Generally speaking do not introduce solid foods until your baby is at least four months old unless your pediatrician says otherwise.
Baby rice cereal with breastmilk.
To start the introduction process mix 1 to 2 tablespoons of iron fortified rice.
Mix 1 tablespoon of a single grain iron fortified baby cereal with 4 tablespoons 60 milliliters of breast milk or formula.
Start by serving one or two teaspoons.
Supplementing with baby bottles.
Since formula or breast milk with rice cereal is thicker you might need to use a nipple with a larger hole so your infant can feed more easily.
Mix 1 teaspoon of the rice cereal with 4 to 5 teaspoons of breast milk or formula twice a day.
Use measuring spoons to figure amounts.
If your baby is colicky and fussy at night this could be related to digestion or latent food allergies lulling them to sleep with rice baby cereal is only putting a band aid on the issue.
After several months of only consuming breast milk or formula some babies have difficulty adjusting to solid foods.
So it averts binding of the mbm with rice cereal.
Use 1 teaspoons of dry infant cereal rice barley oatmeal mixed.
When your infant is between four and six months old your pediatrician will give you clearance to begin feeding him rice cereal mixed with breast milk or formula.
The cereal should be very thin and soupy just thick enough to spoon up from the bowl.
Cereal to thicken liquids.
If you have questions talk to your child s doctor.
Don t serve it from a bottle.
Some enzymes are necessary for the function of the breasts and the production of breast milk some enzymes help a baby with digestion and some are essential a child s development.
Some people do choose to introduce rice cereal made with breast milk at 4 months fed by spoon.
And if you re breastfeeding and safely co sleeping with your baby nighttime feedings don t require you to get up and lose a lot of sleep soothing a soothe a crying baby.
It is best to do it right before your infant will feed.
Check to see if the nipple size is appropriate.
Basically rice cereal has no nutritional value it is empty calories.
You could also cut a small x over the hole in the nipple with a pair of sterilized scissors.
Do not use regular kitchen spoons.
In these cases rice cereal is often added to thicken formula or breast milk and is drunk through a bottle with a widened hole in the nipple.
It is most effective if done no more than 20 to 30 minutes before your infant.
In general it is recommended that breastfed babies wait until closer until 6 months to maximize the benefits of breastmilk.
Breast milk breaks down the cereal and it does not remain thickened.
If you mix it too early the enzymes in the breast milk will break down the oatmeal making it ineffective.
Amylase is the main polysaccharide digesting enzyme in mbm and it digests starch.
Instead help your baby sit upright and offer the cereal with a small spoon once or twice a day after a bottle or breast feeding.
If you are mixing oatmeal cereal in formula.
