9-10 mo: Still feeding cereals?

MommyMar2010 · December 2010

I'm still giving LO cereal about 3x a day with her meals, usually oatmeal at breakfast with fruit. Rice with lunch and rice with dinner.

I'm wondering when to stop giving her cereals???? She's eating such a great variety of foods now, I feel like maybe she doesn't really need them (i know they are iron fortified, but she gets iron now from meats, green veggies and still her formula). I just am wondering if she's having too much cereal for her age?

What are other moms of 9/10 mo olds doing???

Melly Mel · December 2010

Jules gets cereal about every other day with some fruit in the morning. Defnitely nor at every meal though.

kristinem17 · December 2010

DS has only ever had cereal with his breakfast. Started with rice, than it was oatmeal and now it's mixed grain. On the days he has cereal for breakfast, I mix it with 1 jar of stage 3 fruit puree. He alternates cereal with scrambled eggs and toast, waffles and yogurt. So it's like on a rotation every 4 days. For lunch he has table food - chicken pieces, turkey pieces, pasta, soup, boiled veggies and fruit pieces. For dinner he has a stage 3 dinner and 1/3 jar of stage 3 fruit puree. He also has a 4oz bottle after each meal and snacks in between too. He's like 50/50 baby food vs table food - actually leaning more toward 40/60 now. Want to be totally done with baby foods around the 1 year mark.

memali26 · December 2010

DD usually gets cereal for breakfast with her fruit. Sometimes I'll use cereal to thicken her lunch/dinner purees if they thaw out a little runny, but not very often. I know she is getting iron from her green veggies and formula and a little bit of meat, so I'm not concerned about the amount of cereal she is eating these days.

mrs.dovey · December 2010

We only do cereal during breakfast. I actually get a stage 2 with fruit and oatmeal. I h?vn't done the boxed rice or oatmeals in a long time though

MommyMar2010 · December 2010

After reading these posts, I think i'm way over doing the cereal--definitely going to back off the cereal to maybe at just breakfast and see how she does.

Thanks

goldenleaves · December 2010

We still give Ryan cereal at night and sometimes in the morning. We mix it with some applesauce and he loves it.

KRMac · December 2010

My plan is to polish off the cereal we have left now and then be done with it! I think we still have 2 boxes.

shortstuff15 · December 2010

I haven't done cereal for a while. She stopped eating it, so I stopped buying it. She actually isn't on any baby food (besides formula) at all. She is on table food only because she just doesn't eat baby food anymore.

MarMat · December 2010

I'm doing cereal with fruit at breakfast and dinner. She loves it. I'm planning to leave it for a couple of weeks more and then change breakfast. (In Mexico our strong meal is lunch)

but also I still give it to her to gain some weight. Our pedi wanted to gain a bit, so she recommended cereal for a while.

GL!

Jeni182 · December 2010

We skipped cereal altogether and just started with home made purees. He gets all kinds of food now and his iron test came back fine at his 9month appointment so I think you're probably fine giving less cereal.

liza0828 · December 2010

She still has cereal once or twice a day. She doesn't like veggies much, but will eat them if I mix them in cereal.

curlychic · December 2010

We mix the dry cereal the purees bc DS hates the texture of the purees. He a veggie and fruit puree for lunch, veggie and meat for dinner and a dessert puree at around 7.

mayowife · December 2010

DS gets cereal once a day at breakfast.

MammaBear81 · December 2010

DD gets oatmeal about every other day just to keep things "flowing" other than that she eats what everyone else is eating (plus formula)

mojito14 · December 2010

We aren't 9 months yet, but I'll answer anyway. The only time Harrison gets cereal is when I have to mix it in with either his fruit or veggie and only because it's too runny.

Other than that, he eats almost everything we eat, so I don't really see a need.

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