Mom s are urged to add a little rice baby cereal and formula to baby s bottle as a way to keep him full and sleep through the night.
Baby rice cereal in formula.
If you are mixing oatmeal cereal in pumped breast milk.
Most pediatricians recommend starting rice baby cereal at about 4 6 months old for baby s first food.
Don t serve it from a bottle.
Serve a small.
Some parents have put rice cereal in their baby s formula bottle as early as six weeks old.
Even gerber the popular baby food manufacturer recommends against putting rice cereal in your baby s bottle.
It is recommended for babies 4 6 months of age.
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.
Only put baby cereal in a bottle if it s recommended by your doctor.
If you mix it too early the enzymes in the breast milk will break down the oatmeal making it ineffective.
Mix the rice cereal and formula.
By the time solid food is being.
Of rice cereal for every 2 oz.
If you are mixing oatmeal cereal in formula.
Mix 1 tablespoon of a single grain iron fortified baby cereal with 4 tablespoons 60 milliliters of breast milk or formula.
For every 1 oz.
If you start with cereal you can mix it with formula breast milk or water.
Pour or spoon desired amount of cereal in bowl.
The thicker texture helps improve chewing and swallowing.
To start the introduction process mix 1 to 2 tablespoons of iron fortified rice cereal with 4 to 6 tablespoons of formula breast milk or water.
Mix 1 tbsp.
Gradually thicken baby cereal by adding less breast milk and formula.
It is best to do it right before your infant will feed.
Serve the rice cereal and formula mixture with a spoon.
It is most effective if done no more than 20 to 30 minutes before your infant.
Of formula or expressed breast milk while the american academy of family physicians recommends 2 to 3 tbsp.
Read the package instructions for preparing the rice cereal.
Traditionally families have offered single grain cereals such as rice cereal first.
Some people mix rice cereal with fruit juice too.
Cereal with 4 5 tbsp.
Of breastmilk or infant formula.
There are a few problems with this recommendation though.
Eating the mixture from a spoon will also keep your baby.
Stir in liquid breastmilk or infant formula to desired consistency.
For example the national diseases information clearinghouse website recommends 1 tbsp.
Baby s first cereal feeding.
However some babies do not seem to be satisfied with just a bottle or do not seem to sleep long enough in the night.
Of formula or expressed breast milk.
Some doctors will recommend it even earlier as a way to help newborns sleep.
