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when do you start baby food after starting rice cereal?
We just started my daughter on 1 tbl spoon of rice cereal (2 times a day) on Wed (5 days ago). I read in What to Expect...that you can start a new baby food every couple days...I wanted to wait until every weekend so that we can devote the time to it...but how do you do it? Supplement some baby food for 1 of the rice cereals? Do you only do a tablespoon? Do you decrease the bottles? I don't want to call the dr. for this, but I don't want to push things
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- we just started it slowly and then gradually increased the amount of solids. (like from a few tsps to half a stage1 jar and then to a whole stage 1 jar) Your idea for starting a new food every weekend is good. My son actually drank more after he had baby food, and we mixed rice cereal in with the baby food. I also gave my son a few swallows of water from a bottle after he finished eating to kinda wash out his mouth. Good luck!
- Anytime after the age of 6 months. Never decrease the bottles.
- I'm one of those horrible moms that are old school. I started my daughter on rice cereal in a bottle with breast milk at about 3 weeks. Only a little, but she has always slept through the night. 6-7 hour stretches right when I started that. I started feeding her rice cereal by spoon at about three months and she was on solids by four months. I started with plain rice cereal mixed with breast milk, then mixed in baby food. One food group at a time. Beginning with veggies, then fruits, then dinners when she was on straight baby food. The whole process took about a month. She was eating three "meals" a day on top of breastfeeding by about 5 months and has been a great eater ever since. Don't know if that will help, but that's what worked for me! And I plan to do the same thing with my son. But I did read the signs and my daughter was ready. Some babies might not be eager to eat that well so early. My daughter was a little piggy! :) As far as the amounts, I did the cereal by spoon in the morning at first, then increased it as she wanted it. I did replace the breastfeedings with the morning feeding of cereal if that makes sense.
- Do not decrease the bottles. Solid food does not substitute at this age. Breastmilk or formula should be the main source of nutrition. Slowly introduce, wait at least four days to see if there is a reaction. We did bananas, sweet potatoes and avocado first.
