February 2011 Moms
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So who's feeding their 4 month olds cereal??
Bella is 4 months old today and idk if we should start cereal or not? I kind of feel like...well why not, but then I'm like...well why? Lol.....Everything says 4-6 months. When is everyone else starting?
Nicole, Mommy to baby Jordan Santiago born 3-31-06 and Isabella Grace born 1/28/2011
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Re: So who's feeding their 4 month olds cereal??
I personally wouldn't start without talking to your pedi first. If they say okay, I think cereal is fine. Personally I am waiting until 6 mths to start solids since the rec keeps changing between 4-6 but is always by 6mth. I would rather wait that bit longer. We are starting to offer a little bit of rice cereal now at 4 mths because he's got reflux and that might help him feel better. We've only done it once so far and he still has a strong tongue thrust reflex so we'll wait a week or two to try again. All other food will be starting a 6 mths.
It seems to be a really personal decision, lots of people want to hurry up and start, plenty of people want to wait. Talk to your pedi and decide what you prefer to do.
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No idea. My 2nd child wasn't even ready at 6 months, she didn't want anything but bewb juice til she was 7 months. If your baby enjoys it, fine, but there's no nutritional value to rice cereal and I don't plan on giving her tester bites til she's 6 months.
You can always give her tester bites and see how she likes it... If not, then you're saving money for the next 2 months.
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We started the day after she turned 4 months. Because of her reflux, the pedi was suggesting a little in her bottles at 2 months, but being on the Enfamil AR was basically the same thing, so we didn't start until last week.
She is LOVING it. She had started getting fussy watching us eat and if you ate with her on your lap, she'd open her mouth every time you'd get a spoonful of something anywhere near her. Being able to do fruits/veggies has really helped the constipation issues we've been having with the Enfamil AR.
At 12 weeks we tried to put cereal into her bottle but she didn't like it that much. I also tried 1 time to feed her a little to help with reflux. Now at 14 weeks we have a prescription for reflux that is NASTY tasting. We are giving it to her and then giving her a small amount of cereal, carrots or bananas... she prefers the carrots and will take the medications very easy with them. At first she didn't get the tongue motion but we learned to put the food on the top of her mouth and she pulls it back fine.
We also started noticing her staring at us about a week ago and getting fussy when we ate our meals. In the past week she is also opening her mouth wanting food.
And by the way - with the food and meds the reflux is almost gone. She is not screaming bloody murder when we burp her and yesterday I never had to change her cloths!!!! (we were going through 5-6 outfits on her and a few of our own daily) When she does spit up its thicker too so its not like vomit or projectile. Her bowels are even better though she never really had much problems that mylicon didn't relieve.