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Rice and STTN!!!

janamgjanamg member
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Okay I know people say that feeding babies rice doesn't help with STTN. I beg to differ. I just started DD two nights ago on rice and the first night she woke up once and last night she STTN. I was so happy when I got up at 5:45 and she was still sleeping!!!Big Smile
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    mben1119mben1119 member
    It isn't the rice.
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    bumpuser4307348bumpuser4307348 member
    I wish this were true for me.  I started putting rice or oatmeal in every one of LO's bottles for reflux and he is eating twice each night now instead of once!  Backfire!
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    ScramblersmomScramblersmom member

    imagemabenner1:
    It isn't the rice.

    No one knows for sure if it helps or not as they have not conducted large scale scientific studies to prove or disprove the hypothesis. It is all anecdotal evidence.

     We gave our DS a bit of rice cereal a little over 2 mo. (the pedi Ok'd it too) and DS started sleeping 5.5 hour stretches at night instead of 2-3 immediately after the first night he got cereal. He then started STTN about 2 weeks later by himself. I will argue that the rice cereal did buy us an additional 3 hours of sleep. 

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    mben1119mben1119 member
    imagesmit5009:

    imagemabenner1:
    It isn't the rice.

    No one knows for sure if it helps or not as they have not conducted large scale scientific studies to prove or disprove the hypothesis. It is all anecdotal evidence.

     We gave our DS a bit of rice cereal a little over 2 mo. (the pedi Ok'd it too) and DS started sleeping 5.5 hour stretches at night instead of 2-3 immediately after the first night he got cereal. He then started STTN about 2 weeks later by himself. I will argue that the rice cereal did buy us an additional 3 hours of sleep. 

    And my son's sleep habits haven't changed one bit since we started cereal, and I didn't expect them to.

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    BettyBookwormBettyBookworm member
    imageMackalien13:

    imagemabenner1:
    It isn't the rice.

    ITA. 

    yeah this. Your kid STTN for one night. He was probably just ready to do so. 

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    MrsLeannaMrsLeanna member
    I think they're all different and they all will react differently. Not sure that anyone can make a blanket statement whether it works or not conclusively. If it works for her great! 
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    bridein08bridein08 member
    I beg to differ. It seems to work for some babies, and I've seen this happen to hundreds. Can't wait to start DS on rice cereal/oatmeal after his next visit to see if it will help him :)

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    iluvmylabiluvmylab member

    imagemabenner1:
    It isn't the rice.

    Yes

    It's most likely just a coincidence.  Around the time parents begin to try this, babies tend to start sleeping longer on their own.  With or without the rice.  It's empty calories that fill up their bellies with little nutritional value.

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    wychetswychets member

    imageclara5878:
    I wish this were true for me.  I started putting rice or oatmeal in every one of LO's bottles for reflux and he is eating twice each night now instead of once!  Backfire!

    Us too! Ughh we are waiting a few weeks to try again!

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