feeding baby cereal|When did you start feeding your baby cereal?

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Question–: When did you start feeding your baby cereal?
How old was your child when you starting feeding them baby cereal, and how did you feed it? Thanks

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Answer by ✿.｡.:* ??? Happily married・*.:｡✿
i start feeding him at 6 months and not cereal only babies food.

Answer by Lost in Space
I started my first son, when he was 2 1/2 weeks old, my second son the day he came home from the hospital, and my third son, when he was about 3-4 weeks old. The first 2 were in a bottle, the infa-feeder, and the third was with a spoon. If you are going to try, use the oatmeal, it’s less binding than the Rice, which might cause constipation.

Answer by stephanieboross
5 mths. and i mix it with a bit of formula.

Answer by !!Joeys Mommie!!
at 3 months i started putting it in his bottle because of reflux and the doctor suggested it

and a week before 4 months by spoon
and he hated it so i just did veggies

Answer by jj240
maybe about 5 months old-8 months… used baby gerber cereal, mixed with emfamil formula. Mixed the formula, enough for what it calls for in the cereal, then mixed it all together, microwave for maybe 30 seconds…

Answer by Austin’s mom
He was 5 months old and we gave him a little bit of cereal mixed with formula or water. When he was a little older we mixed it with fruit and he loved it!

Answer by Meow&Rocco
About 3.5 months. Mixed in the breast milk (a teaspoon full) twice a day, the first and the last bottle for the day. You can play around with the cereal amount, but make sure that you will not give too much cuz the baby can get constipated.

My daughter, now 11 months old, did not get a long with rice cereal at first (got too constipated) so we gave her baby oatmeal instead and worked great.

Have fun!

Answer by dreamlover6094
i started 2 weeks ago.. he turned 4 months on feb21. i mixed it with formula and he liked it.. for the last week i mix it with stage 1 bananas and he loves it

Answer by Cynical
i started my daughter on rice cereal when she was 3-4 months. i mixed it with her formula (instead of water) in a little bowl and spoon fed her. i only used the cereal once a day and by six months she was having it twice a day (breakfast and dinner) then i started moving her to fruits and veggies.

Answer by mystic_eye_cda
I have a 16 month old and a 3 year old and I have never, and will never, feed a baby the crap they sell as “baby cereal”.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9646449/page…
Take rice cereal, for example. Under conventional American wisdom, it’s the best first food. But Butte says iron-rich meat — often one of the last foods American parents introduce — would be a better choice.

Dr. David Ludwig of Children’s Hospital Boston, a specialist in pediatric nutrition, says some studies suggest rice and other highly processed grain cereals actually could be among the worst foods for infants.

“These foods are in a certain sense no different from adding sugar to formula. They digest very rapidly in the body into sugar, raising blood sugar and insulin levels” and could contribute to later health problems, including obesity, he says.

The lack of variety in the American approach also could be a problem. Exposing infants to more foods may help them adapt to different foods later, which Ludwig says may be key to getting older children to eat healthier.

http://www.kellymom.com/nutrition/solids…
Cereal is not at all necessary, particularly the baby cereals. Regular (whole grain) oatmeal is more nutritious for your baby.

http://www.askdrsears.com/faq/ci2.asp
The truth is, there is nothing special about these foods that makes them better to start out with. Babies don’t actually even need rice cereal

http://www.llli.org/llleaderweb/LV/LVDec…
Meat provides additional protein, zinc, B-vitamins, and other nutrients which may be in short supply when the decrease in breast milk occurs. A recent study from Sweden suggests that when infants are given substantial amounts of cereal, it may lead to low concentrations of zinc and reduced calcium absorption (Persson 1998). Dr. Nancy Krebs has shared preliminary results from a large infant growth study suggesting that breastfed infants who received pureed or strained meat as a primary weaning food beginning at four to five months, grow at a slightly faster rate. Dr. Krebs’ premise is that inadequate protein or zinc from complementary foods may limit the growth of some breastfed infants during the weaning period. Both protein and zinc levels were consistently higher in the diets of the infants who received meat (Krebs 1998). Thus the custom of providing large amounts of cereal products and excluding meat products before seven months of age may not meet the nutritional needs of all breastfed infants.
Meat has also been recommended as an excellent source of iron in infancy. Heme iron (the form of iron found in meat) is better absorbed than iron from plant sources. In addition, the protein in meat helps the baby more easily absorb the iron from other foods. Two recent studies (Makrides 1998; Engelmann 1998) have examined iron status in breastfed infants who received meat earlier in the weaning period. These studies indicate that while there is not a measurable change in breastfed babies’ iron stores when they receive an increased amount of meat (or iron), the levels of hemoglobin circulating in the blood stream do increase when babies receive meat as one of their first foods.

http://www.westonaprice.org/children/nou…
Finally, respect the tiny, still-developing digestive system of your infant. Babies have limited enzyme production, which is necessary for the digestion of foods. In fact, it takes up to 28 months, just around the time when molar teeth are fully developed, for the big-gun carbohydrate enzymes (namely amylase) to fully kick into gear. Foods like cereals, grains and breads are very challenging for little ones to digest. Thus, these foods should be some of the last to be introduced. (One carbohydrate enzyme a baby’s small intestine does produce is lactase, for the digestion of lactose in milk.1)

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Babies do produce functional enzymes (pepsin and proteolytic enzymes) and digestive juices (hydrochloric acid in the stomach) that work on proteins and fats.12 This makes perfect sense since the milk from a healthy mother has 50-60 percent of its energy as fat, which is critical for growth, energy and development.13 In addition, the cholesterol in human milk supplies an infant with close to six times the amount most adults consume from food.13 In some cultures, a new mother is encouraged to eat six to ten eggs a day and almost ten ounces of chicken and pork for at least a month after birth. This fat-rich diet ensures her breast milk will contain adequate healthy fats.14
Thus, a baby’s earliest solid foods should be mostly animal foods since his digestive system, although immature, is better equipped to supply enzymes for digestion of fats and proteins rather than carbohydrates.1 This explains why current research is pointing to meat (including nutrient-dense organ meat) as being a nourishing early weaning food.

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content…
The results indicate that in a group of healthy, well growing 12-month-old Swedish infants one-quarter is iron-depleted, although iron deficiency anaemia is rare, and one-third may be zinc-depleted. The high cereal intake of Swedish infants from 6 months of age may have limited the bioavailability of both iron and zinc from the diet.

http://www.jpgn.org/pt/re/jpgn/abstract….
Conclusions: These results confirm that meat as a complementary food for breast-fed infants can provide a rich source of dietary zinc that is well absorbed. The significant positive correlation between zinc intake and exchangeable zinc pool size suggests that increasing zinc intake positively affects metabolically available zinc.

http://www.borstvoeding.com/voedselintro…
It appears that a baby’s general development keeps pace with the development of his ability to manage food in his mouth, and to digest it. A baby who is struggling to get food into his mouth is probably not quite ready to eat it.

Pureed baby food is ‘unnatural’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/676279…
She said children should be fed only with breast or formula milk for six months, then weaned onto solids to improve control over how much they ate.

This could prevent babies becoming picky about food.

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Solids best

After six months, Mrs Rapley said babies were capable of taking food into their mouths and chewing it.

Therefore, feeding them pureed food at this time could delay the development of chewing skills.

Instead, she said, they should be given milk and solid pieces of food which they could chew.

Mrs Rapley argued that babies fed pureed food had little control over how much food they ate, thus rendering them vulnerable to constipation, and running a risk that they would react by becoming fussy eaters later in life.

She blamed the food industry for convincing parents that they should give children pureed food.

She said: “Sound scientific research and government advice now agree that there is no longer any window of a baby’s development in which they need something more than milk and less than solids.”

http://www.borstvoeding.com/voedselintro…
Many parents worry about babies choking. However, there is good reason to believe that babies are at less risk of choking if they are in control of what goes into their mouth than if they are spoon fed. This is because babies are not capable of intentionally moving food to the back of their throats until after they have learnt to chew. And they do not develop the ability to chew until after they have developed the ability to reach out and grab things. Thus, a very young baby cannot easily put himself at risk because he cannot get the food into his mouth in the first place. On the other hand, the action used to suck food off a spoon tends to take the food straight to the back of the mouth, causing the baby to gag. This means that spoon feeding has its own potential to lead to choking – and makes one wonder about the safety of giving lumpy foods off a spoon.

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Q&A–: what is the time interval in feeding cereal and formula to b baby?
i am feeding my baby with the cereal but i am confused when to give formula to my baby,should it be after 1 or 2 hrs. what will it be? when i can give the gerber carrot etc stage one?

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Answer by *Little Ham*
We started feeding our son Stage 1 foods at 4 months. You have to feed them the same food for 3 days straight, only one time a day to make sure the aren’t any allergies. We never fed him rice cereal from a spoon, he wouldn’t eat it that way! We actually added it right to his bottle ( I know you aren’t supposed to do that because it is a risk for choking) but he is now almost 10 months and hasn’t choked once! Usually we would feed him a dinner such as carrots, and then just fill up his bottle and let him drink as much formula as he wanted afterwards. They know when they’re full, so they will stop drinking when they’re done!

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