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When to start on solids?

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Okay, DD is now 8 1/2 months old 5 1/2 adjusted age.  She has reflux and is on Prilosec and it seems to be working.  She takes about 6oz of formula with 1-1 1/2 tablespoon of rice cereal in her bottle and takes it down pretty good.  How and when did you start your LO on solid food?  And how often during the day did you replace the bottle with solid food? 

 

Thanks!!

 

 

Olivia Madison born July 27th, 2011 at 27w6d at 10:44pm 1lb 11oz 13 1/2 inches delivered c-section due to Severe Preeclampsia and PIH
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  • AlwaysSunny925AlwaysSunny925 member
    This is definitely a question for your pedi, but we started with Ryan this week.  He is 6.5 months/3 months adjusted.  Our pedi suggested it to combat some constipation issues.  We skipped rice cereal since that can make constipation worse, and are doing oatmeal once a day for now.
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    imageAlwaysSunny925:
    This is definitely a question for your pedi, but we started with Ryan this week.  He is 6.5 months/3 months adjusted.  Our pedi suggested it to combat some constipation issues.  We skipped rice cereal since that can make constipation worse, and are doing oatmeal once a day for now.

     This is what we did..they told us to start early for practice..I don't think Andrew was ready.  The oatmeal constipates my kids too.  We started Elliott at 5 adjusted and it was much better.

     

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  • sroddy12sroddy12 member
    imagegraciousmeg82:

    Okay, DD is now 8 1/2 months old 5 1/2 adjusted age.  She has reflux and is on Prilosec and it seems to be working.  She takes about 6oz of formula with 1-1 1/2 tablespoon of rice cereal in her bottle and takes it down pretty good.  How and when did you start your LO on solid food?  And how often during the day did you replace the bottle with solid food? 

     

    Thanks!!

     

     

    I was wondering the same thing!  Also, when did you start giving her rice cereal in her formula?  My son has acid reflux too (born 9 weeks early) and is also on prilosec but i'm going to ask my doctor about the rice cereal at his next appoitnment.  Thanks!

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  • graciousmeg82graciousmeg82 member
    DD started on rice cereal about 2 months ago for her reflux and it seems to help a bit.  She still spits up though..
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  • adrielegorburuadrielegorburu member
    DD has had rice cereal added to her bottles since the NICU - she still gets it - we started solids at 6 months adjusted, we started with oatmeal mixed with formula on a spoon once a day - then twice a day until I was convinced her tounge push reflex was gone and then we started a few spoonfulls of carrots or apple puree once a day - i still havent replaced any bottles with food, but we now do solid food three times a day before bottles and she drinks less at those feedings then at a bottle alone feeding. shes 9 months adjusted now and eating great -
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  • Rachie_BRachie_B member
    Our pediatrician had us start Sophia on cereal (oatmeal) at 6 months old (3 1/2 adjusted).  We then slowly started adding veggies (sweet potatoes/squash) then added fruits.  We would wait to add something every 4 days! We always did the solids with a bottle.  
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