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December 2010 Moms
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Rice cereal poll
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Do you give your LO rice cereal yet? What is your reason for giving it? I found out recently DH is in the "cereal for longer sleep" camp and want to know if it actually works. I want to wait as long as possible to start it and don't think LO needs it yet...
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Re: Rice cereal poll
We add rice cereal for reflux. She DOES NOT STTN.
We started giving LO rice cereal to thicken his formula after he was wrongly diagnosed with reflux. Turns out he had pyloric stenosis instead. We just started adding cereal to his nighttime bottles again a few weeks ago.
We use brown rice.
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Yeah, it's not going to magically make your LO STTN. It's more of a developmental thing. She does go longer at night than she does during the day but not STTN.
Charlie's pedi suggested starting rice cereal at 4 months and pureed veggies at 5 months to help with weight gain, but he's just not ready yet. We try a bit of cereal every now and then, but he's still instantly pushing 95% of it out of his mouth. He's been gaining weight steadily, just slowly, so I'm in no rush.
Ginny DX 21-Hydroxylase Deficiency Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
Charlie DX Specific Antibody Deficiency & ASD
I know I don't post often, but I just started giving my LO cereal and it made a world of difference. He has taken it really well and it totally changed his night sleeping. He seems a lot more satisfied and sleeps way better. But I think cereal is one of those things that's different for every baby. It helps with Gabe, but obviously isn't making a difference for other LO's on the board. I give him a tbs with his 6 ounce bottle and I started giving it to him because he never seemed satisfied with a bottle. He was literally drinking back to back bottles and at night he was waking up all the time.Since starting cereal we wake up about 8 hours after he goes to bed.
Obviously starting it early vs late is a personal choice and it works for us, but I don't know that I would recommend it just to try and get a baby to sleep through the night, it just happened to be a perk with my LO
This exactly. DS gets rice cereal in his bottle for reflux - he is nowhere near sleeping through the night.
we're going to start dd on oatmeal sunday morning. she's on similac alimentum, so i'm worried that the rice may be too binding for her.
No reflux, low weight issues here.
I think we're skipping rice cereal & doing BLW around 6 months. From what I've researched, makes good sense for us.
We have not. I have no immediate intention to give B solid foods until he's 6 months. We will see what his pediatrician has to say at his 4 month appt.
At the very least, he has to be able to sit up well and to have lost the tongue-thrust reflex. I won't consider adding it earlier than that.
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Ginny DX 21-Hydroxylase Deficiency Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
Charlie DX Specific Antibody Deficiency & ASD
Haha, thanks! I do too, I seriously LOVE that picture LOL.
I didn't talk to our pediatrician first, I knew it wouldn't hurt him to start a couple weeks early. I know our Dr. says I can try at 3 months, so I started 2 weeks early. He's my 3rd, they have all started at different times. My daughter started around 4 months and DS1 a little after 4 months. I knew that DS2 needed something more because he absolutely seemed unsatisfied. I'll tell the Dr. at his 4 month appt, it's a pain in the butt to get an appt or to have a ped call you back here on our base, so knowing it wouldn't hurt him to try it was enough for me.
What is BLW?
Baby led weaning
ETA: because apparently, I can't spell.
Ginny DX 21-Hydroxylase Deficiency Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
Charlie DX Specific Antibody Deficiency & ASD
Oh cool! Thanks!
We won't be doing rice cereal or any of the baby cereals. We're going straight to table foods when we think DS is ready.
Tongue thrust is the wway their tongues pop out of their mouths, the feeding cue so to speak. If you give them a spoon when they still have a strong tongue thrust they'll just push it off.
I was going to start DD on baby rice around 5 months, in combination with finger foods, like DS, but only if she's showing interest. (He was absolutely ready by 5 months.) But the ped and LC are saying to wait to 6 months or later, unless she starts catching up on her weight... so we'll see.
we did this for our first. it didn't work and no, it does not "make them sleep"!!
DH and I are going to try rice cereal with DS around 4 months, but not push it too hard.
MIL has been hounding us to start since 4 weeks (you know, because "that's what I did for my kids so by God it's the only way, current research be damned").
Same here.