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When starting your baby on rice cereal, do you replace 1 meal with cereal or make it a bottle and rice combo?

I have started my son on rice cereal, but my mother and mother-in-law have different opinions on it, so I am asking here. Do I replace one meal with the cereal alone or do a bottle and cereal combo? Hearing what any of you do/did would be great too! Thanks!

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8 Responses to “When starting your baby on rice cereal, do you replace 1 meal with cereal or make it a bottle and rice combo?”

  1. blueeyes said :

    i would do what YOU think is best. i would do bottle cereal combo

  2. Mummy to 9&½ mo JAKE said :

    I used to just give my son a bottle of formula first thing in the morning, followed by cereal half an hour or so later.

  3. Kierstn's Mommy! said :

    We just started my daughter on solids, however I skipped the cereal. She started out with stage 1 foods. It took her a few days to really understand that she is supposed to eat the food! I’m sure she honestly couldn’t figure out why I was sticking that stuff in her mouth! Now, I let her eat as much as she wants, then offer her a bottle. We started about a week ago, and just today is the first day she has ate an entire bottle of applesauce! So I suggest definitely offering the bottle after!

  4. Dee said :

    Cereal, or any solids, should absolutely not be replacing a bottle at this stage. Cereal does nto have the calories and nutrients of formula. You should feed him a full formula feed, maybe an ounce or two less than normal and then offer a small amount of cereal, and offer the ounce or two that you didnt feed him after the cereal. Formula is his main source of nutrition until 12 months!

  5. Karen R said :

    When I started my little man on rice cereal i would make it up and feed that to him when he was due for a feed along with a bottle but only half amount to what he would usually would have for instance he has a full bottle so when i feed him solids i would give himonly half bottle as well.

  6. !!Joeys Mommie!! said :

    a cereal bottle combo
    feed the cereal 1st then offer the bottle

  7. Karen F said :

    when your baby is around 3 months old u can put a little rice cereal in its bottle to start out then when they r about 5 and half months old u can start feeding them with a spoon but don’t make the cereal thick but not real running either. my baby baby doctor told me it was ok to do it because sometimes milk was not enough karen f

  8. Mindy W said :

    Solid food should NEVER REPLACE formula or breastmilk until 12 months or older. The cereal should be in addition to a bottle. If the baby won’t finish his usual amount because of the cereal than you need to decrease the amount of cereal. One good way to do it is to feed the solid food AFTER the bottle. That way you know you are nto filling them up on cereal.




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