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Starting preemies on cereal

ChrisP2013ChrisP2013 member
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What age, actual & adjusted, did you start giving your preemie cereal/pablum?
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  • gault530gault530 member
    I started at 7 mos old, 4 mos adjusted.  It was a struggle in the beginning because they kept pushing the spoon out of their mouth with their tongue, but I continued trying and within a month they got it.
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  • KTZ17KTZ17 member
    BostonKisses2 said:
    About 7m actual, 4.5 adjusted.  We waited until she started showing interest in solids.  Cereal was not a hit for us, so we ended up moving straight to purees.

    This, except she was like 6.5 actual, 4.5 adjusted. Started with rice cereal and she hated it, so we went right into avocado & sweet potato purées.

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  • Pips09Pips09 member
    We started cereal and purees at 6 months adjusted. She wasn't having it, so we tabled it for a couple months before trying again (it was a whole saga).
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  • Missa_gMissa_g member
    We didn't. We went straight to solids (BLW) at 8.5m actual/6m adjusted, which is when they showed signs of readiness.
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  • carrotcake06carrotcake06 member
    We started at 6mo actual / 4.5mo adjusted. They were ready and we did cereal once or twice before moving on to a combo of purees and BLW. We transitioned to full time BLW around 9.5mo actual / 8mo adjusted.
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  • meldoo2002meldoo2002 member
    We never did cereal, but we started purees at 6 months actual, 3.5 months adjusted.   We only did 1 meal/day at that point and moved up very slowly.  They were showing a lot of interest in our food by that point.  

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  • ashleymarie512ashleymarie512 member
    edited May 2014
    We also skipped cereal, as she never really liked it. We tried BLW when she was about 7mos/4.5 adjusted and she wasn't really having it. We just kept trying and at about 8mos actual she got the hang of it. She still isn't into BLW but loves purées and puffs.
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