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Solids?

PBugMomPBugMom
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DS will turn 4 months next week, and his pedi already is reccommending we put rice cereal in his bottle and do a serving of pureed food (as much as he'll eat) in a day, if extrusion reflux is permitting the latter.

To me, it seems young for the puree (I'm OK with the rice cereal, but if DS weren't such a skinny baby, I'd likely put my foot down there too), and I'm wondering where everyone else's kid is with this timetable.  Before DS was born, pedi was advocating EBF for the first 6 months if I could swing it.

DS Feb 2011
...no thanks to my PCOS (Dx 2006,though should've been dx during maybe the Clinton years).

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  • ahughes108ahughes108
    My DS was 4 months last tuesday and he has been eating cereal with pureed fruit/veggies for three weeks now only in the evenings. I couldn't get him filled up at night so we started with rice cereal and have been introducing different fruits and veggies about every 5 days. He loves bananas and sweet potatoes. I have been feeding him with a spoon, I never did the cereal in a bottle. I also breastfeed during the day.
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    We started Mj on cereal memorial weekend. We also started on Earth's Best Apples.  He doesn't get the concept of the spoon yet but we try.  I was told to use 1/3 of a jar once a day.  But I was told if he didn't like it then i could wait longer. 

    Since we started the cereal he's going to bed earlier (7:30 instead of 8:30/9:00).  he'll also wake up for his binky at 6:30 and go back to sleep until 7:30ish.

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  • Wufroggy79Wufroggy79 member

    imageahughes108:
    My DS was 4 months last tuesday and he has been eating cereal with pureed fruit/veggies for three weeks now only in the evenings. I couldn't get him filled up at night so we started with rice cereal and have been introducing different fruits and veggies about every 5 days. He loves bananas and sweet potatoes. I have been feeding him with a spoon, I never did the cereal in a bottle. I also breastfeed during the day.

    Curious...what this on your own or through your pedi's advice?  I have read that solids (the purees - not necessarily cereals) are a serious no, no prior to 4 months.  Sounds like you started shortly after 3 months?

    It is also a myth that rice cereal will make your baby STTN or sleep longer.  

     

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  • PBugMomPBugMom
    imagenbeseau:

    imageahughes108:
    My DS was 4 months last tuesday and he has been eating cereal with pureed fruit/veggies for three weeks now only in the evenings. I couldn't get him filled up at night so we started with rice cereal and have been introducing different fruits and veggies about every 5 days. He loves bananas and sweet potatoes. I have been feeding him with a spoon, I never did the cereal in a bottle. I also breastfeed during the day.

    Curious...what this on your own or through your pedi's advice?  I have read that solids (the purees - not necessarily cereals) are a serious no, no prior to 4 months.  Sounds like you started shortly after 3 months?

    It is also a myth that rice cereal will make your baby STTN or sleep longer.  

     

    My child doesn't sleep anyway, so no big loss. Whats the reasoning on purees?
    DS Feb 2011
    ...no thanks to my PCOS (Dx 2006,though should've been dx during maybe the Clinton years).

    P/SAIF always welcome, especially if you share your sticky baby dust! **Looking to buy some gently used, one size Fuzzibunz. PM/Page me if you're selling. Thanks!**
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  • Wufroggy79Wufroggy79 member
    imagePBugMom:
    imagenbeseau:

    imageahughes108:
    My DS was 4 months last tuesday and he has been eating cereal with pureed fruit/veggies for three weeks now only in the evenings. I couldn't get him filled up at night so we started with rice cereal and have been introducing different fruits and veggies about every 5 days. He loves bananas and sweet potatoes. I have been feeding him with a spoon, I never did the cereal in a bottle. I also breastfeed during the day.

    Curious...what this on your own or through your pedi's advice?  I have read that solids (the purees - not necessarily cereals) are a serious no, no prior to 4 months.  Sounds like you started shortly after 3 months?

    It is also a myth that rice cereal will make your baby STTN or sleep longer.  

     

    My child doesn't sleep anyway, so no big loss. Whats the reasoning on purees?

    Here's an article from Time: 

    https://healthland.time.com/2011/02/07/babies-who-start-solids-too-early-more-likely-to-be-obese/

    Children who start solids before 4 months are 6 times more likely to be obese by age 3.  This was in FF babies.

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