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How did you introduce rice cereal?

kala1682kala1682
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DD had her 4 month appt today and Dr gave us the go ahead to start rice cereal. 

How did you start with a bottle or did you do spoon?  

Also which brand is best?

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Re: How did you introduce rice cereal?

  • sewhappysewhappy
    I introduced with a spoon.  But honestly, he didn't eat much until we started purees.  I think that got him more excited about eating from a spoon and now he'll eat it.
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  • m&m818m&m818
    Spoon. Mixed a bit with her formula. We used earth's best. I think we started with oatmeal cereal.
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  • Mrs.BoomBoomMrs.BoomBoom

    they say from a bottle is a choking hazard.

    I mixed with rice cereal...we used gerber.  He was NOT a fan

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  • lunabeamlunabeam

    We never put cereal in a bottle, just started with a spoon. We tried rice, and moved to oatmeal a few weeks later, mixing both with pumped BM.

    We used Earth's Best as well.

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  • AvaLikeLavaAvaLikeLava member

    We used a spoon, sitting down, mixed with breastmilk. I bought Earth's best.

    However, he ate it for a total of 3 days, because by day 3 he was SO badly constipated (rice is constipating) we stopped. I transitioned to wheat cereal (was it?) right after that.

    With this little guy I'm going to skip cereals altogether and go straight to avocado (or other veggie).

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  • AnyaBellaAnyaBella
    From what I understand, solids at this stage are more for practice (use of spoon, moving the food around in his mouth, swallowing) than actual nutritional value. This is why we chose to start with the spoon rather than putting it in a bottle. We started with Earth's Best and mixed it with breast milk. We have since moved on to other purees.
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  • kbrodie06kbrodie06 member
    We used a spoon and Oatmeal, she loved the oatmeal. I believe I used earths best.
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  • altreualtreu
    We skipped the cereals all together and just went right to avocado mashed with breastmilk. Then on to purees. Now he eats a ton of different foods, many of those are what we are eating. 
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