Hi all,

I started with cereals yesterday.. its really tough for me...

moms, any tips starting with cereals..???

Luv to lil ones
Suki Veenu replied. Hi Suki - I have started Rohan with Rice and Oatmeal cereal 3 weeks back. He used to love it intially and now he hates rice cereal. So i have started mixing up Rice Cereal with Toor Dal ka pani instead of milk and Oat meal i give in milk and it worked wonders... As he now love his rice cereal... I had to give him daal ka pani so i though what;s harm in mixing with rice cereal.

In 3 days i will start carrots for few days before i move banana or apple...

As far time schedule goes i am still learning my kido...:-))

Love
Veenu RK replied. Hi Suki,

I started with one teaspoon of rice cereal mixed with BM.It should be almost like formula initially as their digestive system is still not used to thick solids.Slowly you increase the amount of rice cereal.Once she is able to eat about a table spoon of rice cereal, introduce oat meal in the evening.While I'm doing this, my baby didn't go to poop for 2 or 3 days.Nurse suggested me to give prune juice and also one vegetable.Right now I'm giving carrot (gerber) and also prune juice once in two or three days.So there is no problem of constipation.I'm yet to try other vegetables like squash etc.I had bad experience with green beans.Therefore, I'm planning to give green veggies later.My baby completed 5 months and 10 days.Her schedule is rice cereal(5 0r 6 teaspoons) at 11am, veggie at 3pm, prune juice at 5pm(not daily), oatmeal (5 or 6 teaspoons) at 7pm. I'm not sure if this is an ideal way to feed her ,but this is what I'm doing.She is drinking BM in between.
I request our other friends on this board to suggest if I need to change anything in my baby's feeding.Suki, hope I have answered your question..BTW I'm also giving her water after every solid feeding.She takes 3 or 4 teaspoons (Nursery water available at walmart).

RK