Some people do choose to introduce rice cereal made with breast milk at 4 months fed by spoon.
Baby rice cereal with breastmilk.
In general it is recommended that breastfed babies wait until closer until 6 months to maximize the benefits of breastmilk.
Check to see if the nipple size is appropriate.
Cereal to thicken liquids.
After adding the rice cereal shake the bottle well.
It is best to do it right before your infant will feed.
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.
So it averts binding of the mbm with rice cereal.
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.
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.
To start the introduction process mix 1 to 2 tablespoons of iron fortified rice.
Do not use infant cereal in breast milk.
Breast milk breaks down the cereal and it does not remain thickened.
Do not use regular kitchen spoons.
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.
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.
Amylase is the main polysaccharide digesting enzyme in mbm and it digests starch.
If you are mixing oatmeal cereal in formula.
If you are mixing oatmeal cereal in pumped breast milk.
If you mix it too early the enzymes in the breast milk will break down the oatmeal making it ineffective.
Supplementing with baby bottles.
Use 1 teaspoons of dry infant cereal rice barley oatmeal mixed.
Mix 1 teaspoon of the rice cereal with 4 to 5 teaspoons of breast milk or formula twice a day.
It is most effective if done no more than 20 to 30 minutes before your infant.
Start by serving one or two teaspoons.
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.
Basically rice cereal has no nutritional value it is empty calories.
After several months of only consuming breast milk or formula some babies have difficulty adjusting to solid foods.
Generally speaking do not introduce solid foods until your baby is at least four months old unless your pediatrician says otherwise.
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.
Don t serve it from a bottle.
