Rice Cereal

I'm glad the cereal worked for you. I gave my daughter cereal when she wouldn't sleep through and she woke up more. The doctor laughed at me when I told him.

With my son, it worked like a charm though. Good luck!!

I think I started Kaylee on it around 4 months! Good luck!

I started my daughter on rice cereal at around 3 months. She's 4 months now and still doesn't sleep through the night

fyi to the ladies who think feeding them will make them sleep.......it doesnt work. a baby will wake mostly for comfort....so stuffing them doesnt do them much good.

Ok i'm confused i think we have a different kind of rice over here because Mika's doesn't go in a bottle anyway, Mika started hers at urrrm 12 weeks maybe? Along those lines because hse was just so hungry and the doctor checked her out and said it was ok. She slept through the nigh tbefore then anyway but she's started waking up the past couple of days again

Cereal in a bottle is a HUUUGE no no!!!!!! It can be a serious choking hazard. Especially in very small babies. Esp if you have to manipulate the nipple (say for instance you have to cut the hole to make it bigger)

As she got older, I would put it in her cup. But she had been on cereal (since 3 weeks) and baby food since 5 weeks (by her Dr's orders).

Oni has NEVER had rice cereal. Only oatmeal or mixed grain.

it's a total wives tale that it makes them sleep longer. Oni slept through the night at 5 weeks, but I'm sure it had nothing to do with the food we gave her.

spoon feeding a 3-5 week old....FUN times!!! LOL!

Sarah

We are allowed to put cereal in a baby's bottle here. You only put a little bit in and its kind of hard for him to choke on something that when put in milk, turns to liquid because there is so little. I am not using it to make him sleep all night, its because he is growing and getting more hungry and he requires more to eat than just formula. As all babies grow they need more to satisfy him. If they are satisfied, they are less apt to wake up at night because they are hungry. My son, only wakes at night because he is hungry. I know that because I have gotten up with him and tried just soothing him back to sleep and he is screaming and sucking like crazy on his thumb and making his hungry sounds. I do not give him cereal to make him sleep, its because he is hungry and he does not need to be eating 8 6 oz bottles a day. So I am giving him cereal which stays with him longer than the milk does. If all babies ever needed was formula there would be no need to switch them to solid foods. Also, I did not have to cut his nipples, nor would I ever do that, I have him on the fast flow ones because the slow feed are not fast enough and he had to work too hard to get anything out of them now. As for solid foods at 3 weeks and 5 weeks? Wow thats insaine.. as for the sleeping through then, I am pretty sure that it woud have alot to do with the food, because when babies are satisfied and full at night they sleep much better because they are not waking up hungry. Rice cereal is much easier for them to digest when they start eating too. He will be getting the oatmeal cereal soon, but I have started him on the rice for now. Thats what my doctor told me to do. The rice cereal is designed for them to eat with a spoon, but some ppl put a small amount in their bottles at night because their babies are not satisfied with what they get from formula anymore. Every baby is different than the next and what everyone does is different from the other.

Mary

I have a question, if food doesn't make them sleep better then why do formula fed babies typically sleep longer then breastfed?
I thought it was because they consumed more calories?
Im thinking of starting Bree on it next month, but the nutritionist told me to introduce it mixed with formula in a bottle

Breast milk is the perfect food for babies. It cannot be replicated in formula.

It doesn't have the same waste products or other things in baby formular. If you started out breast feeding then changed to formula, the diapers smell awful in comparison!

Not all breast fed babies wake up often. That is an old wives tale.

jospeh was on rice cereal quite early, but he seemed to eat constantly like every 2 hrs 6oz bottles so something had to be done. jordynne eh i never really bothered with it, i tried giving her rice cereal a few times. she ate a lil , but eventually just started her on stage one baby foods around 4-5 mths. She doesnt sleep through the night she usually wakes once or twice for a bottle wich doesnt bother me at all. I am in the process of getting her on table foods now since she is 10 mths old! I gave my friend my old rice cereal that is unopened. explained to her how to mix it with formula and breast milk to make it to the consistency to feed them. And a good age to start at , sorta to get em used to eating with a spoon. I used to mix rice cereal in her baby food, i had alot of stage 1 so imixed rice cereal in it to thicken it up some for her when she was old of course and was able to chew and swallow. before that it was plain rice cereal. i have never ever tried the oatmeal or the othe rone before, i got a fruit one before the rice cereal but she didnt like it.

Again, I am not here to be bashed at how we feed our babies. Everyone does it different. Putting cereal in a bottle that comes with a larger hole in it, is no different than a sippy cup. Its watered down so much you can barely even tell its in there. I am only doing that to start him off as many mothers do until about a week and then they get it spoon fed when their tummys are used to a more solid food. Also, I am putting a tbsp of rice in a 6 oz bottle when shook up its barely even noticable that its in it.

Also, every babies needs are different when it comes to how much formula they eat and when they start on solids.