Experts don't recommend starting
with rice cereal as this has virtually zero impact on a baby's taste development and very little nutritional value to boot.
We started
with rice cereal because I had read in many places that a single grain cereal should be the first solid introduced.
Many parents prefer to start their
babies with a rice cereal because it is rich in iron and because allergies are very uncommon.
The trick is getting the consistency right with the oats / cereal, and you may try adjusting the proportions to find what
works with the rice cereal.
If you choose to
go with rice cereal, be sure to choose something organic made from brown rice.
For example our pediatrician told us to start our
daughter with rice cereal and now I have read that it is one of the worst foods to start with.
Following the theme of baby sleep, a common tactic to help babies sleep better at night was to give them a bottle of breast milk or
formula with rice cereal mixed into it.
I started my daughter Kailey at 5
months with rice cereal first mixed with banana and then I moved her onto oatmeal, then other solid baby food.
Also, my mom recently found the instructions that were given to her mother when her sister was born in 1957... she was told to give her condensed
milk with rice cereal as a newborn.
However, before you go racing to fill your infant's
bottle with rice cereal, you should know something — there's no evidence that feeding your baby solids (whether by spoon or by bottle) will help her sleep better.
If you thicken the
fluid with rice cereal you will need a variable flow nipple to allow the fluid to flow faster; since the fluid is thicker it is harder to suck.
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Really wanted to start solids at 6 months but my baby's got bad reflux so dr said i must start at 4
months with rice cereal.
No way was I going to pump and thicken his
milk with rice cereal; I wanted my baby to get breast milk, and I wanted to make sure he was going to get it directly from the source.
At some point, you may have a well - meaning but old school relative tell you that your baby will feel fuller and sleep better at night if you thicken his milk or
formula with some rice cereal in his bottle.
You know a lot of people the old recommendation used to be 4 months
start with some rice cereal and because of the iron added to it but that added fortified iron is poorly absorbed, to begin with and so we didn't really see a reason to give them kind of you know fake iron supplement.
how old was McKenna when you started
her with rice cereal?
However I wish I had them when I was breastfeeding not that I had low milk supply I just had a child who would throw up each feeding due to feeding difficulties we had to thicken her formula
with rice cereal and I added breast milk to the mix for added nutrition.
Key considerations when you're choosing baby's first foods (hint: you don't have to start
with rice cereal).
Do you start
with rice cereal or vegetables?
I woke up and seen her feeding her formula
with rice cereal!
My ped says you DO NOT have to start
with rice cereal.
When you do offer solids, start
with rice cereal and gradually add a cooked or mashed fruit or vegetable.
All she'd have to do later on was to microwave a cube or two and mix
it with rice cereal!
Some people start
with rice cereal, but I skipped that part and went straight to the fruits and vegetables.
Remember that although the «rules» for offering baby food are much looser these days, there was nothing really wrong with the classic method of starting
with rice cereal, so you can still do that.
He won't eat
it with rice cereal as it is too thick.