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rice cereal in a bottle? Please help!

Craigs#1GirlCraigs#1Girl member
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my daughter is 4.5 months old and her pedi gave us the go ahead to start giving her rice cereal.  We have tried for the past week to spoon feed it to her, even mixing in very small amounts of stage 1 (4 month appropriate) applesauce and bananas.  She is not having it but she needs something more than just BM according to the pedi (since she is the size of an average 6 month old).  I saw some playtex nipples that are used for cereal.  If I were to use rice cereal in the bottle with these nipples how much cereal do I use to how much BM?  I know it has to be thin enough to fit through the nipple.  Any suggestions?
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Re: rice cereal in a bottle? Please help!

  • adelepickleadelepickle
    My LO will be 4 mos on Monday and he is the size of a 6mo. old. I took a cheap Parent's Choice bottle from Walmart and cut the nipple opening to look like an X. I mix 6oz of water with 3 scoops of formula and 2 scoops of oatmeal or rice cereal. DS does really well with it.
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  • Bella6Bella6
    I personally would wait until baby shows signs of being ready. If you do choose to put it in the bottle, the enzymes in breastmilk will actually start to digest the cereal after sitting for a few minutes and it won't stay thick. 
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  • AdamsMom4AdamsMom4
    Is she not taking to the spoon well or does she just not like rice cereal? Our pediatrician said that it can take a couple of weeks for them to get used to spoon feeding. You might want to ask if you can try oatmeal or another type of cereal.
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  • spappyspappy

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    Is she not taking to the spoon well or does she just not like rice cereal? Our pediatrician said that it can take a couple of weeks for them to get used to spoon feeding. You might want to ask if you can try oatmeal or another type of cereal.

    Yeah, we were told absolutly NO food of any kind in her bottle. It took us about a week to get any realy amount of food in her tummy with the spoon. We ended up having to make it a little thicker so she could actually use her tongue to move it around.

    We also had to switch to oatmeal mixed with 3/4 water:1/4 juice. It helps keep her unconstipated.

    Just keep trying the spoon, with different textures.

    and just so you know, the aap recommends bf babies be ebf till 6 months. No cereal or solids until then.

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