so my LO is sleeping from 82 which is good. and I am not adding rice to her last bottle.. but everyone is saying to add in a little rice and she will sleep through the night.. well my dr said that they don't do that cuz its just adding more cals.. and that its not proven to help sleep through the night.. but my mom did that with me and I was fine and slept through the night.. she is eating anywhere from 25 ozs and is 10 weeks old.. I mix breast and formula in her bottles..
is anyone else giving rice to help their LO sleep better..
Re: rice in bottles
Sleeping rom 8 to 2 then waking up to eat is NORMAL.
NO! There are many reasons cereal and rice in bottles for young babies is bad, I'll let you do your own research.
I will add that sleeping 6 hours is considered STTN by most pediatricians. If you want help so that YOU sleep through the night could you put LO to bed later? I can't go to sleep at 8pm so I let LO nap, then I feed her around 1030 so she goes to bed around 11. She'll then sleep until 4 or 5 so I get 5 to 6 hours sleep.
I wouldn't, isn't worth choking. There was another mommy that recently had a very scary experience with rice in bottle... Baby started choking well after being fed, scary!
I am convinced the reason our parents generation had much more success with STTN is they put us on our tummies. Which we know isn't right but babies do sleep a ton better. Again not worth the risk. ( my mom has been giving me the speech of how I slept all night too, and we are at 10 weeks and no where close)
A LC told me in a breast feeding class I took that feeding cereal before 4 months is linked to juvenile diabetes.
And I am really lucky too, DS sleeps an average of 7 hours on his own. Even if he didn't I would not add cereal though. Just my opinion.
Ladies, what's with all the byotchiness in this thread?
OP, I think you should follow your doctors advice. It is really hard to get inundated with way too much info / advice, so I decided to just stick to "single source of truth" and that is my pediatrician. Your mom (or, frankly, we here on TB), don't have the right answers for you, as we are not doctors.
That was me with choking scare..plus it did not help her sleep longer
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LOL. Doesn't everyone's mother or mother in law or neighbor or check out person at the grocery store have a medical degree?
OP, no. Honestly I think sleep is more child dependent than food dependent. DD eats markedly less than her brother did and sleeps better. He didn't STTN until 10 months and at 6 weeks she was consistently going 4 to 6 hours. Every kid is different and rice cereal is unlikely to be a magic cure. Just like there are ff kids who STTN late and EBF kids who STTN early...
love.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/health/manybabiesfedsolidfoodtoosooncdcfinds.html?_r=0
I agree. People can be harsh...when you are just asking for help because you obviously don't know. I'm a first time mom with no female role models for advise aside from my inlaws so I like to ask questions here for help...not to be made fun of. Sorry you are being treated in a way you feel bullied. I wish I had advice but I don't plan to use rice cereal. We are still nursing every 2 to 3 hours during the night and I still don't feel there is enough valid reason to give anything until at least 6 months.
One research article that shows feeding rice did not help babies STTN:
https://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=514762
and: No definitive link to rice and diabetes, but it might.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14519705?dopt=Abstract
" Conclusion: There may be a window of exposure to cereals in infancy outside which initial exposure increases IA risk in susceptible children."
A lot of the good things rice cereal does is provide iron for kids, because it is fortified with iron. Also most kids aren't allergic to it and it is bland so it is easy to start with. Doctors are starting to rethink it though, because there is no nutrition (other than what is added to it) and it may set kids up to liking processed foods:
Not a scientific study, but the newspaper article that brought it to many people's attention:
https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/yourlife/parenting-family/babies/2010-12-01-babyfood01_st_N.htm