in the morning, then cereal for dinner.. 
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  • bride2be79bride2be79

    Not an "experienced mom" as this is my first but I can tell you what we are doing.  We started solids (if you can call them that) about 2 weeks ago.  Basically, we did just cereal (mixed w/ breastmilk) for 3 days.  Then after 3 days (the time period they say an allergy will show up in) we added pears.  I mixed some of the pears w/ the cereal and gave her that first then let her have some pears by themselves.  After 3 days of that routine we added carrots so lunch looked like this:  nurse, cereal mixed w/ small amt of pears, carrots, pears, nurse (DD likes to begin and end w/ breastmilk, have tried to do it all at the beginning but it hasn't worked).  After 3 days on the carrots, we switched to peaches.  Then after three days of those, we swapped the carrots for peas.  Basically, she gets a veggie and a fruit and some cereal each day and we only add one thing at a time and then have it for at least 3 days before adding anything else.  She's only getting solids once a day right now.  She eats about 1/2 a container of the Gerber stage 1 foods of both the veggie and the fruit and about a tablespoon of cereal.  I figure once the box of cereal is empty I won't buy any more but I feel bad throwing it away (starving children and all).  So far, DD has loved all the food she's tried.   

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  • LindsE143LindsE143
    imagebride2be79:

    Not an "experienced mom" as this is my first but I can tell you what we are doing.  We started solids (if you can call them that) about 2 weeks ago.  Basically, we did just cereal (mixed w/ breastmilk) for 3 days.  Then after 3 days (the time period they say an allergy will show up in) we added pears.  I mixed some of the pears w/ the cereal and gave her that first then let her have some pears by themselves.  After 3 days of that routine we added carrots so lunch looked like this:  nurse, cereal mixed w/ small amt of pears, carrots, pears, nurse (DD likes to begin and end w/ breastmilk, have tried to do it all at the beginning but it hasn't worked).  After 3 days on the carrots, we switched to peaches.  Then after three days of those, we swapped the carrots for peas.  Basically, she gets a veggie and a fruit and some cereal each day and we only add one thing at a time and then have it for at least 3 days before adding anything else.  She's only getting solids once a day right now.  She eats about 1/2 a container of the Gerber stage 1 foods of both the veggie and the fruit and about a tablespoon of cereal.  I figure once the box of cereal is empty I won't buy any more but I feel bad throwing it away (starving children and all).  So far, DD has loved all the food she's tried.   

     

    Thank you so much for your response!  So basically since she's already been eating bananas with no problem, tomorrow I can give her some peas too?  This is such an exciting time! 

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  • nealblnealbl member
    LO gets 1 oz of formula mixed with rice and no sugar added applesauce for taste. She generally eats the whole thing and then will take a 4 oz bottle. 5 oz bottles every three hours the rest of the day. Then the second to last feeding at night she gets 2 tbs of sweet potatos and a 3 oz bottle.
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