cereal?

klrrat · February 2012

when would you add cereal to their bottles? i looked in my babybook and my mom had me eating cereal at 5.5 weeks!!

Cinamom · February 2012

Gotta love the old days! We won't be giving LO anything but BM until 6 months.

Vatwill · February 2012

Not until at least 4 months I think. If you give them cereal too early, it puts them at a predisposition to become obese and their digestive systems are not developed enough for the cereal yet either

Qmommy · February 2012

Never adding cereal to a bottle. I'll give cereal as a "meal" at 6 months but I may skip that and go straight to "real" food.

theballandchain · February 2012

Vatwill:
Not until at least 4 months I think. If you give them cereal too early, it puts them at a predisposition to become obese and their digestive systems are not developed enough for the cereal yet either

this. but we we'll give cereal as a meal not in a bottle.

NiniJ55 · February 2012

Cereal should never be added to the bottle unless suggested by the Dr. for acid reflux.

My mom tried to get me to give DS cereal in his bottle from about 3 months old. I never did it. We started solids at 4 months old - by spoon of course.

I often see young girls around here with what looks to me like carrot or s.potato puree mixed with milk in the bottle.

mbgreenwalt · February 2012

I won't be giving cereal until 5.5 months. It is not necessary unless recommended by the pedi. My DD has reflux and our pedi said we could use, but I didn't want her on any soilds. I just feel she is too young for it still. I start at 5.5 months spoon feeding a few tablespoons a day to get her used to the spoon so I can start purees at 6 months.

jat11 · February 2012

my pedi office said we'd talk about cereal and real food at his 4 mo appt. and not to start before then.

lemonJAM · February 2012

We will probably start with baby oatmeal around 5 months or whenever our pedi recommends. We started then with DD. We will feed by spoon not in the bottle.

KandT0919 · February 2012

We didn't use cereal.. we did oatmeal and with a spoon when she was 5.5 months... We JUST started stage 2/3 in the last week and she's 8 months old now

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