Introducing cereal

What type of schedule should ds be on with cereal. How often do they eat the cereal. I feel like I am completely clueless.

Introducing cereal

Your ped should have given instructions. Eac Ped seems to do things differently.

My DS started at 4 months - we did rice then oatmeal and I never did barley.

I just mixed up some..never measured. In the beginnign they don't eat much. And we started with one meal a day. So we picked dinner since it was the only meal we were home for.

Re: Introducing cereal

I started DD on rice cereal and only fed her once a day at first. Eventually a larger portion and twice a day. She loved oatmeal and some people choose to start with that.

Re: Introducing cereal

DD just had her 4 mth appt today and the ped said we could begin 1-2 tbsp of cereal once per day and after a few weeks, add a second feeding (am and pm)

She said rice or oatmeal but we will skip rice as it didn't sit well with DS. Even my ped said she skipped rice with both of her kids as well.

Alll that being said, we are waiting until 5-6 months to begin cereal.

Message edited 5/20/2013 4:25:23 PM.

Re: Introducing cereal

Ped had recommended starting with rice, then oatmeal, then barley, giving each cereal a week before starting a new one. We stopped with the rice after a few days bc it constipated DD and haven't given it since.

We started with just a few baby spoonfuls once per day and gradually worked up to a few TBs both morning and evening.

Introducing cereal

We started at 5 months. 1 tbsp at first, mixed with his formula (rice cereal for about a week then oatmeal). He has it 2x a day. Now we're mixing it with fruit and giving more.