Reflux babies - adding rice cereal and nipple size?

zfa061309 · April 2013

Is anyone else adding rice cereal to formula to help with reflux??

If so... What is your experience:

How much cereal?

bottle brands?

nipple flow stages?

I'm doing 4oz....2 scoops formula and 2 scoops rice cereal. I've tried dr. Brown and playtex....seems like the slow flow clogs, medium is still too slow, and fast flow is too fast and makes her spit up more.

Advice please!

zfa061309 · April 2013

My pediatrician recommended this to prevent her from spitting up so much.

MrsT0514 · April 2013

kbruington:
I would askf a pedi before doing this. Adding rice cereal is a choking hazard so you need to be careful.
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Diver10 · April 2013

We do 4 oz milk and 2 teaspoons of cereal. We use slow flow playtex nipples and I use a large toothpick to "stretch" the hole. I've found medium flow is too fast yet for my LO.

Daisy622 · April 2013

We do 4oz milk and 1 TBSP cereal. I purchased Avent nipples for solids.....they seem to work well; they have 3 levels to manage the flow per nipple.

LSU628 · April 2013

I do two tsp of rice cereal to 4 ozs. I'm using the level 2 Dr Brown's nipples.

happytotmom · April 2013

We used Enfamil AR instead of adding rice cereal. It contains rice and is a thick formula. It can constipate so we ended up figuring out that giving it at every second feeding was the trick for our LO. It kept his reflux manageable and t

ChristyML · April 2013

I do 4 oz of formula and I put in a scoop (from an old formula can from the formula) of rice cereal. He has never choked, and I use Nuk bottles, medium flow nipple (I haven't had to make any holes wider with a needle or anything), and my son is 6 months o

okami.mami · April 2013

Our pedi also had us switch to A.R. instead of adding rice to the bottle. Leo was constipated for the first week, but then his body adjusted. We're lucky with that one! His reflux is a lot better, although we do still have bad days every now and a

zfa061309 · April 2013

I used the enfamil AR for a while...but we had to switch to soy. So that's why we have to add in the cereal. I had my hubby pick up some dr. Brown wide bottles today and used a level three nipple. Seemed to work well so far. </p

zfa061309 · April 2013

We actually did half and half of AR formula and breast milk at first...pedi said that would help with reflux and prevent constipation.

briannareno · April 2013

Unfortunately LOs reflux is horrible. We are actually seeing a specialist next month. But for now our pedi is having us do two teaspoons PER OUNCE. No nipple would get this thick of "milk" through (it's barely even milk any more its so thick!) so I actual

mervsbaby · April 2013

I do this for my 3 month old. She gets 4-5 oz and 1TBSP of rice cereal, pediatrician's and gerber's recommendations. I used a fork to make a slightly bigger hole in her stan

SarrahLeB · April 2014

You know they're ready when they get 'fussy' because the food doesn't come out quick enough.

We use Avent; I switched to size 2 when my son was 3 months old, and switched him to size 3 when he was 6 months old.

daisy19782011 · April 2014

We did it b/c of reflux by doctor's recommendation, but we did a 4 oz bottle with 1 tsp. of rice per bottle. We did have to go up a nipple size. I am not sure what a "scoop" of rice cereal is, but that may be too much.

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