Start by serving one or two teaspoons.
Baby rice cereal in formula.
Stir in liquid breastmilk or infant formula to desired consistency.
Of formula or expressed breast milk.
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.
It is recommended for babies 4 6 months of age.
Traditionally families have offered single grain cereals such as rice cereal first.
Rice cereal is the first solid that is introduced to your baby.
The thicker texture helps improve chewing and swallowing.
Of rice cereal for every 2 oz.
Some parents have put rice cereal in their baby s formula bottle as early as six weeks old.
Read the package instructions for preparing the rice cereal.
Mix the rice cereal and formula.
Some people mix rice cereal with fruit juice too.
Spoon feeding rice cereal to your baby 1.
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.
It is best to do it right before your infant will feed.
Cereal with 4 5 tbsp.
Eating the mixture from a spoon will also keep your baby.
Even gerber the popular baby food manufacturer recommends against putting rice cereal in your baby s bottle.
Serve the rice cereal and formula mixture with a spoon.
Most pediatricians recommend starting rice baby cereal at about 4 6 months old for baby s first food.
If you start with cereal you can mix it with formula breast milk or water.
Don t serve it from a bottle.
Of breastmilk or infant formula.
It is most effective if done no more than 20 to 30 minutes before your infant.
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.
By the time solid food is being.
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.
Gradually thicken baby cereal by adding less breast milk and formula.
For example the national diseases information clearinghouse website recommends 1 tbsp.
Pour or spoon desired amount of cereal in bowl.
Of formula or expressed breast milk while the american academy of family physicians recommends 2 to 3 tbsp.
Some doctors will recommend it even earlier as a way to help newborns sleep.
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.
If you are mixing oatmeal cereal in pumped breast milk.
For every 1 oz.
Mix 1 tbsp.
Serve a small.
