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Q&A–: How often do u feed your baby cereal?
I give my baby cereal bottles about 3 times a day and the rest of the day regular formula with no cereal in it. Now he doesn’t want to drink the regular bottle. I also put fruit and veggies in his cereal bottles I don’t feed it to him from the spoon yet. I mean I can’t feed him cereal bottles all day can I? This is my first baby he is 5 months old.
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Answer by Jess
If he is still hungry after a regular bottle, or hungry sooner, it time to add more cereal to his diet!
Answer by Maegz
ツ my advice… feed him with a spooon as soon as possible.. i know a 2 year old who still eats.. EATS meals from a bottle and gags on anything that is solid.. its sad and makes the parent look lazy.. sure a spoon is messy.. but thats what kids are MESSY! he will enjoy it anyways. i never once put vegys in my daughters bottle… cereal is fine at any time and would probably love it warmed up with a little sugar in it. or even stage 1 peaches.
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Answer by randomman
my little girl likes Cheerios, i feed them to all twice a day
Answer by Kathleen R
I feed my little girl cereal milk about once a week when she is behaving.
Try adding honey to the milk.
The same thing happened to me.
Gradually decrease the amount you give him.
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Answer by sleepyhead
Why dont you feed him solids with a spoon? It’s dangerous to feed him out of a bottle as he might choke on it. You might as well since he’s already familiar with it and he’s 5 mos.
To answer your question I have a 6 month old that I feed cereal 2 times a day with a fruit or vegetable it depends. The rest of the time she gets breastmilk. They still need mostly the milk at this age whether it’s breast or formula.
Answer by Hanna’s Mommie
umm I never fed my child cereal let alone gave her a bottle. But just so you know bottles are for Breast MILK/andFormula ONLY, not FOOD, you eat food with spoons and forks. Trust me if you dont stop this habit now you will have serious issues later, if you already dont, you can be causing obesity, and bad eating haits later on down the road.
Answer by Texas Nomad
Good lord, please stop doing that right away. Never put anything besides formula or breastmilk in a bottle. (water and maybe diluted juice when they are a year or older are okay) That is a huge choking hazard, if your baby can’t eat it with a spoon or feed himself with his fingers then he doesn’t eat it at all. Formula ONLY in the bottle, he will eat it when he gets hungry enough. You need to stop the practice of putting other stuff in there cold turkey for his safety.
As for rice cereal…never. It’s the nutritional equivalent of white bread and totally unnecessary at any age.
Answer by bmagdelina
Many doctors will tell you to wait and feed babies solids until 6 months. Although I feel that every child is different. My daughter did not eat anything solid until she was 9 months old. On the other hand my son started eating from the spoon at 4 months old. I never really put cereal in the bottles mostly because it got clogged and my kids just didn’t like it. My advice would be to try feeding them on the spoon. If they take it great if not just continue trying once in a while. I would try about once a week until they were ready. My son was started early because he was constantly hungry. There is really no right or wrong time to start trying if the child is ready they will eat if they aren’t they will reject. But if you don’t try then you will end up with a two year old that wants nothing but a bottle. Good luck , and remember that everyone has a different opinion on when to start feeding babies solid. And no two babies are the same.
Answer by Atreyu’s Mommy
I gave my son cereal twice (I think). It smelled absolutely disgusting and I stopped. He ate cheerios once a day for breakfast for a while, but then we started introducing other table foods for breakfast. If your baby isn’t getting constipated, I guess it is just fine, but very unnecessary. Babies don’t need solids until they are 6 months old. If your baby can’t eat from a spoon, then he is not ready for solids.
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Question–: how do you make a cereal bottle without clogging the nipple?
I mean, I tried these new cereal bottle feeders I found in walgreens, but they didn’t work because the rice cereal kept becoming so runny (I was making it with breast milk, and it literally melts the rice cereal, no matter how thick you make it). I have tried the cross cut nipples, enlarging the existing holes, all different brands, and to no success. The damned thing keeps clogging every time, making my baby suck and suck with no success!! How frustrating!
I keep hearing people talk about giving their babies cereal bottles, and I really want to do this. Doctor said that at 4 months she’s ready. How is a cereal bottle done?? Thanks!
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Answer by Tiffany M
i know that alot of people don’t agree with it but i did it and my pediatrician okayed it first! she isn’t over weight and it helped her so much! i started around 2 months- i put 1 teaspoon of RICE cereal for every ounce in a bottle and mine were made with breast milk as well. i also had to go get those VARIABLE nipples for the bottle that are slightly cut so the cereal can fit through, just make sure that your baby can handle it and not choke. i used the playtex vent-aire bottles with the stage 2 nipples or the playtex drop-ins with the variable nipples that are cross cut. if it still too thick or if it is too much, i would experiment with BARELY cutting a tiny slit in your own nipples to see what works and go from there. with the drop-in ones, i extended to already cut part just a tiny bit and it helped. never had a problem with clogged nipples. i gave my little girl one like this first thing in the morning and one right before bed. she was sleeping through the night at 1 month old (almost 12 hours at a time) and she wasn’t gaining weight like she was supposed to so i gave her this and she went right back on track! i did this until she was 3.5 months when she started getting fed by a spoon with cereal in the day.
Answer by ThrockGrl
you’re not supposed to give them cereal in a bottle at all. how do people not know this??
Answer by shannon s
i use to pinch the nipple and bite small holes til i got the right size
you can also buy stage 3 nipples on a vent air bottle they work great no cutting needed
Answer by pmsemsaas
For my son we used the fastest nipple that we could find and it worked out great. But we also used formula so I am not sure about breast milk.
Answer by Ayawi
four months is old enough to spoon feed cereal. that was when I started my boys. I never put it in a bottle, because I always felt it was more trouble than it was worth. Besides that, feeding with a spoon helps baby develop eating skills, which will make it easier when you start with thicker foods.
Answer by mominohio
at 4 months if the dr said she is ready for cereal the dr probably meant by spoon. Cereal bottles are hard to do and can cause a serious choking risk.
If the dr recommends it because of weight issues (need to gain weight) or reflux issues then you need to get the nipples and try to enlarge the nipple but not to much, takes practice to get it right and you have to replace the nipples more frequently. Usually if a pediatrician recommends cereal bottles they will recommend a nipple/bottle to use and will tell you how much cereal to put in the bottle.
Answer by Renee B
If you want to give your baby cereal, you should not do it in a bottle…try spoon feeding her…make it extremely thin, follow the directions on the cereal box, it will be mostly milk until she gets used to having “solids”. Many people believe that babies tummy’s can’t actually break down the solids yet and that you should wait until 6 months, but it is up to you…I would never put cereal in a bottle though, really the only way to keep it from clogging is to enlarge the hole which can then cause baby to choke. Good luck!
Answer by Kitty1981
i had to take a regular nipple and cut a + in the nipple with scissors (after boiling the scissors to sterilize them.
Answer by Heather
From what I know, it’s not a good idea to give your baby a cereal bottle. But, if you’re going to do it you need to make the nipple hole bigger.
Answer by riteon
Is your doctor a Pediatrician? Our doctor told us not to even consider anything but formula for the first 9 or 10 months of the baby’s life. He said their stomachs are not ready to digest anything but formula or breast milk until they are much older then 4 months.
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it is actually recommended that you don’t even put cereal in a bottle, but that you offer it AFTER a feeding by spoon (or some people even offer it with their finger as an easier way to feed baby).
You should only offer a little bit of cereal. Start weaning the bottles that you add cereal to. Add less and less cereal until you get down to none or a very very small amount. If you stop suddenly baby may have a much harder time with it.
When he starts real solids try to completely wean on rice cereal as it is practically unnecessary anyway.
Good luck!
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i don’t see how it is such a choking risk when they advise it for baby’s with reflux..dr brown’s even makes a nipple for it, it is the ‘y’ nipple….my dd has reflux, so she has had cereal in a bottle many times and she hasn’t choked!! choking means that their airway is blocked and how that would happen with liquid, even with cereal in it is beyong me; i think it is a lot of ppl repeating what someone said or read somewhere…with malpractice sky high already, i don’t think there is a doctor alive that would advise it for reflux if they thought there was a possibility of the baby choking…that said…my dd is eating from a spoon as well, but occasionally when we have been on the go all day and we havent’ had time to get into the food, i will give her rice or even oatmeal cereal in her bottle ( i know, thumbs down)….and if she were to choke i am a RN with training in infant cpr and choking…the heimlich maneuver…but like i said, choking is a blockage of the airway and i can’t see how a liquid can do that…..oh well….gl, hth
Did the doctor specifically tell you to put the cereal in the bottle???? That seems a bit odd to me, our ped told us specifically to never ever give cereal from a bottle because of all the problems it causes but anyhow. If she’s ready for cereal, it really should be given from a spoon. It’s better for the child to be in an upright and seated position when eating solids.
i poked the nipple open more with a pin. my son has severe acid reflux and the rice cereal has helped him from spitting up sooo much. he still spits up but not his whole bottle. thats the only reason why i put it in his bottle for any other reason i wouldn’t
I’ve never heard of a cereal bottle feeder actually but IT IS okay to put cereal in a bottle. That’s what my mom did for me and I plan on doing it for mine. My mom told me she would just mash up the cereal in tiny tiny bits. Small enough where it doesn’t choke the baby obviously. And she said she would make the hole on the nipple just a little bigger but not big enough to where the milk would gush out and make me suffocate or drown.
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But I’m not sure as to what kind of cereal she’d use!
And another thing, how do you spoon feed cereal when the baby has no teeth to chew with? I’m not directing that to you. I’ve never seen a 4 month old with teeth but hey, it probably does happen.
You should really wait longer before giving her cereal, it will decrease odds of allergies to foods. And you should never put food in a bottle, just breast milk or formula.
Don’t make it with hot water, as that cooks’ the cereal too much and it will thicken. Add the milk or juice, and sprinkle small amts. of cereal in, stirring each amount until smooth. Then add the nipple, when it is blended well. Thin or thick, ’til you know how. I was told by doctor to start at three weeks old, as I had a 10 pounder by then.
Yes, babies need cereal with a snack. If Eight-month-olds wake up crying during the night, they need more food during the day and a snack, and give them cereal when they wake up.
Use bags in milk holder, so it collapses’ as he sucks’.
Otherwise, just hand feed, and rinse his mouth afterward, to prevent cavities.
I thought you werent supposed to mix breast milk with cereal but maybe im wrong..
****My pediatrician told me that your not supposed to feed them cereal through the bottle…put it in a bowl…Feed it with a spoon…***
My son’s pediatrician told me the same thing, 4 months. I did just what she instructed. My mother agreed with the doctor and I had no reason to question it, everyone does it.
My son has multiple anaphylactic food allergies. He has a regular pediatric allergist and he is very limited in not only the foods he can eat, but the places that we can go (because of cross contamination and airborne contaminants). His life will never be without complication and it sucks for all of us.
The pediatric allergist told us that feeding a baby solids at 4 months is very very wrong. He said that it’s an area that well intentioned pediatricians don’t understand, and it’s always a risk. His advice to never feed a baby solids before 9 months old, no matter how much interest they show in the food.
Talk to a pediatric allergist before you feed your precious baby cereal. They can confirm what I am trying to say. It would definitely be worth the phone call. I regret every day what i have done.
Please don’t do it. Breastmilk/formula is plenty of nutrition at 4 months old.
Cereal isn’t supposed to go IN bottles unless advised by a Dr for reflux. The only reason Drs will say to put cereal in a bottle is when a baby is too young to be able to get the cereal off of a spoon.
If you’re giving cereal because your baby is old enough then the baby needs to spoon fed. The whole point of cereal (without medical reasons) is to teach the child how to eat with a spoon.
The U.S. is one of the rare countries in the world that push for babies to start eating solids within their first few months of their lives. Majority of the Asian countries, Canada, and Europe start feeding solids to their babies around the 12 month mark.
When the baby is under a year old, their digestive system is not mature enough to breakdown solid foods. This results in possible complications such as developing food allergies and asthma. The U.S. leads all other nations dramatically in food allergies, ADD, childhood obesity, and asthma.
Breast milk is the ultimate nourishment for babies especially, during their first year, just as nature intended it. The ill advice people give regarding cereal feeding to infants is detrimental to their overall health.
I was breastfed by mother throughout the first year and solids were only introduced into my diet when I was almost a year old. I am from India and that is how Indians as well as the majority of the people in the world feed their infants.